Langer, L;
Stewart, R;
Erasmus, Y;
de Wet, T;
(2015)
Walking the last mile on the long road to evidence-informed development: building capacity to use research evidence.
Journal of Development Effectiveness
, 7
(4)
pp. 462-470.
10.1080/19439342.2015.1095783.
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Abstract
The systematic application of rigorous evidence to inform the design and implementation of development policies and programmes has the potential to positively influence development outcomes. To achieve such evidence-informed development, a process of generating, transmitting, and using high-quality, policy-relevant evidence of development effectiveness is required. This article focuses on the final step in this casual chain – the use of evidence by national development policymakers. It proposes a people- and demandfocused approach to capacity building for the use of research evidence by policymakers. This support in building personal as well as team capacity and demand is assumed to encourage a growing institutionalisation of evidence use. The article integrates these capacity-building efforts into the wider theory of change for evidence-informed development, highlighting the importance of effective mechanisms to encourage research use in order to achieve the objective of improving lives through research evidence.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Walking the last mile on the long road to evidence-informed development: building capacity to use research evidence |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/19439342.2015.1095783 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2015.1095783 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecom mons.org/Licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Evidence-informed development; capacity building; evidence use; theory of change; development effectiveness |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10043603 |
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