day 2. rapid programme smepol, cairo, february, 2005 2 outline of the workshop day 1 general...
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Day 2
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RAPID Programme www.odi.org.uk/rapid
SMEPOL, Cairo, February, 2005
Outline of the WorkshopDay 1• General Introductions• Theory - Research Policy Processes• The General Context
Day 2• Identification specific problems • Policy Process Tools & SME Policy processes in
Egypt• Other policy entrepreneur tools• What you alreay do• Working on the problemsDay 3• Strategic Planning• Programme Planning• Personal Action Plans• Evaluation
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RAPID Programme www.odi.org.uk/rapid
SMEPOL, Cairo, February, 2005
Evidence-Based Policy – key texts• Modernizing Government, UK Cabinet Office
• The Magenta Book: Guidance Notes on Policy Evaluation, Chief Social Researcher’s Office
• Getting the Evidence, NAO
• Government Action Plan, Small Business Service
• Better Policy-Making, Bullock
• Evidence-based policy, Nutley
• Policy-based evidence, Sanderson
• Speaking Truth to Power, Bardach
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RAPID Programme www.odi.org.uk/rapid
SMEPOL, Cairo, February, 2005
Existing theory – a short list• Policy narratives, Roe• Systems of Innovation Model, (NSI)• ‘Room for manoeuvre’, Clay & Schaffer• ‘Street level bureaucrats’, Lipsky• Policy as social experiments, Rondene• Policy streams and policy windows, Kingdon• Disjointed Incrementalism, Lindblom• Social Epidemics, Gladwell
• The RAPID Framework
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RAPID Programme www.odi.org.uk/rapid
SMEPOL, Cairo, February, 2005
An Analytical FrameworkThe political context – political and economic structures and processes, culture, institutional pressures, incremental vs radical change etc.
The evidence – credibility, the degree it challenges received wisdom, research approaches and methodology, simplicity of the message, how it is packaged etc
External Influences Socio-economic and cultural influences, donor policies etc
The links between policyand research communities – networks, relationships, power, competing discourses, trust, knowledge etc.
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RAPID Programme www.odi.org.uk/rapid
SMEPOL, Cairo, February, 2005
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RAPID Programme www.odi.org.uk/rapid
SMEPOL, Cairo, February, 2005
Overview of factors in Egypt
• Top down common
• Ministers key
• Quality of data variable
• Capacity weak
• Coordination poor
• Stakeholder trust low