Dissemination

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Dissemination
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Unpacking Dissemination
Technical aspects of dissemination
Writing Communication Facilitation
Policy formulation

Documenting the experience
Organizational learning Scaling-up
Fed by results Get people on board Aspects of
social learning
Dissemination
Future funding
Information back to stakeholders
Further research New proposals Scaling up
Social learning Advocacy
Planning for dissemination
Who needs the information? Why do they need
it? What information do they need?
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Planning Dissemination
Target audience who do we want to reach? What information do they need? How will this information contribute to our overall goal and water demand management? What will our final products look like? What actions should we be taking at this point?  


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Examining policy what is policy?

• An assertion of intents or goals
• Standing plans through which an organization
  regulates, controls and promotes services or
  otherwise influences matters within its sphere of
  influence
• A strategy designed to solve or ameliorate a
  problem
• A norm of conduct
• A result or output of decision-making process

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Policies should be

• Evidence informed
• Based on the best available systematic
  information about the problem (and therefore
  accumulated research)
• Inclusive recognizes the interests of range of
  policy stakeholders
• Strategic contributes to overall mission and
  vision
• Realistic takes into account different realities
  faced by implementers
• Flexible to be applied in different settings
• Outcome focused.

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Different levels of policy

• Legislative policy enables allocation of funds
  for major initiatives across an area of
  government.
• Large-scale policy provides direction for
  implementation across many sites or a system.
• Local policy provides directions for
  implementation at a single site.

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Examining policy
In what way are you responsible for contributing
to policy development? What do you need to make
happen for policy change to come about?
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Examining policy

• It is important to remember that policy decision
  making is not made at a single time.
• Different parties add their inputs based on their
  own experiences, communications, knowledge, etc.
• This has implications for new knowledge (from
  research and from evaluation).

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Planning for policy
What is the policy framework that exists? Is there an enabling framework at the national / local level? How does your research contribution fit into the wider policy framework? Who should be involved in policy formulation and implementation? When should they be involved? How can they be involved?