The impact score was considerably higher for providing information for policy making (77%) than for influencing policy making (31%), However, CIs reported high impact scores both in providing information for (85%) and influencing organizational decision making (73%).
Legislative bodies, never mind wider publics, are also unable to scrutinize or hold to account decision making where there is a monopoly of technocratic elites in policy making [85].
In 1976, the Energy Modelling Forum was formed to 'foster better communication between the builders and users of energy models in energy planning and policy making' ([74], p. 449).
Proposals for the establishment of IFCs focus on the benefits that independent and transparent assessments and forecasts can bring to policy making [66, 73].
The KOPSS is a decision-support system that can provide analytical solutions for spatial problems involved in local policy making [13].
The SWB approach to valuing non-market goods is increasingly being employed by economists as an input to public policy making [23].
It is for this reason that the technocratic practices of IFCs should be seen as a legitimating practice and part of an increasing tendency to de-politicise policy making [83].
The aim of this paper has not been to evaluate the work of IFCs per se, but to consider the actual and potential role of futures in the interplay between the exertion of power and construction of meaning in long-term policy making [81].
I believe with strong implementation and government dedication, with the inclusion of girls in policy making, 2030 will be the start of a new era in Ethiopia in the consolidation of democracy and realization of national goals.
Hospital ECs were also considerably involved in policy making (55.5%).
Burden of disease data is an important input in evidence-informed policy making (12).
