GDNet-AERC Policy Brief Training Workshop – ICT and Economic Development Project

I am writing this blog from Nairobi, Kenya, where I am helping run another GDNet-AERC Policy Brief workshop held from 1-2 December, 2011. The workshop is the fourth in a series of research communications capacity building workshops which were held in collaboration with the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) over the past two years 2010-2011.

Workshop Group Photo

Entitled “GDNet-AERC Policy Brief Training Workshop”, the workshop was designed for a specific group of researchers who produced research papers for the AERC “ICT and Economic Development” Project. The objectives of the workshop are:

• To build capacity and skills in communicating research to maximise its uptake and impact
• To increase understanding of research to policy processes, and the role of Policy Briefs in this process
• To improve understanding of the role of the media in communicating research, in order to be more strategic about media tactics in future
• To produce an outline Policy Brief for each research project, to be finalised after the workshop with support from GDNet team

Arsène Nkama (Cameroon) & Prisca-Nadège Bibila-Nkouma (Congo)

An entire session of the workshop will be dedicated to a Mock Press Conference during which researchers will present the key findings and recommendations of their research to an audience of journalists.

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More blogs about the workshop will be posted soon