Research shows that communicating effectively with policy-makers requires 1 page policy summaries and recommendations; 3 page executive summaries; and 15-25 page reports, which are circulated in government. The PSPPD policy briefs follow this format, drawing out key messages of research or other evidence and demonstrating how they impact policy.
The table below provides a list of the planned policy briefs, with
highlighted links:
Low quality education as a poverty trap
Support for small-scale farmers
- Ruth Hall and Michael Aliber, PLAAS, University of the Western Cape (UWC)
Addressing youth unemployment
- Justine Burns, University of Cape Town (UCT)
Public sector antiretroviral treatment as a pro-poor development strategy
- Frikkie Booysen, University of the Free State: Department of Economics
Understanding informal self- employment
Golden thread paper from the Overcoming Inequality and Structural Poverty in South Africa conference
- Ian Goldman, Isobel Frye, Mirjam van Donk, Mastoera Sadan, David Neves, Andries du Toit
What is evidence-based policy-making?
- Phil Davies, Michael Noble, Gemma Wright, Phakama Ntshongwana
Addressing the violent nature of crime in South Africa
- Kirsten McPherson, Phil Davies, Oxford Evidentia
Households and labour migration in post-apartheid South Africa
- Dorie Posel, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Changes in income poverty over the post-apartheid period: An analysis based on data from the 1993 project for statistics on living standards and development and the 2008 base wave of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS)
- Murray Leibbrandt and Ingrid Woolard, SALDRU, UCT
Social cohesion barometer
- Jare Struwig, Human Sciences Research Council
A profile of children living in South Africa
- Kath Hall, Children’s Institute, UCT
Links between obesity, hypertension and poverty
- Callie Ardington, SALDRU, UCT
Determinants of child welfare outcomes in South Africa
- School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal
The Pathways Project: women’s route to crime and incarceration in SA
- Lillian Artz, University of Cape Town: Gender, Health and Justice Research Unit
Rapid Evidence Assessments (REAs) related to health
A study into the main factors contributing to under-performance at secondary schools in the Western Cape Province
- Wynand Louw, Institute for Social Development, UWC