Evidence and Policy in Aid-Dependent Settings

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This chapter examines how the political dynamics of aid relationships can affect the use of evidence within health policymaking. Empirical examples from Cambodia, Ethiopia and Ghana illustrate how relationships between national governments and donor agencies influence the ways in which evidence is generated, selected, or utilised to inform policymaking. We particularly consider how relationships with donors influence the underlying systems and processes of evidence use. We find a number of issues affecting which bodies or forms of evidence are taken to be policy relevant, including: levels of local technical capacity to utilise or synthesise evidence; differing stakeholder framing of issues; and the influence of non-state actors on sector-wide systems of agenda setting. The chapter also reflects on some of the key governance implications of these arrangements in which global actors promote forms of evidence use – often under a banner of technical efficiency – with limited consideration for local representation or accountability.

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Parkhurst, J., Leir, S., Walls, H., Vecchione, E., & Liverani, M. (2018). Evidence and Policy in Aid-Dependent Settings. In International Series on Public Policy (pp. 201–219). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93467-9_10

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