Communicating Synthesised Evidence

1. Communicating Synthesised Evidence Michelle Burns – Evidence Broker (DFID) Melanie Punton – Graduate Placement (DFID)

2. Aim of Session Insight into Research and Evidence Division – Who are RED and what does it mean for me? Insight into how we as Evidence Brokers have managed communicating synthesised evidence – Who are Evidence Brokers? Exercise on what to do with Evidence

3. Research and Evidence Division Structure Chris Whitty Director and Chief Scientific Adviser DCSA Tim Wheeler Head of Research office Alan Winters Office of Chief Economist Professional Cadres RED Research Teams and SRFs Agriculture Climate & Env Human Dev Growth Governance, Conflict & Social Development Evidence & Evaluation 2 Chief Professional Officers (human Dev and Climate and Env), Chief Statistician, Head of Evaluation and 5 HoPs Health Education Livelihoods, Climate & Env and infrastructure 2 Chief Professional Officers, (Growth and private sector, Governance and society) and 4 HoPs Economists Private Sector Governance and Social Development Evidence Into Action Evidence Brokers Outreach Analysts Uptake Managers Evaluation Global Stats partnership Who are RED and what does it mean for me?

4. RED: Mission statement RED mission is to support DFID to become world class in using evidence for development impact while ensuring VFM, to influence other donors to be the same and provide better evidence to all decision makers in development.

5. Evidence Brokers- who and what? Aim: Assist advisers and programme managers make better informed decisions by: • Providing Evidence Products on a variety of strategically positioned subjects • Building capacity within the organisation to search, appraise and apply different types of evidence in programme and policy development settings

6. What do we mean by Evidence Products

7. What do Evidence Brokers do in Practice

8. Examples of Evidence Synthesis Products: Robustness of Evidence Maternal Health Care

9. Examples of Evidence Synthesis Products: Narrative Analysis Empowerment and Accountability

10. Examples of Evidence Synthesis Products: Anti-Corruption Interventions – Summary of the Evidence PFM procurement Media Judicial reform Impact of Interventions effective Tax reform Judicial independence Parliament Private sector AC Laws NGOs/community monitoring NACS contested SAIS Donor systems Police reform Int. agreements decentralisation Budget support FIUs Civil service reform ACAs ineffective Ombuds-person Corruption condition-alities fair weak strong Strength of the Evidence - Jesper Johnsøn, Nils Taxell, and Dominik Zaum 2012

11. Examples of Evidence Synthesis Products: Map of evidence on media and conflict Key to evidence themes Methodology

12. Exercise • Review small amount of evidence in front of you • Develop a different approach to telling key messages/findings

13. Area Key Theme General Direction Details/Worth Knowing Improved access can have an effect on contraceptive prevalence – Bangladesh (6a) and Ghana (6b) Inadequate access to services not most predominant cause in addressing unmet need – Cross National Review Distance to source of contraception services influences ability to use/access Mixed Geographical