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Conference news - Social knowledge and international policy making
Eade, Deborah Utting, Peter
Eade, Deborah
Utting, Peter
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"A question often asked of United Nations (UN) agencies and their research activities is whether the knowledge they generate is useful for international policy making. Implicit in this broad question are others concerning the relevance, quality, dissemination and impact of research. ! Are researchers addressing the sorts of issues and questions of concern to policy makers? ! Do research findings reach policy makers and inform policy making both internationally and at the country level? ! Who conducts UN research, and how does research commissioned by international and bilateral agencies interact with researchers in developing countries and affect their research agenda? ! Is UN research sufficiently independent and critical? ! Can UN research add anything to that being undertaken within the Bretton Woods institutions (BWIs), universities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs)? Underlying such questions is often the erroneous assumption that knowledge and policy stand in a direct or unproblematic relation to each other. To understand how research may influence policy it is necessary to examine how the relationship is mediated by politics, discourse, subjectivity and learning. It is also important to understand the implications of new institutional developments associated with networking, public-private partnerships, knowledge agencies and organizational learning."(pg 1)
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2004-04-20
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