Inaugural Policy Brief Training
The office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, Innovation and Enterprise (DVC-RIE) as part of the initiative to develop a Policy Briefs Series organized a policy brief training that was conducted on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at the University of Nairobi Towers, 4th Floor, RM 402. The online registration portal was oversubscribed within 48 hours and 37 participants attended the training session, all of them from the University of Nairobi Academic staff.
Opening remarks were by Prof. Madara Ogot – DVC-RIE. The course trainers were led by Prof. Attiya Waris- Director, Research & Enterprise, and included Dr. Parita Shah, Dr. Nicholas Orago, Dr. Radha Upadhyaya.
Generally, Policy briefs are brief publications that are used to bring attention or raise awareness towards particular issue(s) that are/ should be of concern to key policy actors or various other targeted audiences. They are often preferred by policy actors around the globe as they are written in a short and easily digestible manner that allows persons to quickly scan through and obtain the problem the writer intends to address and his/her recommended solutions
The participants were appreciative and requested for more training to be done to reach out to those who were not able to attend the training.
