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Antimicrobial resistance, the ability of (pathogenic) bacteria to withstand the action of antibiotic drugs (Nolte O et al., 2014; Ferri M et al., 2017). WHO (2018) describe antimicrobial resistance (A...

  Photo credit: World Bank Photo Collection/Flickr   If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation or watch the recorded webinar.  Evidence-...

Abstract submissions for oral and poster presentations for Evidence 2018 are now closed and we are very excited by the positive response. In total, 119 abstracts have been received, which is a substan...

  Background Globally, it is not in doubt, that we are living in the most extraordinary times of our generation – positively and negatively. For instance, the fast-evolving technolo...

  Dans les pays en voie de développement, où les ressources sont souvent limitées, l'utilisation de données probantes dans la conception et la gestion des polit...

  Not all workshop participants worked equally hard “It’s worse than pulling teeth!” “I’ve had enough now. No more! Can this just end!” “This rolle...

Diana Warira makes a presentation on the role of communication in enhancing the use of demographic dividend research in Africa at The Wilson Center in April 2018. Photo copyright: The Wilson Center ...

The blog article was first published by the University of the Witwatersrand's Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results, Anglophone Africa (CLEAR-AA).  How we curate and use infor...

  AFRICA EVIDENCE LEADERSHIP AWARD 2022: TERMS OF REFERENCE VEUILLEZ NOTER: Les nominations en anglais ou en français seront acceptées. Nous pouvons fournir une traduction fra...

AFRICA EVIDENCE LEADERSHIP AWARD 2023: TERMS OF REFERENCE OVERVIEW OF THE AFRICA EVIDENCE NETWORK  We believe that only together will evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) become a reali...

Charting a path through the unknown to an imagined destination (April 2021) So soon, the week-long celebration came to an end – in the midst of brilliant demonstration of evidence-informed de...

Evidence weeks were conceptualised by the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) to draw the focus of the global evidence-informed decision-making community to a specific issue or talkin...

Photo credit:  Physiopedia Rehabilitation is a universal and vital component of healthcare globally. This is of particular importance in low- and middle-income countries where disability ...

There is no dispute over the importance of using evidence to inform policy-making. This has been demonstrated by a number of policies informed by evidence, for example the growth with equity policy in...

Dr Justina Onumah, is the recipient of the Africa Evidence Leadership Award 2023 in the Evidence Producer category offered by the Africa Evidence Network. We caught up with Justina about rec...

The last day of the Africa Evidence Network Colloquium was reserved for practical in-depth training sessions in core skills related to EIDM. This included among other training in research synthesis, p...

Velia Manyonga is the inaugural recipient of the Africa Evidence Leadership Award offered by the Africa Evidence Network. Based in Malawi and working with parliamentarians there, we ask...

  The future of the world is littered in zeros and ones. Many commentators have rightfully claimed that “data is the new oil”. Without a doubt, personal data is quickly becoming th...

  Water scarcity is a pressing challenge faced by developing countries due to increasing urbanisation and industrial development, which leads to competing demands for limited water resources...

  Photo credit: Unsplash images How time flies – soon a year had passed. In October 2021, I was selected to take part in the Corporate Evidence Leadership Mentorship Programme (CEP-MP...

  If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation or watch the recorded webinar. Photo: Worldbank Photo Collection/Flickr Background  While ev...

  Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi, is the recipient of the Africa Evidence Leadership Award 2022 in the Evidence Producer category offered by the Africa Evidence Network. We caught up with Eucharia ab...

On the 8th March 2016, the Africa Evidence Network (AEN) hosted a road show in Blantyre, Malawi to promote the network and its activities to organisations in Malawi that are focused on evidence-i...

About 50 Brazilian institutions that work in the field of evidence-informed policymaking (EIP) have been engaged since April in the Brazilian Coalition of Evidence. Articulated by Instituto Vered...

The VakaYiko Consortium is made up of five core organizations and seven grantees. INASP is leading this Consortium. Together we’re working to build capacity for evidence...

  Governments are continually under pressure to deliver greater value to their citizens, businesses, and communities. This pressure is exacerbated by citizens' expectations of better, mo...

Announcement for inviting applications for participation in the 4th BRICs Young Scientist Conclave. Date: 6 - 8 November, 2019 - Themes: Cybersecurity and Bioeconomy - Venue: Campinas, ...

In response to a number of requests, we have agreed to extend the deadline for applications for The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science School, Pretoria 13-  24 January 2020 to 31 October 2019. U...

  The field of evidence-informed decision-making in Africa has gone from strength to strength over the last decade. We have seen a growth in the number of people engaged in producing and using...

From left to right: Kirchuffs Atengble (PACKS Africa), Emily Hayter (INASP) and Ruth Stewart (ACE)    This blog post is based on the third webinar of the Evidence Capacities webinar seri...

  If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation or watch the recorded webinar. This blog post is based on the fourth webinar of the Evidence 2023 ...

