Successful Communication: A toolkit for researchers and civil society organisations

This downloadable toolkit helps researchers and Civil Society Organisations communicate evidence in order to inform or influence policy, to achieve their development objectives or simply to make their knowledge accessible to a wider audience.

Within the field of international development, perhaps it is not more communication of evidence that is needed, but rather better communication of evidence.

Towards this end, this toolkit presents 23 tools, divided into

• 'Planning',
• 'Packaging',
• 'Targeting' and
• 'Monitoring.'

Developed by the Overseas Development Institute in the UK, the toolkit addresses how researchers and CSOs can best communicate evidence in order to inform or influence policy, to achieve their own stated development objectives or simply to make their own knowledge accessible and understandable to a wider audience.

Download toolkit

The toolkit can be downloaded in PDF, or purchased in printed form from
www.odi.org.uk/publications/toolkit2.html?findclas=4

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Tools for Policy Impact: A Handbook for Researchers

Daniel Start and Ingie Hovland
With the aim of using research to contribute to more evidence-based and pro-poor policy, this handbook presents work-in-progress on tools for policy impact, specifically geared towards the needs of researchers. The tools are grouped under the headings Research Tools, Context Assessment Tools, Communication Tools, and Policy Influence Tools.

A Toolkit for Progressive Policymakers in Developing Countries

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