This article is a reflection by LIRNEasia, a thinktank working in the developing Asia Pacific, on factors enabling and hindering its ability to influence policy during two separate but related crises in Sri Lanka: the Covid-19 pandemic and the fully fledged economic collapse that the country underwent in 2022. The article discusses LIRNEasia’s readiness and ability to respond to the unprecedented situation of crisis in the country it is headquartered in and where most of its staff are located. We detail the specific actions LIRNEasia took during each crisis in terms of research (both new and repurposed) and dissemination of research in order to frame debates and influence policy.
{"title":"Policy Influence in Crisis: Reflections from a Southern Thinktank","authors":"Helani Galpaya, Gayani Hurulle, David Gunawardana","doi":"10.19088/1968-2023.133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19088/1968-2023.133","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a reflection by LIRNEasia, a thinktank working in the developing Asia Pacific, on factors enabling and hindering its ability to influence policy during two separate but related crises in Sri Lanka: the Covid-19 pandemic and the fully fledged economic collapse that the country underwent in 2022. The article discusses LIRNEasia’s readiness and ability to respond to the unprecedented situation of crisis in the country it is headquartered in and where most of its staff are located. We detail the specific actions LIRNEasia took during each crisis in terms of research (both new and repurposed) and dissemination of research in order to frame debates and influence policy.","PeriodicalId":47532,"journal":{"name":"Ids Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135412931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jennifer Cyr, Matías Bianchi, Ignacio F. Lara, Florencia Coda
Colabora.Lat es un proyecto que examina la promesa y la utilidad de la colaboración para elaborar mejores políticas públicas en respuesta a problemas dinámicos y complejos como la pandemia de Covid-19. En última instancia, además de ser un proyecto sobre colaboración, descubrimos que el desarrollo del proyecto en sí fluía mejor si trabajábamos con nuestros socios de forma colaborativa. En este artículo, identificamos cuatro lecciones que aprendimos al intentar supervisar un proyecto sobre colaboración de una forma más colaborativa. Estas lecciones deberían ser aplicables a cualquier contexto que, como una pandemia, sea de carácter inestable y dinámico.
{"title":"(Re)pensar un modelo de investigación colaborativa después del Covid-19: presentación de Colabora.Lat","authors":"Jennifer Cyr, Matías Bianchi, Ignacio F. Lara, Florencia Coda","doi":"10.19088/1968-2023.141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19088/1968-2023.141","url":null,"abstract":"Colabora.Lat es un proyecto que examina la promesa y la utilidad de la colaboración para elaborar mejores políticas públicas en respuesta a problemas dinámicos y complejos como la pandemia de Covid-19. En última instancia, además de ser un proyecto sobre colaboración, descubrimos que el desarrollo del proyecto en sí fluía mejor si trabajábamos con nuestros socios de forma colaborativa. En este artículo, identificamos cuatro lecciones que aprendimos al intentar supervisar un proyecto sobre colaboración de una forma más colaborativa. Estas lecciones deberían ser aplicables a cualquier contexto que, como una pandemia, sea de carácter inestable y dinámico.","PeriodicalId":47532,"journal":{"name":"Ids Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135368645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jennifer Cyr, Matías Bianchi, Ignacio F. Lara, Florencia Coda
Colabora.Lat is a project that examines the promise and the utility of collaboration for crafting better public policy in response to dynamic, complex problems such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Ultimately, in addition to being a project on collaboration, we found that the project itself was best carried out with our partners in a collaborative way. In this article, we identify four lessons that we learned as we sought to oversee a project on collaboration in a more collaborative way. These lessons should be applicable to any context that, like a pandemic, is unstable and dynamic in nature.
