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Working paper

Celebrating the impact of the Raising Learning Outcomes in Education Systems Programme

Provides a snapshot of the impact achieved by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) funded Raising Learning Outcomes in Education Systems Research Programme (RLO). It provides a reflection on the different types of impact that research projects have achieved to inform discussion and learning around impact pathways for both researcher and funders

Collection

Recipes for Impact - revised edition

This revised booklet profiles a selection of research funded by the ESRC-FCDO Strategic Partnership and the impact they have achieved. Impact stories show a snapshot of research and highlight the multiple, unique and surprising paths to achieving impact.

Impact story

Improving Adult Literacy in Niger Through Mobile Calls to Teachers

Research in adult education programmes in Niger directly led to improved reading and maths scores. Based on the evidence, the approach has also been tested by the Ministry of Education in primary schools.

Edited collection chapter

Evidencing Impact Across a Diverse Portfolio of Research

Sets out the approach undertaken by the Impact Initiative to capture and communicate the impact of research projects as part of its knowledge-brokering role for the Economic and Social Research Council-Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (ESRC-FCDO) Strategic Partnership. It describes how diverse dimensions of impact were recognised and articulated and the value of micro-impacts.

Edited collection chapter

An Approach to Synthesising Research Around Policy Agendas

Explores the Impact Initiative’s approach to identifying research projects that combine to provide coherent messages for decision makers. Specifically, it looks at a series of outputs called Research for Policy and Practice (R4PP) papers that have enabled grantholders to respond to live policy issues.

Edited collection chapter

A Network-based Approach to Brokering Research Evidence for Impact

Outlines the Impact Initiative’s approach and learning on strengthening relationships and networks across an epistemic community of researchers funded by the ESRC-FCDO Strategic Partnership. A key element of the Impact Initiative’s strategy to maximise the impact of a diverse portfolio of research has been to act as a broker to create connections and build networks between researchers and with policy audiences.

Edited collection chapter

The Power of the Collective and Global Knowledge Brokering

This report highlights experience of the Impact Initiative for International Development Research on brokering evidence across large social science research programmes in international development settings.

Working paper

Impact Lessons: Engaging Marginalised Communities in National Policy Formation

Explores six key benefits of involving marginalised groups in national policy formation which emerged from the Impact Initiative's ‘Engaging Marginalised Communities in National Policy Formation’ virtual event in June 2020.

Edited collection

Maximising the Impact of Global Development Research

This report provides an approach for brokering evidence across large research investments.

Research for policy and practice

Enseñanza de Calidad

Este resumen destaca los mensajes clave de la investigación centrada en la enseñanza de calidad del Programa de Investigación del Fondo Conjunto ESRC-FCDO (anteriormente DFID) para el Alivio de la Pobreza y el Aumento de los Resultados del Aprendizaje en los Sistemas Educativos, y es un resultado de la Iniciativa de Impacto para la Investigación del Desarrollo Internacional.

Collection

Celebrating the Raising Learning Outcomes Programme

Draws on research evidence from the ESRC-FCDO Raising Learning Outcomes in Education Systems, this collection highlights opportunities and collaborations that can arise during the course of research and the multiple, unique and sometimes surprising paths to achieving impact.

Working paper

Global Policy Processes: Disability and Inclusive Education

Captures insights from education policy actors and researchers who were brought together in a webinar in September 2020 to discuss what it means to work in partnership with multiple stakeholders on global policy processes related to disability and inclusive education.

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