Project: Formal and informal networks in rural areas28Jun2015
Workshop on "Producing Policy Relevant Analysis & Writing to Influence Decision Making"
Within the framework of the Policy Bridging Initiative (PBI), Katarina Staronova, Lucian Ciolan and Eoin Young from the International Centre for Policy Advocacy (ICPA), delivered a three day workshop to the RRPP researchers that are currently involved in the PBI Development Stream programme.
The training took place on 25-27 June 2015 in Belgrade, Serbia and brought together 20 participants from 11 RRPP funded projects.
Member of the CENTAR’s team on the project ‘The impact of socio-economic structure of rural population on success of rural development policy’ and Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Agriculture, Ružica Papić, took part in the workshop.
The Workshop was focused on supporting RRPP researchers to develop evidence-driven arguments and effective policy papers as a solid foundation for policy advocacy.
The three main components of the Workshop were:
- The policy paper as a decision making tool;
- Structuring and developing a coherent policy paper;
- Evaluating options through the policy analysis process.
During the interactive sessions participants had an opportunity to perform an analysis of a real sample policy studies and briefs in order to see how policy writers and advocates have approached the challenge in real situations. By building an outcome matrix participants were discussing possibilities to apply particular elements of the evidence based evaluation for their policy projects.