‘Reading organizations’: a new diagnostic tool to improve knowledge to policy systems

‘Reading organizations’: a new diagnostic tool to improve knowledge to policy systems

Clara Richards, Senior Programme Manager, Evidence-Informed Policy Making Team, INASP introduces a series of posts on new approaches for organizational...

Decolonising development: power dynamics in the knowledge sector

Emily Hayter discusses how to ensure research evidence is considered as part of policy making and the role this can play in decolonizing development.

Using evidence to mainstream gender in policy making

Gender Centre for Research and Training running a workshop in training to policymakers on mainstreaming gender in development policies and...

Spotlight: Evidence for gender policy at regional level in Ghana

In April 2015, Thywill Eyra Kpe participated in the first VakaYiko evidence-informed policy making course to be run by Ghana’s Civil Service Training Centre. At that time, she was posted in the Volta Region of the country but she has since moved to the Central Region as the Regional Director for the Department of Gender, under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection. In this interview, she discusses gender, evidence and regional policy in Ghana.

21 years of climate discussions

What sort of deal will the Paris meeting agree to? Will it be legally binding? Ultimately, these questions place great hopes in the Paris talks but it remains to be seen if these hopes will come to pass... Guest blog post by Winnie Khaemba of the African Center for the Technology Studies, which presented at COP21 about work funded by a VakaYiko grant to bring together researchers and policymakers to discuss the development of Kenya's climate-change bill.

Climate-change science roundtables support open dialogue for stakeholders and policy makers in Kenya

Climate-change science roundtables support open dialogue for stakeholders and policy makers in Kenya

This is a guest post from Winnie Khaemba, Research Fellow at INASP partner, the African Centre for Technology Studies, about...

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