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Evidence for Informing Health Policy Development in Low- Income Countries (LICS): Perspectives of Policy Actors in Uganda [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2015
Background Although there is a general agreement on the benefits of evidence informed health policy development given resource constraints especially in Low-Income Countries (LICs), the definition of what evidence is, and what evidence is suitable to ...
Juliet Nabyonga-Orem, Rhona Mijumbi
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The role of policy actors’ belief systems and interests in framing public health nutrition problems: a case study of obesity in Australia [PDF]

Public Health Nutrition
Objective: This study investigated how the belief systems and interests of policy actors shaped their framing of the causes and solutions to obesity and how this influenced policy recommendations.
Patricia Ribeiro de Melo, Phillip Baker, Priscila Pereira Machado, Elly Howse, Tanita Northcott, Mark Lawrence   +5 more
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The REDD+ policy arena in Vietnam: participation of policy actors

Ecology and Society, 2014
Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) has gained increasing global attention because of its potential to reduce carbon emissions and improve forest governance.
Thuy T. Pham, Monica Di Gregorio, Rachel Carmenta, Maria Brockhaus, Dung N. Le   +4 more
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Political Sociology Meets Public Policy: Exploring Policy Formulation as a Locus for Assessing Power of Policy Actors

Političke Perspektive, 2023
The uplift of a governance paradigm opened the door for different non-formal ‎actors to join the policy-making process. This proliferation of actors posed‎ some new questions about the relationship between them.
Marko Kovačić
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Förändra praktiken genom imperativ policy? Lärares förutsättningar för arbetet med kartläggning i förskoleklass.

Utbildning & Demokrati, 2022
Change the practice through imperative policy? Teachers’ conditions for doing assessments in preschool class. This study examines the conditions given to teachers in preschool class in order to execute the guarantee for early interventions and mandatory ...
Helena Ackesjö, Tobias Bromander, Sven Persson   +2 more
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What counts as evidence for policy? An analysis of policy actors’ perceptions

PAR. Public Administration Review, 2022
Evidence plays a growing role in public administration worldwide. We analyze the perceptions of policy actors, using Q methodology and a structured questionnaire, which reveals four types of profiles.
E. MacKillop, James Downe
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Discursive Institutionalism and Food Policy Research: The Case Study of Canada’s National Food Policy

Frontiers in Communication, 2021
“Food” and “policy” are ambiguous concepts. In turn, the study of food policy has resulted in varying approaches by different disciplines. However, the power behind the discursive effects of these concepts in policymaking—how food policy is understood ...
Mary Coulas
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Enacting school self-evaluation: the policy actors in Irish schools

International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2021
School self-evaluation is a low-stakes policy recently mandated in Ireland and while schools are becoming more consistent in engaging in this internal mode of evaluation, their engagement has not been uniform.
Craig Skerritt, J. O'hara, Martin Brown, G. McNamara, Shivaun O’Brien   +4 more
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Strengthening decision-making on sustainable agricultural intensification through multi-stakeholder social learning in sub-Saharan Africa

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2021
Increasing and competing demands on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa mean that policy and investment decisions become more complex. Despite growing consensus on the need for sustainable agricultural intensification, there is limited agreement on how to ...
Richard Lamboll, Valerie Nelson, Million Gebreyes, Daimon Kambewa, Blessings Chinsinga, Naaminong Karbo, Audax Rukonge, Martin Sekeleti, Wesley Litaba Wakun'uma, Tamene H. Gutema, Magreth Henjewele, Jessica Kampanje-Phiri, Patricia Masikati-Hlanguyo, Wilhelmina Quaye, Solomon Duah, Mbarwa Kivuyo, Progress Nyanga, Mavis Akuffobea Essilfie, Nana Yamoah Asafu-Adjaye, Victor Clottey, Adrienne Martin   +20 more
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Reconceptualizing the ‘problem’ of widening participation in higher education in England

London Review of Education, 2021
This article critically analyses national and institutional forms of policy and different conceptions of widening participation in higher education in England by contrasting representations of ‘it’ as a ‘problem’ to be managed, compared with complex ...
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