On 20 October 2015, the Zimbabwe Evidence Informed Policy Network
(ZeipNET) is partnering with the United States (US) Embassy Public
Affairs Section to host a knowledge café on "Evidence Informed
Policymaking in Zimbabwe: Challenges, Successes and Opportunities".
The
event will combine ZeipNET’s Knowledge Café series and the US Embassy’s
Food for Thought series. Both platforms share a common goal of creating
an enabling environment for engaging citizens, media, civil society and
government departments on key national topical issues.
The
objective of this latest knowledge café (KC) is to demystify and reflect
on the concept of EIPM and to highlight challenges and opportunities
for the use of evidence in Zimbabwe’s policy formulation,
implementation, monitoring and review. Of particular note, the KC seeks
to obtain insight into what we can do to promote the routine use of
evidence in policy making.
Click to read more
Source: INASP
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Evidence-informed policy making in Zimbabwe: Challenges, Successes and Opportunities
Evidence-informed policy making (EIPM) is critical to ensuring good public policies. In Zimbabwe, EIPM is still in its infancy, but is starting to make progress. Now is a good time to start asking: what is Zimbabwe doing well in this area? What are the challenges to using evidence in policymaking? And what are the opportunities to see evidence become a routine part of Zimbabwe’s policymaking processes?
On 20 October 2015, the Zimbabwe Evidence Informed Policy Network (ZeipNET) is partnering with the United States (US) Embassy Public Affairs Section to host a knowledge café on “Evidence Informed Policymaking in Zimbabwe: Challenges, Successes and Opportunities”. The event will combine ZeipNET’s Knowledge Café series and the US Embassy’s Food for Thought series. Both platforms share a common goal of creating an enabling environment for engaging citizens, media, civil society and government departments on key national topical issues. Click to read more
Source: INASP Blog
Monday, October 19, 2015
EIPM training Intervention: Reviewing Parliament’s Information Support System as preparatory work
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| Parliament of Ghana |
Background
Having trialed VakaYiko’s Evidence-Informed Policy Making (EIPM) course for Civil Servants at the Civil Service Training Centre (CSTC) earlier this year in Accra, information support staff at the Parliamentary Service of Ghana was next on the radar of project administrators. A review exercise was conducted to gain insight of the information support system prevalent at the Legislature. These are presented in this piece, but also includes an overview of VakaYiko training and the rational for EIPM training in Parliament.
Having trialed VakaYiko’s Evidence-Informed Policy Making (EIPM) course for Civil Servants at the Civil Service Training Centre (CSTC) earlier this year in Accra, information support staff at the Parliamentary Service of Ghana was next on the radar of project administrators. A review exercise was conducted to gain insight of the information support system prevalent at the Legislature. These are presented in this piece, but also includes an overview of VakaYiko training and the rational for EIPM training in Parliament.
VakaYiko Training in EIPM
The VakaYiko EIPM Course is aimed at mid-level civil servants involved in accessing, synthesizing and communicating evidence to policymakers in resource-constrained settings. This includes researchers, policy analysts, library and ICT staff, and others.
Click here to read more The VakaYiko EIPM Course is aimed at mid-level civil servants involved in accessing, synthesizing and communicating evidence to policymakers in resource-constrained settings. This includes researchers, policy analysts, library and ICT staff, and others.
Video interview explains how DFID is using evidence
Guest post by Qurratulain (Annie) Zaman, INASP
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Qurratulain Zaman is Communications Officer at INASP, an international development charity working with a global network of partners to improve access, production and use of research information and knowledge, so that countries are equipped to solve their development challenges.
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| Ed Barney, Research Uptake Manager, DFID, UK |
GINKS, one of the partners in the INASP-led
VakaYiko Consortium, recently published some ‘voices’ in the form of videos
recorded during the recent VakaYiko Consortium meeting in Accra, Ghana.
In the first video,
Ed Barney, Research Uptake Manager at the UK’s Department for International
Development (DFID), talks about evidence-informed policy making (EIPM)
within DFID. “Ours is an organization with more than 3,000 staff based in 28
countries and it is quite a challenge to embed a culture of EIPM,” he says.
To help achieve this goal, DFID is building
up its supply of research information; as Ed observes, if you can’t access it
then you can’t use it. DFID is building information systems to provide easy
access to research, to improve its own portfolio and communications to the rest
of the organization. And to also change the products they used to provide as
evidence to its decision makers. Click here to read more
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Qurratulain Zaman is Communications Officer at INASP, an international development charity working with a global network of partners to improve access, production and use of research information and knowledge, so that countries are equipped to solve their development challenges.
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