Research for Development Impact: Lessons Learned from ESPA
Over nearly a decade of ESPA’s lifespan, the ‘impact agenda’ has grown exponentially. Pressure has mounted for academics to provide ‘research that matters’, to inform action on major global challenges such as poverty, climate change and environmental degradation. This evolving impact agenda opened exciting opportunities, but also raised conceptual and operational challenges, for ESPA researchers and partners, as well as for the programme as a whole.
In this webinar, ESPA Impact Manager Becky Murray reflects key lessons emerging from a decade of ESPA experience. How impactful have ESPA projects been? What kind of impact have they achieved? What has enabled, or hindered, impact? What lessons can be learned? The webinar also explores the value of a programme approach, and the extent to which ESPA has succeeded in creating a whole (programme) greater than the sum of its constituent (project) parts.
For further, more detailed information, please take a look at our policy and practice briefs on:
Research for development impact: The role of equitable partnerships
https://www.espa.ac.uk/results/policy...
Interdisciplinary research for development impact: How can funders walk the talk?
https://www.espa.ac.uk/results/policy...