International Centre for Reproductive Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Ghent University, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya.
Health Res Policy Syst. 2018 Dec 17;16(1):123. doi: 10.1186/s12961-018-0397-7.
The uptake of findings from sexual and reproductive health and rights research into policy-making remains a complex and non-linear process. Different models of research utilisation and guidelines to maximise this in policy-making exist, however, challenges still remain for researchers to improve uptake of their research findings and for policy-makers to use research evidence in their work.
A participatory workshop with researchers was organised in November 2017 by the Academic Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Policy (ANSER) to address this gap. ANSER is a consortium of experienced researchers, some of whom have policy-making experience, working on sexual and reproductive health and rights issues across 16 countries and 5 continents. The experiential learning cycle was used to guide the workshop discussions based on case studies and to encourage participants to focus on key lessons learned. Workshop findings were thematically analysed using specific stages from Hanney et al.'s (Health Res Policy Syst 1:2, 2003) framework on the place of policy-making in the stages of assessment of research utilisation and outcomes.
The workshop identified key strategies for translating research into policy, including joint agenda-setting between researchers and policy-makers, as well as building trust and partnerships with different stakeholders. These were linked to stages within Hanney et al.'s framework as opportunities for engaging with policy-makers to ensure uptake of research findings.
The engagement of stakeholders during the research development and implementation phases, especially at strategic moments, has a positive impact on uptake of research findings. The strategies and stages described in this paper can be applied to improve utilisation of research findings into policy development and implementation globally.
将性健康和生殖健康及权利研究的成果纳入决策过程仍然是一个复杂和非线性的过程。虽然存在不同的研究利用模式和指南,以最大限度地提高政策制定中的研究利用,但研究人员仍然面临着提高研究成果采用率的挑战,政策制定者也面临着在工作中使用研究证据的挑战。
2017 年 11 月,学术性性健康和生殖健康及权利政策网络(ANSER)组织了一次研究人员参与式研讨会,以解决这一差距。ANSER 是一个由经验丰富的研究人员组成的联盟,其中一些人具有政策制定经验,他们在 16 个国家和 5 个大陆开展性健康和生殖健康及权利问题的研究。经验学习循环被用于指导研讨会讨论,以案例研究为基础,并鼓励参与者关注关键经验教训。研讨会的研究结果根据 Hanney 等人(Health Res Policy Syst 1:2, 2003)关于政策制定在研究利用和结果评估阶段的框架中的具体阶段进行了主题分析。
研讨会确定了将研究转化为政策的关键策略,包括研究人员和政策制定者之间的联合议程设定,以及与不同利益相关者建立信任和伙伴关系。这些策略与 Hanney 等人框架中的阶段相关联,是与政策制定者接触以确保研究成果被采纳的机会。
在研究开发和实施阶段,特别是在关键时刻,利益相关者的参与对研究成果的采用有积极影响。本文描述的策略和阶段可以应用于提高全球范围内研究成果在政策制定和实施中的利用。