The Evidence Policy Square is a stakeholder engagement platform that brings together peers to discuss, agree on policy priorities and continuously engage with evidence generated to inform its use for policy and decisions in a specific field. Users can raise questions about what evidence is needed, discuss those questions with one another, discuss the evidence that answers them, link that evidence to real policies, and reach an agreed position before the evidence is used to make decisions.
The Matching Q-M tool (the Matching policy and practice Questions to Methodological approaches tool) connects two critical parts of evidence support systems:_x000D_
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1. converting a decision-making need into a specific type of question_x000D_
2. having identified the type of question, providing the most suitable methodological approaches to address that question.