Failure to change --- The most obvious indicator would be failing to influence change of behavior. In other words, for an academic who is now in a policy role, the individual must see the touch of the work feeding into the government work. If nothing has changed, let's say in national policies, M&E processes or strategies then this means that this individual failed to inform the policy he/she was in charge of.

Having said that, it is also difficult, at least for a country like mine, to have an academic expert to take a policy role with the government. This person may come from scientific semi-governmental or national research organizations. People with more experience in the non-academic world.

Misuse of the input, may be taken as an indicator of the weak communication or language used in these dialogues or even worse: corruption am afraid, and that's a whole different story.

Source author: Muna Zaqsaw zaqsaw.muna89@gmail.com