Practical tools to support evidence use in policy-making – Emily Hayter
Article collating practical resources on evidence in policymaking – Emily Hayter, On Think Tanks
Article collating practical resources on evidence in policymaking – Emily Hayter, On Think Tanks
Mathieu Ouimet is a professor in Political Science at Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada. For the next five years, he will be leading the new International Francophone Science Advice Network (RFICS).
The Global Young Academy also maintain a library of resources relevant to evidence-into-policy. There platform is intended to be an initial entry point for Early-Career Researchers into Scientific Advice literature and discussions.
During September 2022, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published the three external expert reports that assess the science-for-policy ecosystems of France, Greece, and Portugal in their local language, after having been published some of them in English a few months ago.
In principle, the application of available scientific evidence to policy making should improve its quality. As normative values and political judgements often also play a key role in decision making, this implies that evidence informs policy instead of determining it. In this context, the subject of the following study is the role of evidence in…
While calls for institutionalization of evidence-informed policy-making (EIP) have become stronger in recent years, there is a paucity of methods that governments and organizational knowledge brokers can use to sustain and integrate EIP as part of mainstream health policy-making. The objective of this paper was to conduct a knowledge synthesis of the published and grey…
Blog article recommending the use of the African Evaluation Database (AfrED), an evidence database meant to make evidence-informed policy easily creatable.
Abstract: Evaluating the potential impacts of each policy on all sustainability dimensions (economic, social and environmental), as captured in the UN SDGs and their targets, requires system thinking and shifting away from single disciplinary projects towards multi- and inter- disciplinary approaches that recognize complexities and acknowledge uncertainties. Modelling is an essential tool to increase the…
Abstract:The broad scope and complexity of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) constitute a new challenge for policy. The identification of effective implementation strategies would need to be supported by coordinated policies that take into account the multiple relationships existing between the different dimensions of sustainability. This report proposes an original method to identify and deal…
An analysis of the potential of SEMs (systematic evidence maps) for chemical policy and risk management
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