  If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation or watch the recorded webinar. This blog post is based on the first webinar of the Evidence 2023 capacities webinar se...

  Building a database of organisations that conduct capacity development for evidence-use in Africa Flowing from the AEN’s Manifesto on Capacity Development for Evidence-Informed Deci...

Josephine Watera, is the recipient of the Africa Evidence Leadership Award 2022 in the Evidence User category offered by the Africa Evidence Network. We asked Josephine to reflect on what wi...

  I had the honour of joining the Africa Evidence Network (AEN) as a member and then became the head of operations in 2017. The AEN is an African network open to all with an interest in eviden...

Veredas is a Brazilian non-governmental organisation (NGO) that was created in 2016 to build bridges between public management, universities, and civil society, fostering greater access to technical a...

The Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results for Anglophone Africa (CLEAR-AA) at University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) has the following vacancies: 1)  “Young and Emerging Eva...

For most of my professional life, I worked in community development projects. It has always been a part of my responsibility to capture and share impact in the form of success stories. I would write n...

  The question of Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) in schools has been overlooked in educational policy interventions. While there has been much talk about ‘making the school environme...

IMAGE: Petra teaching her 3-5years children in their transformed pre-school setting (Bambili, 2019) Since 2016, civil disobedience operations, school boycotts, destruction and closure of sch...

  Last-minute additions. Constant telephone conversations with colleagues are miles away. Twitter-fatigue (if that’s a thing). It’s difficult to capture what pulling of an Africa E...

  Background  The increasing importance of poverty with one-fifth of the world's population still living in extreme poverty there remains a vital need to identify intervent...

  Over the past few years, ACED has been very active in making Benin’s ecosystem of  evidence use work better. We have implemented several activities and improved our  understa...

The EVIDENCE conferences are Africa’s preeminent event for all those in the region with a dedication to evidence-informed decision-making. This year’s event – EVIDENCE 2018 ...

Have you ever wanted to complete a funding proposal that calls for collaboration between yourself and people from somewhere in the world where you have no contacts? The team at the Collaboration ...

We are 81 days away from the biggest gathering of the evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) community in Africa: Evidence 2016 will be taking place at the Council for Scientific and ...

  SGBV (sexual and gender-based violence) is a global problem that disproportionately affects women and girls. People living in rural areas like Ntanka (crisis-hit zone) are already a disadv...

  The COVID-19 pandemic has created an immediate and urgent need for more and better data and evidence to help the government make informed decisions and in designing public intervention progr...

When the Europeans arrived Cameroon in the 17th Century, they were surprised to meet a king in the Bamoum Kingdom North of the Rio dos Cameroes with a map, statistics, and wri...

  Delegates from 20 countries at the Evidence 2016 conference in Pretoria, South Africa Day one of #Evidence2016 saw many of delegates from 20 countries and 16 within African states and out...

The second day of the 2014 Africa Evidence colloquium marked the advance of the researchers into the colloquium spotlight. Had the first day seen presentations from government officials on EIDM in Afr...

  Cross governmental panel representatives from South African departments: DPSA, DPME, DST, PSPPD and National Treasury Day two of #evidence2016 aimed at understanding the evidence. The foc...

  Evidence 2016 Day 3 graphic recording by Nicolene Louw from Fine-Line Over the last two days, we learn about engaging with the evidence and grappled with how it should be understood ...

Blog originally published on the Young 1ove website In March 2020, the onset of COVID-19 and school closures in Botswana presented an opportunity to pivot our education programs to remote inst...

  This blog post is based on the second webinar of the new Evidence Capacities webinar series, hosted by the Africa Evidence Network (AEN). Th...

Photo: Talitha Mpando The evidence ecosystem on the continent is one which is growing every day, as leaders remain determined to push the agenda of enhancing evidence use for policy and practi...

The unpredictability of the COVID-19 virus and the resultant lockdown measures implemented by African governments to contain its spread raised legitimate questions on the impact of the restrictions on...

  Africa Evidence Network Capacity in Africa Survey Report 2017 A Nobel prize-winning economist, Robert Lucas once said: “ONCE you start thinking about growth, it’s hard to thin...

  By Louis Gerald Maluwa  Professional Evaluation is a relatively new discipline which evolved from various academic fields into an independent scientific discipline in the early ...

Image source: eBASE Africa IDRC Supports eBASE Africa Assess the Impact of Mis/Disinformaion on use of Research Evidence in Public Policy Decision Making in West and Central Africa in a Season of C...

In June 2018 at the JBI collaboration colloquium in Antwerp, eBASE Africa initiated a bold concept of evidence implementation with iScientia Belgium to increase the use of existing guidelines through ...

  The South African education sector, like other countries in the world, is faced with challenges due to the emergence of COVID-19. One of the ways of controlling the spread of this virus...

One of the things the Africa Evidence Network (AEN) secretariat this year has focused on showcasing innovative evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) in Africa. Some of the highlights from 2019...

