Tag: knowledge brokers

In June 2018 we visited Washington D.C. to run a one-day workshop for the National Science Foundation. The agency currently develops a multi-annual strategy for its advanced operations. The challenge is to make it evidence-informed. During the workshop we used the Knowledge Brokers game to learn the key concepts that are useful for designing evidence-informed strategy. Then we applied those concepts for NSF strategic effort. For that part we used a specially developed canvas and procedure of Learning Agenda. The workshop contributed to making the new NSF strategy evidence-informed.

In May 2018 we deliver the game session as part of the advanced ARGO Top Public Executive Program, run jointly by Polish National School of Public Administration and IESE Business School of University of Navarra. Our participants were 60 high-level public policy decision-makers – vice-ministers, directors of the departments from ministries and voivodeships offices, and chairmen of government agencies. The goal of the training was to raise their awareness on how they can use analytical insights in making better policy decisions. Thanks to the workshops participants learnt new ways of tapping onto reliable knowledge sources and analytical services within their organizations, as well as in their environment.

We continue our annual tradition of Knowledge Brokering workshop with MPA students at Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & Public Administration, The George Washington University. As in previous years we conducted a workshop that confronted students with real life challenges faced by the personnel of government evaluation units. Thanks to this experience students discovered effective strategies of knowledge brokering in public sector.

In October 2017 we delivered Knowledge Brokers workshop to the participants of the international conference „People, Planet and Progress in the SDG Era“. The event was organized by UNDP Independent Evaluation Office, in Istanbul, Turkey. During our workshop participants explored strategies for strengthening evidence-informed policies in developing countries.

In November 2017 the American Evaluation Association once again invited us to deliver the Knowledge Brokers on AEA annual conference in Washington DC. Thanks to the workshop evaluation practitioners from all around the world have been developing innovative ways of turning evaluative learning into actions for our governments and local communities.