This study responds to the lack of information on the bamboo value chain to support evidence-based policy making. Based on an extensive desk review and an intensive field study, we tracked the production, marketing and end-use of bamboo. The study found that over the last four decades, the...
This study responds to the lack of information on the bamboo value chain to support evidence-based policy making. Based on an extensive desk review and an intensive field study, we tracked the production, marketing and end-use of bamboo. The study found that over the last four decades, the...
"Evidence-based policymaking" is the latest trend in expert government. The appeal is obvious: Who, after all, could be against evidence? Most EBP initiatives seem eminently sensible, testing a plausible policy under conditions that should provide meaningful information about its effectiveness. So it...
Evidence-based Policy Making: Its Significance & Role Economy, Culture & History Japan Spotlight BimonthlyYu Uchiyama
semi-structured interviews conducted with 14 representatives of one School Sport Partnership (SSP) in North West England, this paper examines several aspects of the policy and practice of the Partnership within a policy climate characterized by a preference for evidence-based policy making and practice...
By way of a critical examination of two key consultant reports underlying the NSW municipal mergers, we show that the failure of this programme to achieve its intended aims is due in large measure to the nature of the externalised advice on which it was based and the manner in which that...
policy6. Recommendations may be made on an ad hoc basis, may be based on relationships between certain researchers and policymakers, and may fail to factor in an appropriate level of uncertainty7,8,9. This is further complicated by the sheer volume and heterogeneity of evidence, making ...
The paper draws on lessons learnt in using PSM and argues that, in the development of evidence-based policy, PSM is a real alternative to more traditional experimental methods, such as Random Assignment. However, it demonstrates that PSM is extremely challenging to implement, and that there are...
Not only are Ministers open to evidence, but there is an institutional grounding for evidence-based policy in government. Meanwhile, the creation of devolved institutions has created new sites in the UK for evidence-based policy-making, despite the political tensions between UK and devolved ...
based on this premise that Dawad and Veenstra [] argued that as researchers strive to develop the means to obtain timely information on health system impacts, policymakers need to be carried along to enable them become skilled at translating this information into appropriate action, to avoid ...