  As the Senior Manager for Strategy at the Africa Evidence Network, I had the privilege as well as the daunting task of summarising key elements of AEN’s EVIDENCE 2020 ONLINE collo...

Introduction The last decade has witnessed the growth in accountability, by donors who demand to know how their funds are utilized, and by the citizenry, who increasingly expect governments to be a...

Photo Credit: Brittany Hammonds   “Practice is a shared history of learning. Practice is conversational. Communities of Practice are groups of people who share a concern or a pas...

The fishery sector and related industries in Benin provide up to 32% of the animal proteins consumed by people and generate employment for around 600 000 people,&nbs...

  “Change is not always bad. Change can be good.” By Dries van Noten Currently, here in South Africa, the seasons are changing. Autumn slowly bids us goodbye as winter says hell...

  In this first episode of the disability blog series, we narrate how using evidence recommendations can improve the livelihoods of children with disabilities (CWDs). We used a rigorous a...

  In this episode of the disability blog series, we discuss how evidence can be used to reduce stigma and debunk myths for better livelihoods for people with disabilities at the family and com...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, or watch the recorded webinar. In this episode of the disability blog series, we describe how engaging policy-makers ...

If you are interested in this topic watch the recorded launch party video.    At the end of March, the Africa Evidence Network slid into your inbox with its brand-new offering: A podca...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, read more in the blog post, read the study report, or watch the recorded webinar.  The Africa Evi...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, read more in the blog post, or watch the recorded webinar.  The Africa Evidence Network (AEN) hosted its 7t...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, read more in the blog post, or watch the recorded webinar. The Africa Evidence Network hosted the 8th Africa Evi...

If you are interested in this topic, you can review the webinar presentation, or read more in the blog post. The Africa Evidence Network (AEN) hosted the 9th #AfricaEvidenceWebinar entitl...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, read more in the blog post, or watch the recorded webinar. On 4 September 2020, the Africa Evidence Network hosted the #AfricaE...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, read more in the blog post, or watch the recorded webinar. The Africa Evidence Network hosted the #AfricaEvidenceWebinar entitl...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, read more in the blog post, or watch the recorded webinar. The Africa Evidence Network hosted the #AfricaEvidenceWebinar entitl...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, or watch the recorded webinar. The Africa Evidence Network hosted the #AfricaEvidenceWebinar entitled: "Virtual confe...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, read more in the blog post, or watch the recorded webinar. The Africa Evidence Network hosted the #AfricaEvidenceWebinar e...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, read more in the blog post, or watch the recorded webinar.  The Africa Evidence Network hosted its first session of t...

  If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, you can read more in the blog post, or watch the recorded webinar. The Africa Evidence Network hosted ...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, or watch the recorded webinar. The Africa Evidence Network hosted its fifth session of the Evidence 2023 capacities w...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, read more in the blog post, or watch the recorded webinar. The Africa Evidence Network hosted its third ses...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, read more in the blog post, or watch the recorded webinar. The Africa Evidence Network hosted its second s...

  If you are interested in learning more about the evidence capacities community of practice, you can view the guidelines, or watch the recording. The Africa Evidence Network launched the ...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, read more in the blog post, or watch the recorded webinar.  On the 19th of September 2022, the Africa Evidence Networ...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, read more in the blog post, or watch the recorded webinar.  On the 19th of September 2022, the Africa Evidence Networ...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, read more in the blog post, or watch the recorded webinar.  On the 20th of September 2022, the Africa Evidence Networ...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, read more in the blog post, or watch the recorded webinar.  On the 20th of September 2022, the Africa Evidence Networ...

Photo credit: Eric Ngang   I joined the AEN in 2015. I got fully engaged in 2016 when I took part in the conference in Pretoria and presented my work on using local knowledge and practices ...

  Evidence 2016 graphic recording is by Nicolene Louw from Fine-Line Our Africa Evidence Network team at the University of Johannesburg is still buzzing from the excitement o...

  EVIDENCE 2018 will take place from 25-28 September 2018, and registration for the event opens 1 March 2018. This is the third biennial event by the Africa Evidence Network and...

Evidence 2018 is approaching, and our excitement is growing! In this post two strand leaders write about why these  strands are important for Africa. In the next blog, the other two strands will ...

  EVIDENCE 2016 delegates at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria/Tshwane, South Africa.   So you are preparing for EVIDENCE 2018 and have all the expectat...

  This blog post first appeared on the Abdul Jameel Latif Poverty Action Lab's blog. Many countries have witnessed a surge in cases of domestic violence due to the onse...

Teaching the general public first aid as a means to increase communities’ resilience is one of the main goals of the International Red Cross/Red Crescent movement. Research has shown that this...

This blog is the first of a three-part series to celebrate the first anniversary of the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Research group of the Ghana Physiotherapy Association (GPA). The core mandate of t...

  Background  The Latin American and Caribbean Evidence Hub (Hub LAC) was created in 2022 to promote transnational and interdisciplinary collaboration for the institutionalization of e...

