![Using Evidence in Policy and Practice: Lessons from Africa](http://img.images-bn.com/static/redesign/srcs/images/grey-box.png?v11.9.4)
Using Evidence in Policy and Practice: Lessons from Africa
280![Using Evidence in Policy and Practice: Lessons from Africa](http://img.images-bn.com/static/redesign/srcs/images/grey-box.png?v11.9.4)
Using Evidence in Policy and Practice: Lessons from Africa
280Paperback
-
PICK UP IN STORECheck Availability at Nearby Stores
Available within 2 business hours
Related collections and offers
Overview
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
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780367440077 |
---|---|
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 06/18/2020 |
Series: | Rethinking Development |
Pages: | 280 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Mine Pabari, Visiting Research Fellow, CLEAR Anglophone Africa, Kenya.
Table of Contents
List of figures ix
List of tables x
List of boxes xi
List of contributors xii
Foreword by Prime Minister of the. Republic of Uganda xvi
Foreword Professor Paul Cairney, Stirling University xvii
Acknowledgements xix
List of abbreviations xxi
1 Introduction to the book Ian Goldman Mine Pabari 1
2 An introduction to evidence-informed policy and practice in Africa Ian Goldman Mine Pabari 13
3 Using evidence in Africa: a framework to assess what works, how and why Laurenz Langer Vanesa Weyrauch 34
4 Mere compliance or learning - M&E culture in the public service of Benin, Uganda and South Africa Ian Goldman Wole Olaleye Stanley Sixolile Ntakumba Mokgoropo Makgaba Cara Waller 54
5 Using evaluations to inform policy and practice in a government department: the case of the Department of Basic Education in South Africa Nedson Pophiwa Carol Nuga Deliwe Jabulani Mathe Stephen Taylor 75
6 Use of evidence in a complex social programme: case of an evaluation of the state's response to violence against women and children in South Africa Matodzi M. Amisi Thabani Buthelezi Siza Magangoe 92
7 The influence of local ownership and politics of the use of evaluations in policy making: the case of the public procurement evaluation in Uganda Ismael Kawooya Timothy Lubanga Abdul Muwanika Edwin Muhumuza Rhona Mijumbi-Deve 115
8 Rapidly responding to policy queries with evidence: learning from Rapid Response Services in Uganda Ismael Kawooya Isaac Ddumba Edward Kayongo Rhona Mijumbi-Deve 133
9 The potential and the challenges of evaluations to positively influence reforms: working with producers in the Benin agricultural sector Bonaventure Kouakanou Dossa Aguemon Marius S. Aina Aijdoulaye Gounou Emmanuel M. David-Gnahoui 152
10 Parliament and public participation in Kenya: the case of the Wildlife Conservation and Management Act 2013 Mine Pabari Yemeserach Tessema Amina Abdalla Judi Wakhungu Ahmed Hassan Odhowa Ali Kaka 169
11 The contribution of civil society generated evidence to the improvement of sanitation services in Ghana Laila Smith Dede Bedu-Addo Mohammed Awal Anthony Mensah 188
12 Using evidence for tobacco control in West Africa Papa Yona Boubacar Mane Abdoulaye Diagne Salifou Tiemtore 206
13 Lessons for using evidence in policy and practice Ian Goldman Mine Pabari 224
Index 242