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Session D-2
Title: Role of integrated assessment for policy making and evaluation Session organisers: Floor Brouwer (Agric. Economic Research Institute, Wageningen UR, the Netherlands), Hayo Haanstra (Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food quality, the Netherlands), Insa Theesfeld (Leibniz Inst. of Agric. Development in Central and Eastern Europe, Halle, Germany)
Scope of the session: What are the requirements for impact assessment to support policy? How can science and policy effectively engage each other? What are the cultural and practical issues that influence that engagement? What are practical strategies and approaches for making research more influential with users, especially policy users? How have actual integrated assessment project dealt with the policy engagement aspects? What are the successes and failures? What are the lessons learned? Experience in different parts of the world. The science-policy interface: theory, practice and the role for decision support. The session will explore the political dimension of impact assessment, and its use or misuse in the policy process. How are ex-ante policy assessments used in the political process? What is the role of key stakeholders in the policy assessment? What is the contribution of information and knowledge to the ex-ante assessment? Finally, the session identifies the potential contribution of impact assessment studies as a political instrument.
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