The Deputy Minister for Youth Development and Economic  Empowerment Honourable Mathias Tongofa giving a key note address during the ‘Youth Build Zimbabwe Symposium’ Zimbabwe i...

In 2016, eBASE Africa a JBI affiliated group in collaboration with CamCoSo a Cochrane affiliated consumer group in Cameroon, started work with traditional story tellers, poets...

Last week, the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation’s (3ie) annual report was released carrying the well-established title of Evidence. Influence. Impact. The report, once mo...

  It is a wonderful time to part of the Global Evidence Community: production of rigorous and policy-relevant research evidence is increasing, governments, NGOs, and practitioners aim to ...

  Over 70% of Nigeria's population is classified as poor, with 35% living in absolute poverty. Poverty is especially severe in rural areas, where social services and infrastructure are lim...

In Benin, the Evidence-Policy-Action (EPA) Network is established to create a functional and multi-stakeholders’ platform between evidence generators (researchers,&...

  As an African traveling overseas one is bound to encounter some of the many misconceptions the rest of the world seems to have developed about Africa. Africa might be a country, or it might ...

  African scientists are daily producing new knowledge and insights into how to support socio-economic development across the continent. Often, however, this research and its findings is only ...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, or watch the recorded webinar. The ecosystem around evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) has been growing steadily in Afric...

  Background  Being physically active and exercise is one of the most important actions individuals of all ages can engage in to improve their health. Many factors may influence ...

L’Organisation Ouest-Africaine de la Santé (OOAS), l’institution spécialisée en santé de la Communauté Economique des Etas de l’Afrique de l’...

The West African Health Organization (WAHO), is the specialized health institution of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). One of its missions is to promote research to co...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation. On Wednesday 26 August, the Africa Evidence Network hosted a panel discussion on African experiences around the ...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, or watch the recorded webinar. Evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) is critical for all knowledge economies ...

Photo: Africa Evidence Network Evidence Capacities Webinar four participants This blog post is based on the fourth webinar of the Evidence Capacities webinar series, hosted by the Africa Evidence N...

  Over the last two decades, Africa’s research output has grown eight folds. Between the years, 2000 and 2020, African research output as a percentage to world research output grew by al...

Evidence-informed policy-making or decision-making (EIPM or EIDM) is most often referred to in the context of government decision-making as it relates to the consideration of good quality evidence (id...

Knowledge and information sharing are two of the main reasons people join the Africa Evidence Network (AEN). More specifically, demand for more capacity development for evidence production and use com...

  Plenary one at the Global Evidence Summit 2017 Attending the 2017 Global Evidence Summit (GES) in Cape Town as a young and emerging researcher was profound academically, personally and so...

  Plenary one at the Global Evidence Summit 2017 Attending the 2017 Global Evidence Summit (GES) in Cape Town as a young and emerging researcher was profound academically, personally and so...

I suppose most of us might be familiar with the famous joining the gym dilemma. In the quest of keeping to one’s new year’s resolution, earlier in the year an overly ambitious past-persona...

On 3 June 2015, the Africa Evidence Network (AEN), in collaboration with the Anglophone Africa Centre for Learning, Evaluation and Results (CLEAR-AA), held its 2015 regional meeting in Johannesburg, S...

First published on the Guidelines International Network (GIN) website The guidelines international network (G-I-N) is an international network of individuals and organisations whose mission is...

Optimal health is a major determinant of any sustainable development worldwide. Recognition of this factor is gradually attracting a compulsory investment to achieve Agenda 2063 aspiration of: A ...

What does 2021 hold for the Africa Evidence Network (AEN) during the coronavirus outbreak? For the AEN, what an exciting year this has been! Not only did the Network have ambitious plans for increased...

My colleagues and I on the secretariat of the AEN are overwhelmed by the festivities from all across Africa during Africa Evidence Week. We are proud of (but not surprised by!) the wealth of evidence-...

  #EU4Facts panel from left to right: Former European Commissioners Janez Potocnik and Marie Ceoghegan-Quinn and European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Tibor Navrac...

As of 18 May 2020, Africa has over 60 000 confirmed cases of COVID-19. The spread of the virus has not only affected people’s everyday lives but has put a toll on the health, economy, and p...

  Ms Adeline Sibanda speaking at the Evidence 2016 conference in Pretoria, South Africa Building evaluation capacity can be achieved in a number of ways: from conferences where de...

At the best of times, it is hard to know which interventions work best and under what conditions in public schools in developing countries. What makes this harder is the knowledge that most developing...

  Monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL). Sometimes just thinking about it can make us break out into a cold sweat. Nearly everyone I have worked with knows it is important – like ea...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, watch the recorded webinar, or read the study report. The AEN Evidence 2020 is a biennial event hosted by the Af...

The first day of the 2014 Africa Evidence Network colloquium brought together over a hundred international and national delegates at the University of Johannesburg to discuss the theory and practice o...

