2 Understanding and identifying policy-makers

In the previous section we covered why evidence-based policy development is important and saw examples of where AMR data has been used in policy-making. Anyone who wants to provide evidence for AMR policy should consider how their work could help policy-makers achieve the best policy decisions.

Now you are confident that AMR data is important for policy-making, and have considered how AMR data can inform policy decisions, we will move on to understanding how policy-making works, and identifying who policy-makers are. If you want to communicate effectively in policy-making systems, you will need to understand how policy-makers process evidence and the environment that they operate in.