{"title":"(Re-)Thinking a Collaborative Research Model After Covid-19: Introducing Colabora.Lat","authors":"Jennifer Cyr, Matías Bianchi, Ignacio F. Lara, Florencia Coda","doi":"10.19088/1968-2023.140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19088/1968-2023.140","url":null,"abstract":"Colabora.Lat is a project that examines the promise and the utility of collaboration for crafting better public policy in response to dynamic, complex problems such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Ultimately, in addition to being a project on collaboration, we found that the project itself was best carried out with our partners in a collaborative way. In this article, we identify four lessons that we learned as we sought to oversee a project on collaboration in a more collaborative way. These lessons should be applicable to any context that, like a pandemic, is unstable and dynamic in nature.","PeriodicalId":47532,"journal":{"name":"Ids Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135411841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ramos E. Mabugu, Hélène Maisonnave, Martin Henseler, Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu, Albert Makochekanwa
This article presents lessons on transcendence, from research on the socioeconomic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic to policy, using experiences from Zimbabwe. The case study parallels literature on knowledge translation that suggests that the challenge of evidence-informed policy is more a problem of evidence production than evidence translation. The positioning, influence, and leverage of the research team was predominantly built on a platform of personal relationship legacies, academic legitimacy, and networks. The data and model co-produced with state actors could influence policy decisions and behaviours because they were designed with and for policymakers to assist with policy decisions. The results had direct implications for Covid-19 response measures, informing policymakers on what the impact on different groups is likely to be and indicating what policy measures could do to address impacts. Knowledge co‑production also proved pivotal in reducing some of the concerns around the limitations of risk‑based modelling in a crisis.
{"title":"Co-Modelling for Relief and Recovery from the Covid-19 Crisis in Zimbabwe","authors":"Ramos E. Mabugu, Hélène Maisonnave, Martin Henseler, Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu, Albert Makochekanwa","doi":"10.19088/1968-2023.131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19088/1968-2023.131","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents lessons on transcendence, from research on the socioeconomic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic to policy, using experiences from Zimbabwe. The case study parallels literature on knowledge translation that suggests that the challenge of evidence-informed policy is more a problem of evidence production than evidence translation. The positioning, influence, and leverage of the research team was predominantly built on a platform of personal relationship legacies, academic legitimacy, and networks. The data and model co-produced with state actors could influence policy decisions and behaviours because they were designed with and for policymakers to assist with policy decisions. The results had direct implications for Covid-19 response measures, informing policymakers on what the impact on different groups is likely to be and indicating what policy measures could do to address impacts. Knowledge co‑production also proved pivotal in reducing some of the concerns around the limitations of risk‑based modelling in a crisis.","PeriodicalId":47532,"journal":{"name":"Ids Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135411854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
يتناول هذا المقال الفرص والتحديات التي تواجه عملية إنتاج المعرفة وسن السياسات القائمة على الأدلة، والهادفة إلى إرساء نظم حماية إجتماعية أكثر شمولية وعدالة في المنطقة العربية. ويستند المقال إلى تجارب الباحثين/ات والناشطين/ات بعد جائحة كوفيد-19، ويناقش التحديات التي واجهوها خلال تلك الفترة. كما يتعمّق في الأسباب الجذرية لهذه التحديات والمرتبطة بعمليات جمع البيانات وتحليلها وربطها بالوقائع، إلى جانب المنهجيات والطرق المتبعة لإجراء البحوث، والتصنيف النمطي للباحثين/ات والمواضيع البحثية والممارسين/ات والناشطين/ات والمخرجات البحثية، بالإضافة إلى التوصيات السياسية الناتجة عنهم، والمساحات العامة التي يتفاعلون معها عند محاولة كسب التأييد والمدافعة لإجراء الإصلاحات الضرورية. ويقترح المقال حلولًا لدعم المناهضة ضد نهج "عنف الحداثة" المسيطر على عمليات صنع السياسات، مع اقتراح فكرة الابتعاد عن النماذج النمطية لإنتاج المعرفة وللمناصرة من أجل الحقوق الاجتماعية والاقتصادية في البلدان العربية لتصبح نماذجا أكثر محلية وإرتباطاً بخصوصية هذه البلدان.
