Knowledge to Policy: Making the Most of Development Research - Softcover

Carden, Fred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8178299305 ISBN 13: 9788178299303

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

Does research influence public policy and decision-making, and if so, how? This long debated question continues to be the subject of discussions among scholars, researchers and the international community of development agencies, donors and practitioners. For development agencies and donors, responses to this debate contribute to the larger question of how development aid affects public policies in the South. In over 35 years of supporting research in the South, Canada's International Development Research Centre has gained considerable experience in fostering research-policy links and carried out a learning-oriented evaluation to observe whether and how the research it was supporting was influencing public policy and decision-making.

Knowledge to Policy: Making the Most of Development Research encapsulates results of the evaluation and presents the key findings and summaries of 22 case studies from Asia, Africa and Latin America. It also addresses the methodology used in a reader-friendly, journalistic style, giving the reader a deeper grasp and understanding of the approaches, contexts, relationships and events. No other research-for-development publication has assessed such a wide variety of case studies of experiences from the developing world.

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Review:

The book under review is a well-documented study that helps researchers to lead their findings to policy... It will be useful to social scientists desirous of reaching policy, donor agencies to fund proper policy-related research and the administrators.

(Current Science)

The author examines the connect between research and public policy...Also included is sound advice on how to influence policy, manage research and politics etc. The book is an easy read.

(Civil Society)

This book will be useful to academics, researchers and students of political science, public administration, development studies and international affairs: professionals in donor and development organizations worldwide: policy and decision makers in government and international arenas: and development agencies.

(Journal of Rural Development)

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 8178299305
• ISBN 13: 9788178299303
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236