July 2020
Researching assumptions from Dialogue & Dissent
It is common to evaluate research projects and programmes. It it less conventional to scientifically evaluate whether the assumptions behind an entire policy framework were correct. Yet that is exactly what happened with Dialogue & Dissent. This was the policy framework from which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs supported lobby and advocacy activities in the South between 2016 and 2020. Led by INCLUDE and NWO-WOTRO, eight research groups investigated whether CSOs play the roles we ascribe to them. Together with designer Gijsbert Raadgever (Akimoto), Menno made a digital magazine about the results of this so-called Assumptions programme.