  Many countries in Africa are using monitoring and evaluation (M&E) as part of their efforts to improve the performance of the public sector through evidence-informed decision-making. A k...

  he participants who attended the Collaborative Workshop on Evidence-based Policy-making that was held at SAPPI Technology Centre in Pretoria on 19 and 20 November 2008. Image: CSIR If you...

In Cameroon and most of Africa, food is usually prepared by women and children on a three stones fireside. They usually spend hours gathering wood and several more hours cooking food. Women and childr...

  If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation or watch the recorded webinar. This blog post is based on the third webinar of the Evidence 2023 c...

  If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation or watch the recorded webinar. This blog post is based on the second webinar of the Evidence 2023 ...

  EVIDENCE 2018 is breaking down the boundaries of traditional academic conferences, with this year’s event offering more features to enhance the inclusivity and innovation of the event....

This blog post is based on the first webinar of the new Evidence Capacities webinar series, hosted by the Africa Evidence Network (AEN). The AEN Evidence Capacities webinar series aims to create a pla...

This is the second blog discussing a recent paper by DPME’s Harsha Dayal on the use of evidence to reflect on South Africa’s 20 years of democracy. The first AEN blog introducing the paper...

Governments across the globe are progressively realizing the significance of research synthesis in health policy and systems decision-making processes. Research evidence is required to ...

There is no magic or silver bullet to encourage government departments to increase their use of evidence in decision-making, whether working internally or externally to government. This is the main...

The challenge of modern governments is to deliver high quality and accessible services that transform people’s lives and lead to societies that are prosperous and caring. How you achieve that...

(The Information and Communication Technologies in Education group grapples with issues in their field-with facilitator Dr Batchelor from the University of Johannesburg) There is no magic or silver...

Growing up, my mother would often regale me with stories about her childhood. A child of newly independent Kenya, she spent her formative years shuttling between the village and the city, for holidays...

  Gloria Anderson is the recipient of the Africa Evidence Leadership Award 2022 in the Evidence Users category offered by the Africa Evidence Network. We caught up with Gloria about recei...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, or watch the recorded webinar. When you want to know which direction to take, ask others. This adage can be...

  Ms Jennifer Mutua, Former board representative to AFREA As the immediate former elected AFREA board representative for Eastern Africa (the hosts), the 8th conference gave me great pr...

  Background  As noted in a new study on the role of scientific evidence in the UN General Assembly, ‘science has very little representation within the current institutional arra...

With under three months to go until EVIDENCE 2018 opens to explode the divide between evidence producers and users, we have finalised the satellite sessions being offered before the official...

  In Tanzania, 27% of young women starting childbearing by the age of 19. Yet adolescent pregnancy contributes to poor health outcomes. High-quality, timely and localised evidence for scalab...

Not having sufficient evidence to understand a developmental problem and how to act on it can result in inefficient decision-making which can be costly in a resource-poor environment such as Malawi. H...

The Evidence 2016 conference is happening from 20-22 September 2016 at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria. The conference chair Dr Shanil Haricharan shares his thoughts abo...

Systematic reviews claim to present the gold standard when it comes to research synthesis. Vested in a rigorous and transparent methodological protocol, systematic review findings are regarded as auth...

My name is Luvuyo Zigana, a 25-year-old environmental anthropologist by training and a policy developer by profession. I am an astute and experienced professional with expertise in policy development ...

  Evidence 2016 landscape maps and posters graphic recording  The Africa Evidence Network (AEN) is proud to launch a series of 25 maps on the evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) l...

  Imagine this: you have come into some cash and you want to go on a road trip with some friends. You decide on your desired destination (which in evaluation terms, we shall refer to as the ul...

  This blog post is based on a proposed dissertation that aims to study how public libraries and their stakeholders understand their impact and use impact assessment in the post-colonial pub...

  Background  Entering tertiary education can present challenges for young people: they are in a new and unfamiliar setting which typically provides less structure than high scho...

Evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) in South Africa is growing: there is an increasing number of researchers and research institutions that are eager to share and tailor their research findings t...

  For continued inclusive and sustainable economic growth, Africa’s people and industries rely on natural assets, the maintenance of which are rarely built into businesses’ botto...

  The social, health and economic burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to the South African economy and social fabric has not gone unnoticed. South Africa has frequently updated its stra...

The Zimbabwe national Alcohol policy was drafted in 2011 and to date it has not been passed into law which is a very worrisome situation. Another key question is that who led the alcohol policy making...

The Africa Evidence Network (AEN) secretariat has been working on rebuilding the AEN's website over the last five months, launching the first phase of the new evidence-informed decision-making (EI...

  Access to high-quality research is key to evidence-informed policymaking. The number of African knowledge repositories is increasing and has the potential to enable better access to more evi...

Mapula Tshangela is the second recipient of the Africa Evidence Leadership Award offered by the Africa Evidence Network. We caught up with Mapula about receiving the award and asked her some questions...

