GRIPP: Getting Research into Policy and Practice

This page is a resource page of GRIPP links and readings. If you have any resources you'd like added, please email Katherine.

The Policy Analysis Unit works actively in the area of GRIPP through facilitating the generation of policy recommendations based on research evidence and policy dialogues. It focuses on three priority areas, namely social policy and poverty, social protection and health, and education and social innovation; and it works with a range of partners to enhance the implementation and evaluation of social policy.

Organisations and projects

These are some organisations working in the area of getting research into policy and practice:

• Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, which aims to promote the generation and use of health policy and systems research to improve health systems in developing countries
• Evidence Network, which seeks to provide a focal point for those interested in evidence based policy and practice (EBPP).
• Global Development Network's Bridging Research and Policy project
• Overseas Development Institute's Research and Policy in Development (RAPID) project. See particularly its Tools page.

Reading lists

• Relevant Reference Literature on Research-Policy Link(Age)S, a 2007 UNESCO reading list
• RAPID's annotated bibliography with summaries of 100 documents on bridging research and policy
• RAPID's documents on research-policy links
• RAPID's lessons from the UK for developing countries: literature review of evidence-based policy (EBP) debates

Journals

There are few journals that deal specifically with the research/policy interface. Here are some that we know of:

• Evidence and Policy
• Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis

Presentations

This presentation, by Phil Davies of the American Institutes for Research, gives a very good overview of many aspects of getting research into practice.