This report provides recommendations about ways to improve the use of research evidence, both in routine times and in future global crises.

This project investigated the role of science in the policy-making process in order to deepen understanding of the science-policy interface and the ways in which the scientific basis underpinning policy might be strengthened to better support good environmental decision-making.

This report investigated issues influencing the effective use of evidence in education policy development through a desktop review and interviews with senior policymakers. To make evidence more effective, researchers may need a better understanding of the policy process or may need an intermediary disseminator of knowledge who can hold a strong relationship with policymakers over...

The OECD has launched the 'Strengthening the Impact of Education Research' project. This publication reports on the first phase of the project. It maps the various structures, processes, actors and relationships that reinforce the quality, production and use of education research in policy and practice.

This report sets out seven, evidence-informed principles for those working in the policy ecosystem. The authors hope that these principles, which are not set in stone, will prompt discussion and debate on childhood policy, including the way children are conceptualised in policy and the role they play in the policy-making process.