Strengthening innovation systems
Understanding knowledge and decision making systems
Intervening to strengthen knowledge and decision making systems
Ensuring more equitable partnerships
Improving participatory, consultative and public engagement processes
Enhancing the generation, procurement and use of knowledge/evidence in decision making
What issues can I help with?
Research
Facilitating capacity strengthening processes
Learning and evaluation
What do I offer?
What approach do I take?
I support actors aiming to strengthen knowledge and decision making systems through analysis of the macro environment, national level leadership, the governance and regulatory framework, quality assurance processes and availability of financial resources
I also explore the interconnections/partnerships between key actors such as universities, government institutions, the private sector, NGOs and international organisations.
Recent examples of my work
2011-2022: supported the Australian Government’s Knowledge Sector Initiative (KSI) to understand, improve and review the knowledge system in Indonesia though research and advice.
2018: undertook research to identify frameworks that conceptualise social science research systems in a ‘developing’ country context.
2018: supported OSF ito better understand the linkages between researchers and activists (OSF EJP)
2013-2017: Supported the South African Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) and Zimbabwean Ministry of Youth to improve the way they make decisions and use evidence (funded by FCDO (formerly DFID) BCURE)
Recent publications
2018: Policy, change and paradox in Indonesia: Implications for the use of knowledge. Taking a case study approach, this report explores what specific factors and actors shape the policy process in Indonesia? Whose and what type of knowledge tends to be influential in shaping policy and why? How is knowledge used as a resource by key actors and for what purpose? And what are the implications for the Knowledge Sector Initiative and how it works with its partners?
2017: Improving effectiveness of evidence use to support Zimbabwe's youth. This report discusses how the FCDO funded VakaYiko project supported the Research and Policy Coordination Unit (RPCU) of Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment (MYIEE) to promote effective evidence based action.
2017: The development and use of a common approach to community based disaster risk reduction in Nepal. This report reflects on the development of a common approach to facilitating community‐based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) and how effective it was in harmonising the practice of multiple actors in the CBDRR sector in Nepal.
2016: Enhancing the use of evidence in South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs: Lessons learned. This report reviews what was planned, what actually happened, the outcomes that emerged and the lessons that were learnt from a project whose objective was to support the South African Department for Environmental Affairs (DEA) to improve its decision making and use of evidence.
2016: The Acquisition of Research Knowledge by National-Level Decision Makers in Indonesia. This report provided a baseline of how national-level decision makers acquire research knowledge in Indonesia, against which the Knowledge Sector Initiative would measure any progress to which it contributed during the lifetime of the programme.
2016: Evidence and policy in South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs. This report This report synthesises the organisational issues that influence how the South African Department for Environmental Affairs works with evidence to develop, implement, monitor and report on environmental policies.
2019: Engaging the public: lessons from history
2018: Series on supporting policymakers to use evidence:
