Abel Abeh Ezeoha

TL;DR: It is pertinent to recognize policy development as political and complex process that proceeds through a set of stages from understanding agenda-setting, to exploring possible problem resolution options, weighing up costs and benefits, decision-making, and finally implementation, possibly followed by evaluation.

TL;DR: The results of this study suggest that through information literacy training workshop policy makers can acquire the knowledge and skill to identify, capture and share the right kind of information in the right contexts to influence relevant action or a policy decision.

TL;DR: In Nigeria, there is little interest in transfer and uptake of research into policy and practice, and strategies to enhance evidenceinformed policy making include: enhancing supply of policy-relevant research products, enhancing capacity of Policy-making organizations to use evidence, establishing new organizational mechanisms to support use of evidence in policy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors recommend policy options that emphasize the implementation of community-based participatory interventions to strengthen the government's Free Maternal and Child Health Care Programme (FMCHCP) as follows: Training community women on prenatal care, life-saving skills in case of emergency, reproductive health, care of the newborn and family planning.