How can development organizations improve their use of evidence?
Integrating evidence into day-to-day operations remains a challenge for many development organisations. In a policy brief, NADEL's Kimon Schneider identifies a set of institutional measures that facilitate evidence use in decision-making.
Development organizations are under pressure to learn from and use the growing body of evidence in order to deliver aid that works. Many have started fostering an evidence-orientation in their strategies, policies and operational practices. However, these commendable efforts often underestimate the institutional challenges organizations face when trying to integrate evidence into their daily business.
In a policy brief, Kimon Schneider argues that organization leadership should take full responsibility for strengthening knowledge management to address these challenges. A set of institutional measures, including applying evidence principles during project selection and approval, hiring cross-culturally trained knowledge translators and setting up a management approach connecting evidence mobilizers and policy-makers, can facilitate evidence use in decision-making.
DownloadPolicy brief on how to use evidence (PDF, 322 KB)
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DownloadPolicy brief on what is evidence (PDF, 200 KB)