Background Coproduction, a collaborative model of research that includes stakeholders in
the research process, has been widely advocated as a means of facilitating research use …

Evidence plays a growing role in public administration worldwide. We analyze the
perceptions of policy actors, using Q methodology and a structured questionnaire, which …

As readers of Evidence and Policy will know, the use of evidence in policy and practice is
both a complex process and a complex outcome, affected by a wide range of factors and …

For many years, researchers have advocated for greater research impact on policy. This
advocacy has often, in an attempt to be helpful, taken the form of specifying preferred types …

This chapter presents an analytical framework for investigating the effectiveness of
interventions aiming to support the use of evidence in policy and practice evidence-informed …

Background This article shares lessons from four case studies, documenting experiences of
evidence use in different public policies in South Africa, Kenya, Ghana and the Economic …

Knowledge Management (KM) has become an established and professional practice
through the development of core concepts, norms and standards by practitioners and …

The 'evidence for development'community aims to produce research that is useful and used
to address issues of poverty and inequality, largely in low-and middle-income countries …

ABSTRACT The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) function can assist governments in
evaluating the performance of their programmes through the identification of those factors …

BackgroundThe ontology of science-policy-practice interface and related interventions to
ensure that evidence is used in social, economic and environmental policy development …