Video interview explains how DFID is using evidence

Guest post by Qurratulain (Annie) Zaman, INASP

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.