Louth County Council has piloted a new training resource, the Healthy Ireland Design Innovation (HIDI), which assists cross-departmental staff to apply the principles and goals of ‘universal design’ to their local economic and community planning activities. Taking a ‘universal design’ approach provides an ‘awareness framework’ to align innovation across the varying strands of local service and activity planning. As a result, staff can better plan for the integrated health, wellbeing,…
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The innovation consisted in implementing a policy delivery methodology (Deliverology(R)) in 14 public primary healthcare establishments of Cusco’s Northern health network. The aim was to transform the service culture and improve prenatal, postpartum, family planning, and pediatric care indicators in only 5 months, benefiting 22,900 low-income patients.
The UK government launched a new “youth hub” offer of employment services to young people affected by the disruption of the covid-19 pandemic. Through four days of workshops with key stakeholders, which included engaging young people, Impetus ran a theory of change process to enable one of the flagship hubs to co-design their new service to best serve young people. This is the first time that Impetus has applied its theory of change tools, and its impact focus to a government policy…
MediCapt app is an innovative digital application that enables clinicians to document forensic medical evidence in sexual violence cases, capture forensic photographs of injuries sustained, and store them securely. For survivors of sexual violence, timely and high-quality forensic examination, evidence collection, and documentation is a vital part of comprehensive care and access to justice. However, in many countries, including Kenya, the quality of medico-legal documentation is severely…
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Bicycle Barometer: a Citizen Science Platform for Improving Bicycle Safety for High School Students
Adolescents are often victim of traffic accidents when in traffic between home and school. Cities need feedback from this group to optimize bicycle traffic safety and infrastructure, but it can be difficult to reach and influence youngsters individually. Together with more than 70 Flemish high schools, Ghent University (UGent) has developed the Bicycle Barometer, a citizen science ICT platform to collect information about bicycle behaviour and perceived road safety. The web platform enables…
Latvia has developed an Innovation lab for user centric policy making via diverse innovative methodologies. We integrated innovative approaches to policy making at the very center of public administration, aiming to tackle complex horizontal issues via cross sectoral co-creation in development and testing of solution prototypes. InLab has become a national live testbed for new policy planning approaches with a vision of extending its impact to regional level.
Every day, civil servants and officials are confronted with many voluminous documents that need to be reviewed and applied according to the information requirements of a specific task. This is the case when making decisions, drafting legislation and policies, reviewing legislation and policies, assessing the impact of legislation and policies, carrying out various analyses, describing data sources and services, and many other tasks. To enhance the processing efficiency and comprehensive analysis…
Governments must judge hundreds of new programmatic budget proposals each fiscal year with little objective information about whether they will achieve the results claimed. Evidence of program effectiveness is a critical data point that is used when making budget and policy decisions, as programs with greater evidentiary support are generally more likely to deliver a high return on investment of public funds. The The Policy Lab at Brown University leveraged existing public clearinghouses of peer…
"Plaza Mayor" is an innovative multi-channel citizen participation project used by the public administration to collect citizens' proposals. Both face-to-face and digital media were used simultaneously to give a voice to the entire Asturian population. The data analysis methodology used allows for an immediate implementation of the results obtained, as well as the reuse of the information in the future.
The UK Government Policy Profession has piloted a new model called Shared Policy Capability Project to support department leaders and policy makers undertake a facilitated self-assessment of their policy environment and identify opportunities for improvement. Through this the government aims to build capability at a department level and enable policymakers to take an active role in improving the environment in which they make policy.