Day 2

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Outline of the WorkshopDay 1• General Introductions• Theory - Research Policy Processes• The General Context

Day 2• Identification specific problems • Policy Process Tools & SME Policy processes in

Egypt• Other policy entrepreneur tools• What you alreay do• Working on the problemsDay 3• Strategic Planning• Programme Planning• Personal Action Plans• Evaluation

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Evidence-Based Policy – key texts• Modernizing Government, UK Cabinet Office

• The Magenta Book: Guidance Notes on Policy Evaluation, Chief Social Researcher’s Office

• Getting the Evidence, NAO

• Government Action Plan, Small Business Service

• Better Policy-Making, Bullock

• Evidence-based policy, Nutley

• Policy-based evidence, Sanderson

• Speaking Truth to Power, Bardach

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Existing theory – a short list• Policy narratives, Roe• Systems of Innovation Model, (NSI)• ‘Room for manoeuvre’, Clay & Schaffer• ‘Street level bureaucrats’, Lipsky• Policy as social experiments, Rondene• Policy streams and policy windows, Kingdon• Disjointed Incrementalism, Lindblom• Social Epidemics, Gladwell

• The RAPID Framework

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An Analytical FrameworkThe political context – political and economic structures and processes, culture, institutional pressures, incremental vs radical change etc.

The evidence – credibility, the degree it challenges received wisdom, research approaches and methodology, simplicity of the message, how it is packaged etc

External Influences Socio-economic and cultural influences, donor policies etc

The links between policyand research communities – networks, relationships, power, competing discourses, trust, knowledge etc.

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Overview of factors in Egypt

• Top down common

• Ministers key

• Quality of data variable

• Capacity weak

• Coordination poor

• Stakeholder trust low