We are trying to support policy-makers in self-evaluating a process of evidence synthesis for policy making. They would like to do 'case studies' or something similar in their own countries to evaluate the experience - what worked, what didn't, lessons learned, etc. but do not have the time/capacity to do in depth qualitative evaluations. Any ideas of validated approaches to something like a case study or process evaluation that can be done by non-researchers would be much appreciated!
The Overseas Development Institute has conducted much work with researchers, organizations, and governments to improve the integration of knowledge and research-based evidence into policy-making: its publications on research and policy in development are at https://www.odi.org/our-work/programmes/research-and-policy-development.
ROMA, to name but one, is an approach to improving policy engagement processes and so influence change. It comprises a suite of tools that any organization can use at any stage in their policy engagement process to improve how they diagnose the problem, understand the types of impact their work could have on policy-making, set realistic objectives for policy influence, develop a plan to achieve those objectives, monitor and learn from the progress they are making, and reflect the learning back into their work. Details of ROMA are at https://www.odi.org/features/roma/home.
Thanks both. Olivier Serrat - I had looked at the RAPID case studies from the ROMA site but didn't realise there were tools to self-evaluate the process of policy making, in addition to guiding the policy-making process itself. I will take a closer look.
Many thanks Ben Levin
. Indeed the work of Lavis and the McMaster Health Forum is what guided the process of developing an evidence brief for policy, but we are now interested in evaluating the countries' experience with that process. As far as I know the Forum doesn't have tools for evaluating this process...but I will take another look! I think some adaptation of ODI's ROMA M&E tools, as mentioned by Olivier Serrat , might be the answer.- Badges
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