Parliament, participation and policy making
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About the Event
This webinar is part of a series aimed at sharing findings and lessons from the book entitled, Using Evidence in Policy and Practice: Lessons from Africa edited by Ian Goldman and Mine Pabari. The book is to be published by Routledge and expected to be in print by July 2020. The book is supported by a range of policy briefs and videos intended to be both practical and critically rigorous. The voices of policy makers are key to the book, ensuring that the examples deployed are useful to practitioners and researchers alike.
This book asks how governments in Africa can use evidence to improve their policies and programmes, and ultimately, to achieve positive change for their citizens. Looking at different evidence sources across a range of contexts, the book brings policy makers and researchers together to uncover what does and doesn’t work and why.
The book uses case study research, drawn from 5 countries and the ECOWAS (west African) region, a range of sectors from education, wildlife, sanitation, through to government procurement processes, and a range of evidence used from research, evaluation, rapid research synthesis and citizen engagement. The case study research was guided by an analytical framework based on a behaviour change model, where demand for evidence, generation of evidence and application of interventions to promote use of evidence eventually leads to changes in policy and practice.
This webinar focuses on chapter 10, entitled "Parliament and public participation in Kenya" . This chapter explores the role of Parliament in policy making through citizen engagement and public participation, drawing on experiences from the review and enactment of Kenya’s Wildlife Conservation and Management Act 2013. A central message emerging from this case is the potential role of Parliament in promoting participatory engagement processes, but that the context and the way in which the participatory process is carried out is critical to its efficacy. This includes political commitment, using the right forms of engagement (e.g. deliberative or non-deliberative), ensuring that the right structures, skills and expertise are in place, and that a facilitation/knowledge brokering role is played to facilitate the engagement.
During the webinar, we will share a clip from the case study video and a presentation outlining the analytical framework, the main findings, including particular contextual factors that enabled and/or hindered the use of evidence generated through the public participatory processes as well as lessons and reflections for strengthening the involvement of the wider public in policy making in Kenya and beyond. We will open the discussion to hear and learn from participant experiences and views.
Following the webinar, we will share the policy brief as well as the full video to all participants, in English and French versions.
This book asks how governments in Africa can use evidence to improve their policies and programmes, and ultimately, to achieve positive change for their citizens. Looking at different evidence sources across a range of contexts, the book brings policy makers and researchers together to uncover what does and doesn’t work and why.
The book uses case study research, drawn from 5 countries and the ECOWAS (west African) region, a range of sectors from education, wildlife, sanitation, through to government procurement processes, and a range of evidence used from research, evaluation, rapid research synthesis and citizen engagement. The case study research was guided by an analytical framework based on a behaviour change model, where demand for evidence, generation of evidence and application of interventions to promote use of evidence eventually leads to changes in policy and practice.
This webinar focuses on chapter 10, entitled "Parliament and public participation in Kenya" . This chapter explores the role of Parliament in policy making through citizen engagement and public participation, drawing on experiences from the review and enactment of Kenya’s Wildlife Conservation and Management Act 2013. A central message emerging from this case is the potential role of Parliament in promoting participatory engagement processes, but that the context and the way in which the participatory process is carried out is critical to its efficacy. This includes political commitment, using the right forms of engagement (e.g. deliberative or non-deliberative), ensuring that the right structures, skills and expertise are in place, and that a facilitation/knowledge brokering role is played to facilitate the engagement.
During the webinar, we will share a clip from the case study video and a presentation outlining the analytical framework, the main findings, including particular contextual factors that enabled and/or hindered the use of evidence generated through the public participatory processes as well as lessons and reflections for strengthening the involvement of the wider public in policy making in Kenya and beyond. We will open the discussion to hear and learn from participant experiences and views.
Following the webinar, we will share the policy brief as well as the full video to all participants, in English and French versions.
Speakers
| Name | Title | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Professor Ian Goldman | Advisor on Evaluation and Evidence Systems, CLEAR-AA | Prof. Ian Goldman has been a Commissioner of 3ie since 2012, and was one of the founders of the Twende Mbele partnership of African governments on M&E. He joined CLEAR-AA in 2018 and is also an Adjunct Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town |
| Mine Pabari | Visiting Research Fellow | Mine has worked in programme management and evaluation in the conservation and development sectors for over 20 years. She is currently a visiting research fellow with CLEAR-AA and the managing partner of Athari Advisory. |
| Ahmed Hassan Odhowa | Principal Research Officer | Mr. Ahmed Hassan Odhowa, is a Principal Research Officer, in the Parliamentary Research Services Department (PRS) of Kenya Parliament. He provides leadership, coordinate activities and staff under the Governance and Political affairs division of PRS . |