IDS Knowledge Services
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IDS Knowledge Services seek to provide a bridge between research, policy and practice in international development by delivering and supporting a range of information-sharing services, and strengthening the ability of others to do the same. With over forty years experience in this field, we aim to help people understand and make sense of the complexities and realities of poverty and injustice, emphasising the importance of using diverse and credible information in decision-making processes. We work closely with other knowledge brokers across the world, and with partners in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Our flagship services include the British Library of Development Studies, Europe's largest research collection on economic and social change in developing countries; BRIDGE, which supports gender advocacy and mainstreaming with print and online information services; and Eldis, a web portal sharing a broad range of publications on development research, policy and practice. We are also running a number of projects which look at opening up access to research information, stimulating demand for its use, and strengthening the capacity of others also engaged in this knowledge brokering role. Our Impact and Learning Team is exploring this role in the context of research to policy process and testing approaches to planning, monitoring, evaluation, and sharing the wider lessons around this. We want to work with others to understand and champion the role of information in tackling poverty and injustice and help address the power imbalances and capacity constraints that limit people's ability to access and make use of information.
