Partnering with governments on research projects is a great way to ensure buy-in to rigorous research from policymakers . But it comes with a unique challenge: those policymakers can change in the middle of a study due to a political transition or staff turnover. When that happens, what does that mean for the research? Months of organizational planning typically go into a research project, and the prospect of blowing it up and doing something new can be daunting. In this blog post, we discuss IPA Mexico’s experience working through a political transition and what it’s taught us about how to effectively partner with policymakers more generally, and outline a few strategies that may be applicable to other contexts as well.
 

Read the full blog post here.