Bridging Research and Policy in Development
Evidence and the change process
This is a crucial book for international development researchers who want the lessons of their research converted into changes in government and aid agency policy.
International policy making is extremely complex and little studied. This book reviews what we do already know and provides a conceptual framework for future research. Through four case studies, ranging from local to international and from theory to practice, it explores the vital importance of cultures and structures, people, places and timing.
International development work attracts some of the most intelligent entrants to the world of public service, young people who want their commitment to the shaping of a better world to be reflected in the policies of the ministries and agencies they have joined. This book will help to explain to those young people, and to their leaders in the international development community, how to bring about the changes in policy that will promote a true pro-poor development, based on the evidence of what works.
Published: 2005
Pages: 228
eBook: 9781780444598
Paperback: 9781853396038
International policy making is extremely complex and little studied. This book reviews what we do already know and provides a conceptual framework for future research. Through four case studies, ranging from local to international and from theory to practice, it explores the vital importance of cultures and structures, people, places and timing.
International development work attracts some of the most intelligent entrants to the world of public service, young people who want their commitment to the shaping of a better world to be reflected in the policies of the ministries and agencies they have joined. This book will help to explain to those young people, and to their leaders in the international development community, how to bring about the changes in policy that will promote a true pro-poor development, based on the evidence of what works.
| Prelims (Contents, List of boxes, figures and tables, About the authors, Foreword by Simon Maxwell, Preface, List of acronyms) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| PART I: BACKGROUND AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | |||
| 1. Research and policy in international development: introduction | |||
| Julius Court, Ingie Hovland, John Young | |||
| 2. Context, evidence, links: a conceptual framework for understanding research–policy processes | |||
| Emma Crewe, Ingie Hovland, John Young | |||
| PART II: CASE STUDIES | |||
| 3. The PRSP initiative: multilateral policy change and the role of research | |||
| Karin Christiansen, Ingie Hovland | |||
| 4. How the Sphere Project came into being: a case study of policy making in the humanitarian-aid sector and the relative influence of research | |||
| Margie Buchanan-Smith | |||
| 5. Animal healthcare in Kenya: the road to community-based animal health service delivery | |||
| John Young, Julius Kajume, Jacob Wanyama | |||
| 6. Sustainable livelihoods: a case study of the evolution of DFID policy | |||
| William Solesbury | |||
| PART III: SYNTHESIS AND CONCLUSION | |||
| 7. Crosscutting issues and implications: promoting more informed international development policy | |||
| Julius Court, Ingie Hovland, John Young | |||
| End Matter (Footnotes, Bibliography, Index) |
Julius Court
Julius Court is a Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute and on the Council of the Development Studies Association of the UK and Ireland.
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