{"title":"نظم الحماية الاجتماعية في المنطقة العربية: التحديات أمام إجراء البحوث وسن السياسات","authors":"رح الشامي رح الشامي+","doi":"10.19088/1968-2023.136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19088/1968-2023.136","url":null,"abstract":"يتناول هذا المقال الفرص والتحديات التي تواجه عملية إنتاج المعرفة وسن السياسات القائمة على الأدلة، والهادفة إلى إرساء نظم حماية إجتماعية أكثر شمولية وعدالة في المنطقة العربية. ويستند المقال إلى تجارب الباحثين/ات والناشطين/ات بعد جائحة كوفيد-19، ويناقش التحديات التي واجهوها خلال تلك الفترة. كما يتعمّق في الأسباب الجذرية لهذه التحديات والمرتبطة بعمليات جمع البيانات وتحليلها وربطها بالوقائع، إلى جانب المنهجيات والطرق المتبعة لإجراء البحوث، والتصنيف النمطي للباحثين/ات والمواضيع البحثية والممارسين/ات والناشطين/ات والمخرجات البحثية، بالإضافة إلى التوصيات السياسية الناتجة عنهم، والمساحات العامة التي يتفاعلون معها عند محاولة كسب التأييد والمدافعة لإجراء الإصلاحات الضرورية. ويقترح المقال حلولًا لدعم المناهضة ضد نهج \"عنف الحداثة\" المسيطر على عمليات صنع السياسات، مع اقتراح فكرة الابتعاد عن النماذج النمطية لإنتاج المعرفة وللمناصرة من أجل الحقوق الاجتماعية والاقتصادية في البلدان العربية لتصبح نماذجا أكثر محلية وإرتباطاً بخصوصية هذه البلدان.","PeriodicalId":47532,"journal":{"name":"Ids Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135366483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
During the Covid-19 pandemic, research organisations have strived to be resilient. This means navigating through the technical, operational, and political challenges to achieving successful research implementation. Particularly for local policy research thinktanks, the pandemic has made these challenges even more difficult to address. From the experience of the Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI) in implementing large-sample research in the formal and informal sectors during the pandemic, these challenges are countered through: (1) the incorporation of a technical advisory team; (2) the adoption of a flexible resource allocation strategy; and (3) the implementation of a quality assurance system. Policy research is only impactful when the knowledge produced serves its purpose as evidence to inform policymaking and guide programme intervention. To realise this objective, CDRI implements three types of engagement activities (consultation, coordination, and validation) that provide opportunities for interaction between researchers and relevant stakeholders.
{"title":"Lessons Learned from Mobilising Research for Impact During the Covid-19 Pandemic","authors":"Benghong Siela Bossba","doi":"10.19088/1968-2023.134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19088/1968-2023.134","url":null,"abstract":"During the Covid-19 pandemic, research organisations have strived to be resilient. This means navigating through the technical, operational, and political challenges to achieving successful research implementation. Particularly for local policy research thinktanks, the pandemic has made these challenges even more difficult to address. From the experience of the Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI) in implementing large-sample research in the formal and informal sectors during the pandemic, these challenges are countered through: (1) the incorporation of a technical advisory team; (2) the adoption of a flexible resource allocation strategy; and (3) the implementation of a quality assurance system. Policy research is only impactful when the knowledge produced serves its purpose as evidence to inform policymaking and guide programme intervention. To realise this objective, CDRI implements three types of engagement activities (consultation, coordination, and validation) that provide opportunities for interaction between researchers and relevant stakeholders.","PeriodicalId":47532,"journal":{"name":"Ids Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135368642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This review of the discussions of a workshop analyses Indigenous Technical Knowledge (ITK), examines its potential for rural development, and outlines implications and issues. ITK is compared with institutionally organised science and technology. It can be seen in terms of stock and process: a rich but underutilised stock of knowledge; and the potential of processes through which knowledge can be generated, assimilated, and transmitted. Implications include the use of new methods for eliciting ITK, changes in the values and reward systems of professionals and officials concerned with rural development, and the need for further research and analysis.
