NEW ARTICLE
 By Heidi McAnnally-Linz, Bethany Park, and Radha Rajkotia
In the Stanford Social Innovation Review, IPA's Heidi McAnnally-Linz, Bethany Park, and Radha Rajkotia argue that generating research is only half the battle and that in the evidence-informed development community, the translation of research to evidence use is both unstructured and under-resourced. To correct this, they argue that funders and funding recipients need to commit to a full evidence-to-policy cycle, in which partners have a plan for evidence use and are held accountable to that outcome. They share experiences from IPA's strategy and projects across contexts of the what, who, and how of evidence use, aiming to illustrate that evidence-to-policy work can be less about the production of papers, and more about building meaningful partnerships that ground critical decisions in evidence.
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