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Multisector collaboration for community action

Better understanding multisectoral collaboration in supporting community action that enhances wellbeing.

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Community Wellbeing

Net zero 2035

We supported the work of the Wales 2035 Challenge Group by providing evidence across its five challenge areas.

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Environment and Net Zero

Poverty stigma

We are supporting public services and policy makers in Wales to understand poverty stigma and how it affects their communities.

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Tackling Inequalities

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Tackling Inequalities

Exploring how evidence can help address the temporary accommodation crisis

We have launched an open call, inviting local authorities to submit expressions of interest for evidence support from the Wales Centre for Public Policy (WCPP) and/or from our fellow What Works Centre, the Centre for Homelessness Impact. Click here to submit your application. The housing and homelessness crisis Policy makers across Wales have repeatedly highlighted the deepening […]

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Research and Impact

How to lead an evidence centre

In the last ten years, a range of countries have invested in organisations designed to bridge the gap between researchers and policy makers. In the United Kingdom alone, we now have 12 What Works Centres, 30 Health Determinants Research Collaborations, three Local Policy Innovations Partnerships, several regional evidence centres, and dozens of policy engagement teams […]

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The benefits and challenges of lived experience in knowledge mobilisation

Involving experts-by-experience in knowledge mobilisation can help to enhance impact on policy and practice, and support equality, diversity and inclusion. But it also creates risks and challenges that need to be considered and addressed. These are some of the takeaways from an 18-month UKRI-funded Fellowship embedded at WCPP to support What Works Centres and other […]

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Environment and Net Zero

Policy options for voluntary carbon markets in Wales

Voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) allow governments and non-state actors to purchase voluntary carbon units to offset emissions while financing mitigation activities and nature-based solutions. They are increasingly seen as tools to support climate goals, restore ecosystems, and deliver wider sustainable development benefits. At the same time, they raise challenges around integrity, permanence, and additionality. The […]

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Environment and Net Zero

Domestic retrofit: Driving green growth and social equity

The transition to net zero presents a critical opportunity to reconsider the way in which our economy operates, especially in the context of stagnating productivity and economic growth in recent years. This project will focus on the housing sector and will explore the evidence for investment in retrofit being a mechanism through which wider benefits […]

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Practices of effective knowledge mobilisation

The Wales Centre for Public Policy is a knowledge brokering organisation that mobilises evidence to inform policy and public service practice. While the benefits of evidence-informed policy making and practice are persuasive, the extent to which they have been achieved is contested. Both require effective approaches to knowledge mobilisation, particularly at the local level where […]

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