HSRC

BCURE Consortium

STATUS: Current
PROJECT LEADER:Bohler, N (Prof. Narnia)
OTHER TEAM MEMBERS: Govender, K (Ms Koshen), Yu, K (Dr Ke Yu), Vivier, L.E. (Ms Elme), Pophiwa, N (Dr Nedson), Zikhali, T (Ms Thobekile), Bolton, H (Ms Hermien), Wentzel, ME (Ms Marie), Viljoen, J (Mr ), Pienaar, GD (Adv Gary), Sanchez Betancourt, DC (Ms Diana)
DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE: Democracy, Governance and Service Delivery (DGSD)
RESEARCH OUTPUTS: Evidence and policy in South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs, Vaka Yiko: promoting both evidence informed and participatory policymaking: study 3 preliminary report, Five principles and guidelines for an evidence-informed approach to policymaking in government, Evidence-informed policymaking in practice: an overview from South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs

Abstract

INASP has contracted with the UK Department for International Development (DFID) for the provision of services for the Building Capacity for the Use of Research Evidence programme (BCURE) . The Supplier, HSRC, comprising the Research Use and Impact Assessment (RIA) team and the Democracy Governance and Service Delivery (DGSD) team, agrees to provide the services stipulated below as a member of the consortium led by INASP for BCURE. The question that DGSD adresses in this study is: how can DEA implement an evidence-based process for environmental policymaking in the context of a desire to return to more participatory policy development processes? The following will be addressed; - Assessing trends and lessons around the role and quality of participation in policymaking in South Africa, especially the environmental sector, since the end of the Apartheid era - Exploring how policymaking might be both participatory and evidence informed given the various constraints that DEA and its officials are under

School's Out project kicks off in earnest

The HSRC's ten-country study -- the School's Out project -- has kicked off in earnest with meetings across southern Africa. The project is funded by Amplify Change and the project grant manager Liz Tremelett visited the HSRC. The project focuses on linking young people in schools to the sexual reproductive health supports and services that they need. Other partners in the project are GALA and Generation Alive. In the video, HSRC's Prof Finn Reygan discusses the project.

Solving social problems through research

BCURE Consortium

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The Idea of Transformative Social Policy: Securing wellbeing in the African Context

Ready or Not! Black Students' Experiences of South African Universities

School's Out project kicks off in earnest

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Book launch: THE CAPE RADICALS Intellectual and political thought of the New Era Fellowship, 1930s-1960s

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