Bridging the gaps sector to sector and research to policy: linking family planning to urban development

Trudy Harpham, Robert Smith, Tom LeGrand, John Cleland, James Duminy, Susan Parnell, Judith F. Helzner, Gaye Agesa and Lynette Kamau

Development in Practice, 2021, vol. 31, issue 6, 794-804

Abstract: There is growing science and policy interest in multi-sectoral action, but bridging the gap between family planning and urban development is challenging. This paper analyses the experience of integrating these sectors in sub-Saharan Africa via building research capacity. Family-planning researchers were supported to link with urban-development actors, one goal being to generate lessons on the process of getting their research into the policy domain. The urban governance sector’s dynamic and complex nature was a particular challenge for family-planning researchers; in future, structured familiarisation with a sector might facilitate multi-sectoral action and better enable researchers to link with the policy world.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2021.1937560

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