Using Evidence in Policy and Practice : Lessons from Africa

Ian Goldman

ISBN 10: 0367440121 / ISBN 13: 9780367440121

Published by Routledge, 2020

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book asks how governments in Africa can use evidence to improve their policies and programmes. It will be perfect for policy-makers, practitioners in government and civil society, researchers and academics with an interest in how evidence is used to support policy making in Africa.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Using Evidence in Policy and Practice : Lessons from Africa
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367440121
• ISBN 13: 9780367440121
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 240W x 161H x 20D millimeters 240 millimeters width by 161 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 590 grams

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Synopsis

This book asks how governments in Africa can use evidence to improve their policies and programmes, and ultimately, to achieve positive change for their citizens. Looking at different evidence sources across a range of contexts, the book brings policy makers and researchers together to uncover what does and doesn’t work and why.

Case studies are drawn from five countries and the ECOWAS (west African) region, and a range of sectors from education, wildlife, sanitation, through to government procurement processes. The book is supported by a range of policy briefs and videos intended to be both practical and critically rigorous. It uses evidence sources such as evaluations, research synthesis and citizen engagement to show how these cases succeeded in informing policy and practice. The voices of policy makers are key to the book, ensuring that the examples deployed are useful to practitioners and researchers alike.

This innovative book will be perfect for policy makers, practitioners in government and civil society, and researchers and academics with an interest in how evidence can be used to support policy making in Africa.

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003007043, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

About the Author

Ian Goldman, Advisor on Evaluation and Evidence Systems, CLEAR Anglophone Africa; Adjunct Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Mine Pabari, Visiting Research Fellow, CLEAR Anglophone Africa, Kenya.