While donors are increasingly interested in both promoting evidence-based policymaking and advancing locally led development, the two agendas have often remained separate. This is a missed opportunity. A recent CGD working group underscored the value of locally immersed researchers and organizations in generating evidence that is more likely to be used by policymakers.
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The world around us, and the way researchers study and understand it, changes all the time. The constant change means that what we know through science also shifts.