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From a project report to a policy brief
Eva Ludi, Overseas Development Institute
Example: World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT) Global network of Soil and Water Conservation
(SWC) specialists WOCAT’s mission is to support innovation
and decision-making processes in sustainable land management by analysing and synthesizing experiences developing and applying standardized tools for
documenting, monitoring, evaluating, sharing and using knowledge
The basis
Database with 400 technologies 260 approaches from over 40 countries
Book describing 42 case studies
364 pages!
The process
One of the authors of the WOCAT Synthesis Book to draft a text for a Natural Resource Perspectives (NRP)
The first draft was written from the perspective of a project collaborator
► Achievements of the project were in the foreground and not the general
messages
The draft
Example
“WOCAT distinguishes between agronomic, vegetative, structural and management measures.”
“A useful distinction can be made among agronomic, vegetative, structural and management measures.”
Example
“55% of the technologies presented in the book are combinations of various agronomic, vegetative, structural and/or management measures.”
“More than half of the technologies presented by WOCAT (2007) are combinations of various agronomic, vegetative, structural and/or management measures.”
The NRP
4 pages
3500 words
The policy brief
A policy brief should….
…be based on evidence but not focus on details
…generalize context-specific findings …relate to the big picture
More information
WOCAT report http://tinyurl.com/yhfrrht
Policy brief http://tinyurl.com/ykyv7nz