The two-day Writeshop on Policy Briefs headed in collaboration of Human Resource and Development Committee (HRDC) and Research Information and Utilization Committee (RIUC) of Regional Health Research and Development Consortium XI (RHRDC XI) was held at the Green Banana Business Hotel, Davao City. This is in line with the consortium’s thrust to utilize the health related research outputs in the region and reach its target stakeholders.
The activity was formally opened by Dr. Warlito Vicente, RHRDC XI Chairperson, were he said that researches should not be left in the bookshelves only to accumulate dusts. He pointed out that these researches can give a greater impact to the society if only it can reach the policy makers.
Before the start of the training workshop, Director Romeo M. Montenegro of Mindanao Development Authority’s (MinDA) Investment Promotions and Public Affairs Office gave an informative discussion with the participants regarding the policy making process in the government. He stressed out that it is very important to have a supportive policy maker who will present the policy briefs and its recommendations to its co-policy makers.
This was followed by the training proper facilitated by Dr. Ronald V. Amorado. Dr. Amorado introduce to the participants the importance of policy briefs and its structure. He pointed out that policy briefs are mainly the non-technical counterpart of a research output without sacrificing the information it have.
The two-day writeshop ended with researchers producing 11 policy briefs from their completed researches. This was then presented to the panelists Dr. Amorado and Ms. Ludivina Porticos, Science Resource Center Director of UIC who acted as policy-makers in evaluating the structure and content of their outputs.
The RHRDC XI is planning to initiate a venue wherein researchers will eventually be given a chance to present their outputs to policy-making councils in the city.
