Nowadays, more and more health and non-health EBPs are being prepared to address different issues by international organizations or academic groups, such as the Evidence-Informed Policy Network (EVIPNet). Moreover, these documents are developed as inputs into deliberative dialogues in which participants use the pre-circulated evidence brief as a ‘jumping off’ point for deliberations, while bringing their views and experiences to bear on the issue in support of EIP. Evidence briefs for policy (EBP, sometimes referred to as “policy briefs” or “evidence briefs”) are increasingly used to support EIP in both health and non-health sectors and they typically have the following characteristics: (1) starting with a priority policy issue based on policymakers’ perspectives (2) clearly presenting the nature and magnitude of the policy problem (3) formulating possible policy options based on evidence about benefits, harms, costs, stakeholder views and experiences, and other elements (4) combing global research evidence (prioritizing the best-available evidence syntheses related to the issue) and local evidence in a comprehensive and systematic way (5) providing potential facilitators of and barriers to the implementation of selected options, and strategies to leverage facilitators and address barriers. As an approach to ensuring policies and decisions are informed by the best available data and research evidence (e.g., systematic reviews), the concept of “evidence-informed policymaking” (EIP) includes helping clarify policy issues, frame options for addressing them, and identify implementation considerations. The need for evidence-informed policies and decisions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other global-development targets is increasingly and widely recognized among policymakers, managers, providers, the public, researchers, and other stakeholders.
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Registration We registered the protocol on the EQUATOR network. The decision-makers, researchers, journal editors, evaluators, and other stakeholders who support evidence-informed policymaking through the use of mechanisms like EBP will benefit from the STEP. It will directly address what and how information should be reported in EBP and contribute to improving their quality. Our protocol describes the development process for STEP.
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The key actions include: (1) developing a protocol (2) establishing an international multidisciplinary STEP working group (consisting of a Coordination Team and a Delphi Panel) (3) generating an initial draft of the potential items for the STEP reporting checklist through a comprehensive review of EBP-related literature and documents (4) conducting a modified Delphi process to select and refine the reporting checklist (5) using the STEP to evaluate published policy briefs in different countries (6) finalizing the checklist (7) developing the STEP statement and the user manual (8) translating the STEP into different languages and (9) testing the reliability through real world use. We will refer to and adapt the methods recommended by the EQUATOR (Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research) network. This project aims to develop a STandard reporting guideline of Evidence briefs for Policy (STEP), which will encompass a reporting checklist and a STEP statement and a user manual.
However, the reporting characteristics of EBP vary across organizations due to a lack of internationally accepted standard reporting guidelines. An increasing number of governments, non-governmental organizations and research groups have been developing EBP on a wide variety of topics. Evidence briefs for policy (EBP) draw on best-available data and research evidence (e.g., systematic reviews) to help clarify policy problems, frame options for addressing them, and identify implementation considerations for policymakers in a given context.