Counting What Counts: Ten Steps Toward Increasing the Relevance of Empirical Research in the UN System

This meeting note summarizes the key points and recommendations that emerged from an experts’ meeting convened by the International Peace Institute on November 30, 2005, at the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations. Participants included leading experts and academics, UN member-state representatives, and UN staff. The meeting focused on ways in which the UN system could be better informed by, and could utilize, evidence-based research.