18 November 2021
Gain the skills and knowledge to shape policy with evidence more effectively.
There is increasing pressure on government officials, research programmes and NGOs to make better use of evidence for the production of viable policy options. Influencing decision makers with evidence and contributing to policy formulation requires an explicit focus on power and politics in highly complex policy environments.
You will join research programme managers, government officials and policy advocates to explore what we mean by evidence, whose knowledge really counts and how you can more effectively engage and shape policy with evidence. You will acquire conceptually rigorous tools for analysing policy context, identifying and assessing policy relevant research and framing it for policy. The course attracts a diverse range of evidence producers and users, advisors and advocates, which provides you with a unique opportunity to share learning and reflect on your own organisational context and how to make better use of research.
Unfortunately we are unable to offer scholarships for this course.
To equip you with the concepts, skills and competencies required to operate effectively at the interface between policy and research. To enable you to design achievable plans to produce, review and communicate research and to enhance your capacity to deliver rigorous compelling evidence-based policy offers.
The programme is ideally suited to those leading policy and research in their organisation or programme who are seeking to enhance their evidence literacy and policy engagement capacity to become more effective advocates for social change.
Whether your key interests relate to understanding policy processes in a particular context, developing proposal winning evidence uptake strategies, or adapting to fast-changing demands for research, we will help you locate your work in relation to the theory and latest trends in knowledge for development.
You will join an international cohort of policy and evidence innovators from governments, development agencies, charities, social enterprises and research organisations, to share learning and gain new insights into improving policy processes through better use of evidence.
Previous clients include: Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Nigeria; Ministry of Public Works, Chile; Ministry of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development, Mexico; Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology; African Population and Health Research Centre; Oxfam Novib; Rainforest Alliance; UNDP; UNICEF; International Growth Centre; Irish Aid; Foreign and Commonwealth and Development Office, UK; Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy, UK; GIZ; Queen Rania Foundation; Save the Children; Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; International Water Management Institute; International Livestock Research Institute; International Committee of the Red Cross; Haiti Impact Group, Open Doors International; Water Aid.
Our online programme combines lectures, peer learning webinars, group work, and presentations. Through the course, you will develop a framework for strengthening evidence-informed policy and practice focused around specific aspects of evidence literacy and adaptive policy engagement.
A pre-course induction, to introduce the digital learning platform and help you with any technical queries, will take place on Wednesday 14 September.
The course will run over five weeks starting on Tuesday 20 September and finishing on Thursday 20 October 2022.
It will require six to eight hours of your time per week. This will consist of a mix of lectures and live webinars, small group sessions, facilitated group work and self-directed learning.
The course has been designed to allow you to work as flexibly as possible but approximately 2.5 hours per week will be made up of scheduled sessions at fixed times. Webinars and study groups will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 12:00 and 14:30pm UK GMT. You will be assigned a course facilitator and to a small study group and be able to keep the conversation going via a dedicated online channel throughout the course. Pre-recorded lectures, presentations and reading materials, along with a comprehensive workbook, will be made available in advance.
The timing of sessions will be confirmed and agreed with participants once registration has closed. Whilst we will try to accommodate participants needs and adjust to take account of different time zones, it may not be possible to accommodate everyone so some flexibility will be required.
After completing this course you will be able to:
Watch a lecture from this course delivered by IDS Research Fellow, Professor John Gaventa.
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