Working Paper
The Impact Initiative programme, funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the former UK Department for International Development (DFID), which merged with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office on 2 September 2020 to become the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), aims to increase the uptake and impact of research from two research programmes jointly funded by ESRC–FCDO: the Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research and the Raising Learning Outcomes in Education Systems Research Programme. The Initiative achieves this through a process of identifying synergies between the programmes and grant holders, and supporting them collectively and individually to exploit influencing and engagement opportunities. As well as facilitating knowledge exchange and policy engagement on behalf of the two programmes, the Initiative develops programme-level research communication outputs in order to ensure each programme’s research is effectively communicated and shared.