Sponsoring national processes for evidence-informed policy in the health sector of developing countries - Bangladesh

Bridging the know-do gap: strategies to enhance the capacity to apply health policy and systems research into evidence-informed policy-making in Bangladesh

This policy programme seeks to develop a new format for engaging policy-makers and presenting them with relevant information. With knowledge translation and policy impact an integral step in the iterative research loop, this initiative seeks to engage and receive feedback from all relevant producers and recipients of health research in Bangladesh, particularly from government, non-state sector partners and the core donor group. This programme of work will follow the Supporting Translation of Evidence into Policy and Practice (STEPP) initiative developed by the South African Cochrane Centre.

The intervention strategy builds upon rigorous quantitative analysis in order to adhere to the 5 overarching objectives:

• to assess the amount of engagement between researchers (especially from ICDDR,B), policy-makers and other key stakeholders in Bangladesh and to explore how far receptor roles have been established.
• to measure the impact of previous engagements.
• to develop a matrix of existing evidence already collated in systematic forms and related to priority health policy and system issues in Bangladesh.
• to learn lessons from the first two steps and develop routine systems of enhancing and capturing the level of engagement between research and policy makers. This will in particular include developing a tool for informing key stakeholders and decision-makers in Bangladesh about the systematic evidence available on priority issues in health and the health system.
• to evaluate the impact of the new tool and mechanism of engagement.

The outcomes of this project would be the development of a long-term self-sustaining evidence-informed policy process, particularly through the development of a new programme for the Centre and of junior scientists to bring that programme to life.

ICDDR,B will develop the national understanding of evidence informed policy and the national capacity to produce appropriate summarized evidence as well as an environment in which knowledge translation routinely takes place.

Project description

Programme: Supporting national processes for evidence-informed policy in the health sector of developing countries

Research title: Bridging the know-do gap: strategies to enhance the capacity to apply health policy and systems research into evidence-informed policy-making in Bangladesh

Thematic Research Area: Evidence to Policy

Grantee Country: Bangladesh

Grantee Institution: ICDDR,B

Program Coordinator/Principle Investigator: Professor Alejandro Cravioto

Start date: March 2009

Status of grant: Completed

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