Policy Development in Practice: Tools and Innovation for Integrating Knowledge Types

这项研究的目的是探索政策制定者如何克服他们在整合知识和数据方面面临的挑战，以便为未来的治理提供支持。这项研究将使用基于在线的德尔福研究来收集数据，并开发一个框架，以在低收入国家制定未来政策时实施跨学科和系统的思维方法。有大量轶事证据表明，在将综合形式的知识生产用于政策方面所面临的实际成功和斗争，分析创新的特定领域似乎在综合知识生产用于政策方面是适用和成功的：例如，未来进程、参与性系统测绘练习和基于设计的技术。然而，很少有人系统地总结他们在实践中面临的困难，或者为什么一些创新比其他创新更受欢迎和更具传承性。无论是在实践还是理论上，我们都需要认识到什么在起作用，为什么，在什么情况下，或者什么不起作用。主要研究问题：政策分析师如何在实践中有效地整合知识，这如何使低收入社区受益？-R1：非洲政策制定者如何克服整合知识和数据以实施更好的治理机制的挑战？-R2：我们如何为非洲政策制定者发展跨学科方法和系统的思维框架？-R3：什么样的方法适合于发展这个框架？(即参与性工具、定性、定量、混合方法)--R4：非洲目前的政策制定者学习和采用跨学科和系统思维方法的真正有效方法和容易程度？

The aim of the research is to explore how policymakers can overcome the challenges they face in integrating knowledge and datafor future governance. This study will use an online-based Delphi study to collect data and to develop a framework to implementinterdisciplinary and system's thinking approaches in developing future policies in low income countries. There is substantialanecdotal evidence on the practical successes and struggles faced in utilising integrative forms of knowledge production for policy,and particular areas of analytic innovation seem applicable and successful in integrative knowledge production for policy: e.g.futures processes, participatory systems mapping exercises, and design-based techniques. However, little has been systematicallysummarised about the difficulties faced in their practice, or why some innovations possess greater popularity and legacy aboveothers. Either in practice and theory, we need to recognise what is working, why, and in what context, or what does not.Primary research question: How do policy analysts integrate knowledge effectively in practice and how can this benefit lowincomecommunities?- R1: How can African policymakers overcome the challenges in integrating knowledge and data for implementing bettergovernance mechanisms?- R2: How can we develop an interdisciplinary approach and a system's thinking framework for African policymakers?- R3: What kind of methods are suitable for developing this framework? (i.e. participatory tools, qualitative, quantitative,mixed methods)- R4: What really works and how easily are interdisciplinary and systems thinking methods learnt and adopted by currentpolicymakers in Africa?