GIZ Land Hub Meeting 2020, Online event, Berlin
Organisers: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
Dr. Insa Flachsbarth (Consultant)
Panel discussion:
Evidence-based policy helps to make well-informed decisions about policies, programs and projects, by placing the best available evidence from research at the heart of policy development and implementation. This also accounts for policymaking in the land sector. But how can we implement evidence-based policy in a sector where data is usually scarce or difficult to access? How can we respond with policies and programs to in-creasingly rapid global trends while still relying on robust science? And what is the key to good science communication, given that the validity of scientific facts is coming under increasing pressure worldwide? In this session we would like to address these questions and focus on the relationship between good research and policymaking in the land sector and how good science communication can work. Through a panel discussion covering different perspectives, we want to learn from the experiences of experts and conduct a reality check to see if we are on the right track and what else we need.