{"title":"Indigenous Technical Knowledge: Analysis, Implications and Issues","authors":"Michael Howes, Robert Chambers","doi":"10.19088/1968-2023.124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19088/1968-2023.124","url":null,"abstract":"This review of the discussions of a workshop analyses Indigenous Technical Knowledge (ITK), examines its potential for rural development, and outlines implications and issues. ITK is compared with institutionally organised science and technology. It can be seen in terms of stock and process: a rich but underutilised stock of knowledge; and the potential of processes through which knowledge can be generated, assimilated, and transmitted. Implications include the use of new methods for eliciting ITK, changes in the values and reward systems of professionals and officials concerned with rural development, and the need for further research and analysis.","PeriodicalId":47532,"journal":{"name":"Ids Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135419636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notes on Contributors: Power, Poverty, and Knowledge – Reflecting on 50 Years of Learning with Robert Chambers","authors":"S. Thompson, M. Cannon","doi":"10.19088/1968-2023.113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19088/1968-2023.113","url":null,"abstract":"This is the Notes on Contributors for IDS Bulletin 54.1A: Power, Poverty, and Knowledge – Reflecting on 50 Years of Learning with Robert Chambers.","PeriodicalId":47532,"journal":{"name":"Ids Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87235869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Normal bureaucracy tends to centralise, standardise and simplify, and to serve better those people and places that are less poor and more accessible. Field bureaucracies have done well (a) where simple standardised programmes have found uniform conditions – like the human body with smallpox and yaws eradication campaigns, or irrigated plains with green revolution packages, and (b) where they have created and sustained uniform conditions, as with technically exacting time‐bounded programmes for single commodities such as tea and milk. For the diverse, complex, and risk‐prone farming systems found outside green revolution areas, normal agricultural research and extension for single commodities has a more limited part to play. Reversals are needed and occurring – to perceive, permit, and promote diversity, searching for what farmers need and providing not a package of practices but a basket of choices. This complementary paradigm of reversals in agricultural research – to decentralise, and to serve diversity and complexity – raises the question of its wider relevance and application in other domains and bureaucracies, to fit and meet the varied conditions and needs of those who are poorer, less accessible, and less powerful.
{"title":"Bureaucratic Reversals and Local Diversity","authors":"Robert Chambers","doi":"10.19088/1968-2023.118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19088/1968-2023.118","url":null,"abstract":"Normal bureaucracy tends to centralise, standardise and simplify, and to serve better those people and places that are less poor and more accessible. Field bureaucracies have done well (a) where simple standardised programmes have found uniform conditions – like the human body with smallpox and yaws eradication campaigns, or irrigated plains with green revolution packages, and (b) where they have created and sustained uniform conditions, as with technically exacting time‐bounded programmes for single commodities such as tea and milk. For the diverse, complex, and risk‐prone farming systems found outside green revolution areas, normal agricultural research and extension for single commodities has a more limited part to play. Reversals are needed and occurring – to perceive, permit, and promote diversity, searching for what farmers need and providing not a package of practices but a basket of choices. This complementary paradigm of reversals in agricultural research – to decentralise, and to serve diversity and complexity – raises the question of its wider relevance and application in other domains and bureaucracies, to fit and meet the varied conditions and needs of those who are poorer, less accessible, and less powerful.","PeriodicalId":47532,"journal":{"name":"Ids Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135419414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Explanations of errors in past development theory and practice include changes in development conditions in professional norms and in modes of learning. How a fourth dimension, power, contributes to error is illustrated by three case studies – Freud and child sex abuse; the animal‐drawn, multi‐purpose, wheeled toolcarrier; and woodfuel gap analysis. Human society can be seen as patterned like a magnetic field, North–South, with powerful uppers and weak lowers. Uppers construct reality and project and transfer it to lowers. Their dominance, distance, and the professional ego generate and sustain misperception, as they generate, accept and interpret information to fit their needs and flatter their self‐esteem, and defend themselves against dissonance. Lower may mirror the reality of uppers, and generate, select, and distort information to fit what they believe uppers want, approve, and will reward. The resulting self-sustaining systems of power and misinformation are stable and hinder development. Solutions can be sought in reversals of power relations, changing behaviour and roles, redefining professional values, and enabling the poor, weak, and vulnerable better to conduct their own analyses and express their own realities.
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