  Have you ever picked up a report you were sure was extremely valuable in terms of the knowledge contained, but struggled to get past a few pages? Or maybe you have published something you ...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, or watch the recorded webinar. At Effective Basic Services - eBASE Africa, promoting the use of research evidence by policy-mak...

Picture: Africa Evidence Network - Carina van Rooyen, Rose Oronje and Rhona Mijumbi  This blog post is based on the fifth webinar of the Evidence Capacities webinar series, hosted by the Afric...

  Peer education is a popular concept whose history can be traced back as far as the history of Aristotle and there have been many peer education initiatives throughout history. It is worthy t...

  Twende Mbele launch at the 8th International African Evaluation Association conference in kampala, Uganda Photo credit: CLEAR- AA Twende Mbele is an initiative that began in 201...

I am in awe of what we can achieve as a collective in Africa. EVIDENCE 2020 ONLINE is just one example of many great things happening in our beautiful continent. The Africa Evidence Network (AEN) host...

Policy dialogues can really contribute to evidence-informed policies. They provide a platform for policy-makers to consider different evidence, values, beliefs and experiences around a policy issue. A...

An introduction by Laurenz Langer to Harsha Dayal´s Knowledge Sector Initiative Working Paper 7 As researchers in the evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) space, we often debate, som...

South Africa is a vibrant space for evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) with an increasingly global reputation. The country’s Department for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME)&...

  South Africa is a vibrant space for evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) with an increasingly global reputation. The country’s Department for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluati...

Last month our UJ-BCURE programme reached its halfway milestone, an event coinciding with our regional AEN meeting. The team since had some time to reflect on the programme’s progress so far as ...

  Aims of the study  From April 2022 to March 2023, data was collected on the dynamics of poverty and the characteristics of people not impacted by the implementation of the SDGs in th...

Effective Basic Services (eBASE) Africa, is a multinational collaborativee organisation with headquarters in Bamenda, Cameroon. eBASE Africa is active in implementing charity and development projects ...

  When we started working with policymakers in Benin to improve evidence use in decision making, one of our main hypotheses was that evidence use was low because decision makers did not h...

Background: Trial investigators have an ethical responsibility to disseminate their findings. This is traditionally done by publishing in peer-reviewed journals. Whether the tested intervention is s...

Globally and within Malawi, there is often disconnect between the work of policymakers, researchers and frontline clinicians. Without institutionalized exchange and collaboration, researchers are ofte...

The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship programme funds students to travel abroad so they may engage in meaningful learning and professional experiences.  The Africa Centre for Evidenc...

Temitope Olawunmi Sogbanmu, is the recipient of the Africa Evidence Leadership Award 2022 in the Evidence Intermediaries category offered by the Africa Evidence Network. We caught up with Temitop...

Evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) uses a variety of tools to support the policy-making process including evidence maps and systematic reviews. These tools allow researchers to synthesise resear...

  The 6th South African M&E Association conference shows the changing evidence usage landscape. What stood out for me as a data-nerd is: (1) it is the first year that the confere...

  The 6th South African M&E Association conference shows the changing evidence usage landscape. What stood out for me as a data-nerd is: (1) it is the first year that the confere...

  Evidence 2016 Training workshop on  government evaluations graphic recording  A shift over time Fifteen years ago, in 2001, I had the privilege of working on the HIVSA p...

This blog post first appeared on the IDInsight website; click here to view the original post. As Chris Chibwana, IDinsight’s Africa Lead and Partner, departs IDinsight, he shares five valuabl...

Day 3 at #AEN2014 was all about the network, networks, and the individuals making up networks. It served also as the official closure of the colloquium and an opportunity to reflect on and review thre...

If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation, or watch the recorded webinar. The use of evidence to inform decision-making in policy and practice&nb...

  Background  Evidence-based social science has its roots in the development of evidence-based medicine, the evidence is the core and foundation of evidence-based social scienc...

  This session will introduce participants to the SAMEA virtual evaluation guideline - a free digital resource - and share experiences and lessons learned from virtual evaluation practice in S...

Findings from IDinsight's assessment show children spent less time learning, had difficulty using the internet for remote learning, and girls faced unique challenges. The full report can be read h...

The use of research evidence to inform decision-making can increase the efficacy and relevance of policies and practices. From the US federal regulation on blood alcohol limits, to the design and fund...

‘So what exactly are the best ways of getting research used by decision-makers? Evidence rarely speaks for itself and you may have witnessed some impressive ways for research to get noticed and ...

The United Republic of Tanzania is one of the participating member states in the Generation Equality Global Campaign and has adopted thematic area on Economic Justice and Rights as a vehicle towards t...

Most disability-related scholarly literature focuses on high-income countries, whereas there is a lack of data concerning challenges and opportunities (participatory research and community engagement)...

Limited access to services by Persons with Disabilities is a growing concern around the world, but especially in Africa. While countries have signed up to global instruments such as the Convention on ...

