The Africa Evidence Network (AEN) is proud to launch a series of 40 maps on evidence ecosystems map(s) in Africa. Maps were produced as part of the bursary conditions for attendance at Evidence 2016 and Evidence 2018 conference. These bursaries were provided as part of the University of Johannesburg’s Programme to Build Capacity for the Use of Research Evidence (UJ-BCURE), funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) in 2016 and in 2018 the AEN was funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
This African evidence ecosystems maps series is the first of its kind and follows on evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) maps produced by the UJ-BCURE programme on South Africa and Malawi. The series is unique in its diversity and comprehensiveness and consists of maps from ten different countries as well as two maps that span more than one country. The majority of maps are on Malawi (5) and Uganda (8), but maps from other countries include: Ethiopia (4), Cameroon (3), Zimbabwe (3), South Africa (3), Kenya (3), Tanzania (2), Nigeria (3), Zambia (1),Tunisia (1), Ghana (1), Eswatini (1) and Senegal (1). The two maps spanning more than a single country map the work of the Africa Gender Development Evaluators Network (AGDEN) and the African Capacity Building Foundation. The maps furthermore cover a wide range of sectors such as health and the environment; as well as evidence use by particular groups (such as Parliamentarians in Uganda, Malawi and Tunisia).
We would like to thank the authors of these maps for their contributions towards a series that leaves us with a much better understanding of the EIDM ecosystem(s) – both similarities and differences – across the African continent.
Guidance for landscape mapping
2016
1. Bagyendera – Evidence-informed decision-making landscape for Uganda
2. Bhowa – Open applications and evidence landscape (Zimbabwe)
3. Cherif – Tunisia, evidence-based policy-making by parliamentarians
4. Chitanda – Evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM): Nutrition leadership for Zambia
5. Govender – Rapid landscape review map: Health NGO sector in South Africa
9. Kalugendo – Knowledge in support of climate change adaptation (Tanzania)
10. Longwe-Ngwira – The EIDM rapid landscape review map in Malawi’s health sector
12. Manyonga – Evidence-informed decision-making landscape map for Parliament of Malawi
13. Mbeye – Mapping out evidence-informed decision-making landscape for health research in Malawi
14. Mitambo – Landscape for evidence-informed policy-making in Malawi health sector
15. Morankar – Electronic rapid landscape review map – Ethiopian Evidence Based Health Care Center
16. Mpagi-Kaabule – Parliamentary Forum on Development Evaluation (APNODE) – Uganda
17. Munatsi – Zimbabwe EIDM evidence landscape map
18. Mutua – Evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) landscape map for Kenya
20. Ndongwe – Institutional EIDM landscape map (Zimbabwe)
22. Obuku – Rapid landscape review map: A navigation guide to the R2P jungle in Uganda
23. Okem – Rapid landscape review map: Climate change & poverty reduction co-benefits, South Africa
24. Tambala – Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PME): The way to go for effective EIDM (Malawi)
2018
1. Bagyendera – Uganda Evidence Ecosystem Map
2. Emaasit – The key players in the evidence ecosystem of parliament of Uganda
6. Makawia – Tanzania evidence ecosystem: Experience of socio-economic research and M&E institutions
7. Morankar – Electronic Rapid Landscape Review Map
8. Nnaji – Mapping the vaccine and immunization evidence ecosystem in Nigeria
9. Obuku – Rapid Landscape Review Map: A navigation guide to the R2P jungle in Uganda
10. Oduwole – Evidence ecosystem for knowledge translation in Nigeria
11. Pambe – An overview of the main role player in Cameroon evidence ecosystem
12. Patterson – Ecosystem of Evidence-Based Vaccinology in South Africa
13. Sampong – Evidence ecosystem map: Ghana Environmental Protection Agency
14. Seydi – Developing resilience to recurrent food insecurity in Senegal: evidence ecosystem map