When: 16th April 2026; 12:00-1:00 P.M. (IST)
Where: Virtual Event
Event Type: Participation by Invitation
The “Voices of Practice: A Series on Meaningful Community Engagement” is an initiative by the Community Engagement and Involvement (CEI) team of the NIHR Global Health Research Centre for Non-Communicable Diseases and Environmental Change and co-led by our Public Advisory Board to empower researchers and practitioners to integrate CEI principles into their work. Aligning with the centre’s goals of co-production, advocacy, and thought leadership, the series aims to create a space for learning, reflection, and dialogue to ensure research remains grounded in community realities and genuinely community owned.
Session | 4:
Title: From Evidence to Action- How Data Shapes Real Policy Decisions
Join us for the fourth session in this series with Dr. Yanuar Nugroho, former Deputy Chief of Staff to the President of Indonesia and an experienced policymaker, academic, and civil society advocate. With years spent inside the President’s Executive Office translating national priorities into people centred development plans, Dr. Nugroho brings a rare, insider perspective on how community voices, evidence, and advocacy truly shape or fail to shape public policy.
Drawing from his experience overseeing Indonesia’s priority programmes, advancing open government initiatives, and coordinating national SDG implementation, Dr. Nugroho will unpack what happens after advocacy reaches the halls of power.
Thematic Focus:
- An insider’s view of how governments interpret, respond to, and act upon advocacy and community demands
- Real examples of translating public input into national development plans and evidence-based policymaking
- Lessons from Indonesia’s open government and SDG implementation efforts, where transparency, citizen input, and accountability played a central role
Whether you work in community advocacy, research, programme design, or policy, this session will offer a grounded, practitioner’s perspective on how community led advocacy becomes policy reality and how systems can be designed to make that influence lasting, equitable, and meaningful.
Come discover what it looks like when advocacy reaches the policymaker’s desk and how communities can shape not just decisions, but the systems behind them.