Cancer causes an immense and growing burden, in particular in Africa where limited policies and systems are in place to prevent and manage cases. Effective policy making in cancer requires listening a...

There is power in using evidence to inform decisions and parliaments have a constitutional obligation to represent the people by articulating the views of citizens and facilitating inclusion of margin...

  This presentation will report on a new project that is constructing an innovative policy-facing ‘what works’ toolkit for youth employment in Africa. The project comprises (i) an ...

  Background  Educational attainment in countries of the Lake Chad Basin is amongst the lowest in the globe. Governments efforts have led to significant improvements in access to educa...

  Evidence portals are useful platforms for knowledge brokering especially for LMICs where access to research evidence is crippled by paywalls, low skills and knowledge of scientific language....

After Africa develops the suggested framework to align the implementation of Agenda 2063 with the global Sustainable Development Goals (Agenda 2030), the realization of both agendas will be cohesive a...

  ACRC's Theory of Change: African Cities Research Consortium African cities are experiencing rapid urbanization, with unprecedented investments in housing, infrastructure and basi...

To enhance their evaluation capacities, increasingly, evaluators have appreciated the need to belong and identify with professional organisations, commonly referred to as Voluntary Organizations for P...

  Parliaments are the legislative authority of the state and indispensable institutions of representative democracies mandated to perform three core functions of representation, legislation an...

  Background  The Rwanda Economy Digitalisation programme, which is implemented by Cenfri in partnership with the Rwandan Ministry of ICT and Innovation and support from the Mastercard...

  Institutionalisation of a culture of evidence-informed decision making (EIDM) has continued to dominate the policy debates and conversations across Africa in the recent past. Indeed, polic...

  If you are interested in learning more about the topic, you can read the full paper here or view the presentation here. Education systems need to withstand frequent shocks, including...

  Background Evaluation is one of the credible sources of evidence. In this vein, a National Evaluation Capacities Index (INCE), a multistakeholder initiative with origins in Latin Am...

  Background: Despite progress in access to education, a global learning crisis remains, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, where 90% of children lack reading comprehension skills by age 10...

TAS addresses issues around poor knowledge of what SGBV is, ignorance of existing medical policies and laws, ignorance of available services, and low uptake of medical and legal services. Stories o...

  Background Evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) increases transparency and accountability in the policy-making process, can reduce the waste of public resources, minimises unintended ...

  Introduction  Systematic reviews and meta-analyses (SRM) can be very useful in the development of evidence-based practices and the formulation of policies. The aim of this stud...

  Background:   Weak capacities for evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) have been identified as barriers to EIDM in many low- and middle-income countries. EIDM capacity...

"Embracing change and questioning established methods can be challenging." We know that better evidence has the potential to lead to better decisions and better outcomes. Over the las...

  Background  The use of evidence to inform decisions plays an important role in improving policy, programme, and practice. However, weak capacity for evidence use in policy and ...

  Evidence-Informed Decision Making (EIDM) is crucial to developing sustainable health policies in low-middle-income countries, whose health ministries are often underfunded and overburdened. ...

  Background  Currently evidence is not optimally used in decision-making in Malawi’s health sector due to barriers such as the ministry’s lack of capacity and mechan...

  Background: Evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) is an approach that aims to ensure policy decision-making is informed by the best available evidence. It enables scarce resources to be u...

  To explore more on the topic, you can read the presentation. At the level of the international community, the use of monitoring  and evaluation systems, which play a strategic  ...

  Background and rationale: Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have made significant contributions in the development sectors of low-and-middle-income countries for decades post-independenc...

  The use of evidence to inform decisions plays an important role in improving policy, programme, and practice. However, the weak capacity for evidence use in policy and programme decisions ...

  Background  Youth unemployment in Uganda is about 64%-70%, and about 400,000 youths are released annually into the job market, yet only about 9,000 available jobs. About 30% of quali...

  In March 2023, I gallantly retired at 35 years from the role of Executive Director of the pan-African capacity development think tank that I had founded in 2017, having instituted the necess...

  The word ‘evidence’ has been used in many quarters to imply many different concepts. Within the professional field of Evidence-Informed Decision Making (EIDM) practice, there hav...

  Meanings associated with the concept of development has varied across disciplines, and equally confused is its use within development theory. Like its conceptual ambiguity, practitioners and...

  Literature is littered with stories on the persisting gap between the abundant evidence and uptake level outside the confines of producers and their immediate contemporaries, researchers and...

Summary  This political economy analysis provides the policy, socio- economic and political contextual factors to understanding the TB program implementations through a gendered perspective.&n...

  Background  A key EIDM challenge is that policy makers may not understand how to make use of research evidence for evidence use and researchers may not know how to share this evidenc...

  Why EIDM and KT matter Over the past two decades, the push to bridge the gap between research generation and its use to inform policy and practice or evidence-informed decision-making (EI...

