ICPA Blog

On the “policy supply chain” in Bosnia & Herzegovina

Monday, February 2, 2015

This guest post was written by three panelists (Emina Cosic, Aisa Telalovic and Nermin Oruc) at a policy conference in Belgrade on Nov 19, 2014 entitled “Enhancing the contribution of research to policy making in the Western Balkans: lessons from practice”. We designed this case study session to shed light on how researchers and civil servants form and engage in professional collaborative relationships in the production and use of policy research to inform the decision making process.

In November 2014, RRPP and...

Policy research design in data & research light environments

Monday, February 2, 2015

In two of our ongoing projects (with Regional Research Promotion Programme[1] and a Policy Fellowship with the Soros Foundation Kazakhstan), we will run workshops on policy research design in February. In order to frame our discussion for workshop participants and also to start a broader discussion of effective approaches to policy research in challenging environments, I decided to put down what we have learned from the experience of mentoring policy researchers and...

Reflections on Research to Policy Links in the Western Balkans

Sunday, November 30, 2014

In this post, I want to report on and share some interesting reflections from a recent event entitled “Enhancing the contribution of research to policy making in the Western Balkans – lessons from practice” held in Belgrade, November 19-20, 2014. We were delighted to partner with the Regional Research Promotion Programme to organise this...