Brief overview of the policy-making process including: promoting the use of research evidence in policy-making to improve health systems increasing country capacity in/institutionalising knowledge translation (KT) approaches to increase research utilization developing evidence briefs to inform health policy deliberations, and assess the impacts of policy options and the evidence-action cycle, including priority-setting, evidence, convening deliberative dialogue, and policy implementation. – Presentation slides are available hereĪ total of 88 participants from Bangladesh, Nepal, Uganda, and Malawi attended the webinar, together with those from IVI-RADAAR and WHO.Īfter an introduction to evidence-informed policy-making (EIP) and EVIPNet, Webinar 1 included the first four (of 15) training sessions:.The questions provided background information to enable completion of full ‘Stakeholder Mapping’ template (including stakeholder, description, name, power, interest). – Mapping of the Political/Policy contextĪ template was provided by facilitators with nine questions to capture the above details including: the issue progress made in addressing the issue previous related policies/laws/regulations whether the issue is on the government agenda windows of opportunity requirements to reach the policy objective how laws/regulations are implemented to this purpose stakeholders involved and the power interplay among/between stakeholders.Group work was comprised of four groups – one for each country (including representatives from WHO country offices) – with the aim of: Webinar 2 concluded with a Group work exercise (with support from EVIPNet/K2P) Stakeholders identified include: decision-/policy-makers (e.g., ministries, government agencies, parliamentarians, municipalities) influencers (e.g., NGOs/CSOs, religious leaders, media, private sector) and the public (e.g., those affected by AMR).Ī case example from Ghana was presented to highlight the steps in stakeholder mapping. The steps in stakeholder mapping include: defining the goal and implications of the proposed policy change listing interest groups involved in the issue categorizing stakeholders according to their influence and power over, and level of interest in the issue determining a strategy to engage relevant stakeholders conducting KIIs and presenting stakeholder analysis. Session 6:Stakeholder mapping including: on stakeholder interests, i.e., concerns over how a policy may impact them their positions, i.e., degree of agreement or disagreement with the policy and their power, i.e., capacity to influence policy. Understanding the political and health system and outlining key areas to keep in mind when mapping the policy and political context including: the importance of context-specific and actionable evidence, in particular the political/policy context (e.g., characteristics of government structures, civil service – and interests of – policy-making stakeholders, societal values and external factors, such as social and economic) and health system context (e.g., evidence on health system inputs, processes, and outputs and the analysis of how they combine to produce outcomes, such as – the WHO defined – service delivery, health workforce, information, medical technologies, finance, and leadership/governance). Each country must also appoint an EBP steering committee to support the EBP development process, comprising: 4-6 multisectoral, multidisciplinary and high-level stakeholders from government/policy-makers/researchers knowledgeable in the topic and able to contribute to the development of the EBP for AMR.Įach of the four countries reported briefly on the steps taken to form the Core Team, Steering Committee, and in identifying AMR stakeholders (some countries had also informed RADAAR/EVIP prior to the Webinar via email).įollowing reporting, the Webinar focused on the next two (of 15) training sessions: The EBP Team is responsible for developing the EBP and conducting key informant interviews (KIIs), hence an appropriate mixture of expertise is key to a successful team, including members with experience in: methods of writing an EBP administration evidence search, appraisal and synthesis technical expertise on the topic being addressed in the EBP and communication. – To identify relevant stakeholders involved in or affected by AMR in your country. – To form Evidence Briefs for Policy (EBP) core team (with assigned roles/tasks).A total of 65 participants from Bangladesh, Nepal, Uganda, and Malawi attended the webinar, together with those from IVI-RADAAR and WHO.Īfter a brief introduction, Webinar 2 began with ‘Feedback on preparatory work’ outlined in Webinar 1:
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