3ie grantees communication for policy influence clinic day 3
TRANSCRIPT
Day 2 AM
• Defining key messages and arguments
• Communicating IEs
- Presentation by Edi Suharto on communicating (CCT Indonesia)
• How to write a policy brief
• Lessons
- Need to be strategic and targeted with comms
- Different comms throughout the project life and beyond
- Issue of researcher incentives – individual vs institution
- Policy brief one of many tools at your disposal but not the only one!
Day 2 PM
• Other communication tools:
– Working with the media
Media questions/issues and giving media interviews
– Writing blogs
Writing blogs for impact
• Monitoring and Evaluation
- Lessons
- How do you know that all the things you are doing are working – rationale to be monitoring
- Less about attribution but about managing
- Having policy objective clear and TOC is key
- Few indicators/few tools
- IE team can be a source of monitoring information
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Peer Assist groups
1. Voters Education (Bibhu) + Mothers Literacy (Smitri/Ritambhara)+ Midday Meals (Bastien Michel) NAYANA
2. Guajarat Industial Pollution (Vipin)+ Sanitation Orissa (Subhajyoti) NILAKSHI
3. CCT Indonesia (Adama/Edi)+ TYM fund Vietnam (Nhung+Yen) AJOY
4. Rural Banking (Shilpa/Sathe)+ Debt Relief A.Pradesh (Nagireddy/Radu Ban) ANDREW
5. Reduced Child Marriage (Leena/Urvashi)+ Courting Safe Behaviour (Kaniz) CHRISTELLE
6. Access 2 Weather Securities (Issac/Miguel)+ Bihar Rural Livelihood (Ajit/Upamanyu) CAROLINE (downstairs)
7. Pensions Maharashtra (Anup/Shailendra) + Index Insurance Gujarat (Shahid) JOHN (downstairs)