The Center for Strategic Planning and Policy Studies (CSPPS) is one of the three units of the College of Public Affairs and Development (CPAf) focused on generating timely, objective, and science-based policy research programs concerning public policy and decision making.

Recognizing the huge amount of underutilized research evidence in the AANR sector and the need to strengthen the capacities of policy actors and stakeholders, CSPSS took the lead to establish the DIP Lab in 2022.