Call for GRIPP case studies

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Getting Research Into Policy and Practice: Case studies from Sexual and

Reproductive Health, Safe Motherhood and HIV.

Researchers are increasingly required to maximise the impact of their research

beyond the academic evidence base into policy and practice. In order to support

researchers in this, Snow International Research and Training (UK) is

compiling an evidence base of activities that researchers have undertaken to

maximise the impact of their research. This evidence base is in the form of

case studies.

Case studies previously collected are on the Getting Research Into Policy and

Practice (GRIPP) website (www.jsiuk-gripp-resources.net), which includes a

searchable database of case studies; the following are some lessons learned from

these in the area of:

Implementation and Scale up

The involvement of the stakeholders in the design of interventions, for example

the social marketing campaign (Nepal), training materials (Ghana) or

interventions (Bangladesh, Senegal and Burkina Faso), meant that these

interventions were more easy to scale up since the materials or methods had

already been sanctioned.

In the Bangladesh case study, the involvement of strategic partners in the

research process meant that the results were scaled up within NGOs, which were

not the sites of the original research, as well as the Ministry of Health.

The format of the case studies has been further developed, and therefore now

differs from the case studies on the website, but the website and lessons

learned do illustrate the contribution that your case study would make to the

GRIPP evidence base.

Please let your experience contribute to this emerging evidence base. For

additional information and the case study guidelines please email Jean-Marc

s (jjacobs@...). Many thanks and apologies for cross posting.

Jean-Marc s

Information and Communications Officer

SnowInternational Research and Training (UK)

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