2.3 — Timing and expected output Call for research proposals on assumptions underlying Dialogue & Dissent
Timing and expected output
Projects should provide two types of output.
First, projects should provide input and lessons for the design of the next civil society policy framework of the MFA. As this design process will already start in 2019, research results should be available by then. This has consequences for the timing of output: the whole project (literature review and empirical research) has to be finalised in max. 18 months after the starting date.
− The literature review process must be completed within 3 months. A report of the review part of the project (output) must be sent within 4 months after the starting date to NWO-WOTRO who will assess the review for quality and share the review and assessment with the Knowledge Platform INCLUDE.
− For the empirical part, including the writing of the final report a maximum of 15 months are available.
Thus, delivering the results in time is a prerequisite and no (budget-neutral) extension of projects is possible.
Second, knowledge generated by the researches should be accessible, available and applicable for the MFA as input for a learning agenda with its partners in the Dialogue and Dissent framework. As this is an ongoing process, frequent interaction between researchers and the MFA on both intermediate results and final reports is a prerequisite. The Knowledge Platform INCLUDE will facilitate knowledge brokering activities. Main and co-applicant of awarded projects are obliged to actively participate in and contribute to knowledge brokering activities, e.g. workshop participation and timely delivery of interim- results.
Knowledge brokering
In order to facilitate outcome and impact, the Knowledge Platform INCLUDE will regularly organize workshops and other knowledge brokering activities that bring together researchers of different projects with relevant practitioners
6 Practitioners include any type of organisation other than research or higher education organisations that represent a group of people actively engaged in policy design for and/or implementation of those policies (programming), including public organisations (governmental departments of line ministries, local or international governments, extension services, et cetera), as well as private organisations (including for-profit enterprises (such as SME’s and MNE’s) and related support organisations and private non-profit organisations such as NGOs, cooperatives, social movements, unions and civil society organisations).
, including CSOs and the MFA. By involving them along the research, they act as sounding board to reflect on the approach of the empirical part and/or in discussing the (early) findings. This increases the likelihood that research results will be used and thereby improves their impact. Projects should budget the participation of main and co-applicant(s) to these workshops. Active participation in all knowledge brokering activities is required. Research updates will be published on a website.
The four workshops are:
− A kick-off meeting (one day) organized immediately after the actual start of the projects where the main applicants of all projects meet with a small group of stakeholders to fine tune their project plans in view of the call’s goals and objectives;
− A workshop (one day) five months after the start of the projects. The goal of this workshop is to discuss the results of the literature review (part one of the project) and to discuss the impact of the review on the empirical part. During this workshop the main and co-applicant will discuss their findings with a broader group of stakeholders (practitioners and researchers);
− A progress workshop (one day) approximately one year after the start of the project to discuss intermediate results of the projects with main and co-applicants of all projects and a broader group of stakeholders;
− A final workshop (one day) of main applicants of all projects with a small group of stakeholders at the end of the projects, in which final results on both project and programme level will be discussed, to synthesize results from all projects in order to formulate an aggregated and concise and coherent advice for more evidence-informed CSO policy frameworks to all stakeholders, and especially to the MFA of The Netherlands that will feed a new policy framework Dialogue and Dissent.
Next to these knowledge brokering activities, consortia are expected to organise a project kick-off workshop to fine tune the approach of the project (directly after the programme kick-off workshop) and to organize a final self-assessment workshop with stakeholders on site resulting in a final research report. Costs for policy briefs, lay-men publications, books, and other (visual/audio) approaches or tools to enhance knowledge sharing and use should also be budgeted.
- Regeling
- Call for research proposals on assumptions underlying Dialogue & Dissent
- Soort
- ZBO-regeling
- Geldend vanaf
- 13-07-2017
- BWB-id
- BWBR0039772
- Versie
- 2017-07-13_0