Evidence Spotlight: Working together to champion evidence use in Kenya’s Parliament

Marale Sande, Senior Research and Policy Analyst with the Parliamentary Research Services at the Parliament of Kenya

Evidence Spotlight: Working together to champion evidence use in Kenya’s Parliament

25 October, 2017 Guest Contributor

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Interview with Marale Sande, Senior Research and Policy Analyst with the Parliamentary Research Services at the Parliament of Kenya. Marale works collaboratively with Members of Parliament (MPs) as part of the Evidence Informed Policy Caucus, an informal committee of the House that aims to increase the awareness and uptake of evidence. In this interview, Marale outlines her experience with championing evidence within a parliamentary setting.

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Helping women bridge the gap between research and publications

21 September, 2017 Ruth Bottomley

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Gender & equity

Earlier this year, Senior Programme Manager, Ruth Bottomley joined The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World – in Khartoum. This video shows the launch of the OWSD Sudan National Chapter and the workshop on Bridging the Gap between Research and Publications.

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Evidence in African parliaments: reflections on our new paper

31 August, 2017 Emily Hayter

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Evidence for policy

Author: Emily Hayter, Programme Manager, Evidence-Informed Policy Making Team, INASP Information is critical to holding governments to account. None of...

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Ten Videos on Evidence and Policy

29 March, 2017 Emily Hayter

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Evidence for policy

Here are a few of our favourite videos featuring researchers, policymakers and practitioners all over the world discussing key issues...

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21 years of climate discussions

2 December, 2015 Guest Contributor

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Evidence for policy

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.

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Building capacity of Africa’s library consortia

6 August, 2015 Jonathan Harle

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General, Higher education & learning, Information access

Jon Harle reports on the recent library consortia meeting in Addis Ababa about building strong foundations for research to deliver...

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