  Dr Ekwaro Obuku speaking at an intra-African learning exchange on evidence synthesis hosted by the Africa Centre for Evidence  Limited Capacity for Evidence Synthesis and Use in Afri...

Photo credit: Africa Centre for Evidence & Africa Evidence Network  If I close my eyes, I transport myself back to 2012 and the first meeting of the Africa Evidence Network after dinner in...

  I am very excited to be involved in EVIDENCE 2018, happening from 25 – 28 September this year. This year’s event will see the organising committee drawing on successes from ...

  The Think Tank State of the Sector is an annual report that offers the evidence-informed policy community a deeper understanding and analysis of the think tank sector. In this session, On Th...

  This article contributes to the ongoing debate on how to improve the quality of higher education. Of late, there has been an outcry from the industry players that most graduates need to be...

Legislatures with their workforce of democratically elected members represent one of the central pillars of democratic process; they play a crucial role in driving and sustaining equitable development...

As part of celebrating the amazing work being done on evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) across our continent during #AfricaEvidenceWeek, as the South African centre of the Collaboration of Envi...

There are examples of successful policies in Zimbabwe, informed by evidence. But, since independence, policymaking has largely been reactionary and ideologically driven. This has resulted in many poli...

  Durant cet événement, nous présentons l’une des innovations digitales conçue pour assurer le suivi et l’évaluation de la dynamique des ODD dans...

 Photo credit: Jonathan Ernst / World Bank Comprehensive data for monitoring the progress of SDG implementation is crucial to enable parliaments to perform their oversight and accountability r...

The Higher Teachers’ Training College (HTTC) Bambili is one of Cameroon’s standard institutions for higher learning, created mainly to train teachers teaching secondary and ...

  Ms Janice Tripeny presenting at Evidence 2016 Across many sectors of international development, the number of systematic reviews being commissioned by national and international poli...

  Dr Rhona Mijumbi-Deve presenting on rapid respond services in Uganda at the 2017 Global Evidence Summit in Cape Town, South Africa. It was everything it promised to be – big, fun an...

We still remember those three days in Pretoria for EVIDENCE 2018 as if it were yesterday.  160 people from 28 African countries and 6 Western countries from various sectors, including academic...

Recently the Africa Evidence Network (AEN) invited its members to complete a survey, the purpose of which was to get a feel for what members gain from being part of the AEN, where they would be eager ...

Frejus Thoto is the third recipient of the Africa Evidence Leadership Award offered by the Africa Evidence Network. We caught up with Frejus about receiving the award and asked him some questions abou...

At some point in life, one experiences what may be regarded as the most exciting moments in life – I am experiencing one such moment right now. To get a clear understanding of my story, let m...

Kirchuffs meets colleagues from Cameroon's eBASE Africa (December 2020) The policy challenges on the continent of Africa are enormous, and as development practitioners aiming to enhan...

Ghana joins other countries across the continent to showcase developments within the evidence-informed policy/decision making (EIPM/EIDM) space on the continent during th...

  Reviewing & learning: Professor Ruth Stewart at the BCURE 2015 meeting in London. The Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence Programme (BCURE) is an initiative by t...

  How networks and relationship support the use of evidence by decision-makers in international development The international development business circle generates and deconstructs solution...

In last month’s blog we presented a theory of change for evidence-informed development in an effort to explain how we think UJ-BCURE as a capacity-building programme for policy decisio...

This is the last post in a three-piece series of blogs summarising our Journal of Development Effectiveness paper titled ‘Walking the last mile on the long road to evidence-informed development:...

  Mr Clement Dlamini at the 8th International African Evaluation Association in Kampala, Uganda Introduction The Monitoring and Evaluation Association of Swaziland (MEAS) is a ...

  Guest blog by Marinda Weideman Policies pertaining to land reform tend to be ideologically, rather than empirically, motivated [1]. Such policies may have short-term benefits for tho...

Reclining on my couch one Friday night, I went through a bunch of completed evaluation questionnaires that I had collected from a group of evaluation respondents. I had over a hundred questionnaires, ...

  On Monday the 13th of March, the Africa Centre for Evidence (ACE) team attended a seminar held by the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) foundation at the Wits University Bus...

  Affirmative action legislation dialogue hosted by the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) of the Government of Ghana. Described as an oasis of political devel...

This blog was first published on the Local Development Research Institute website    Over the years, Africa has adopted a raft of development frameworks that have highly influenced its...

  Photo Credit: Africa Evidence Network If you are interested in this topic, read more in the blog post on Utafiti Sera, or review the case studies of eBASE Af...

Engage There is a growing demand to produce high quality evidence. However, recently there has been an even greater demand for researchers to produce evidence to guide policy-makers’ decision...

  Bottom-up development projects, as their counterparts of top-down development policies, are subject to serious limitations. Albeit, criticising bottom-up approaches to development is close t...

Bottom-up development projects, as their counterparts of top-down development policies, are subject to serious limitations. Albeit, criticising bottom-up approaches to development is close to sacrileg...

  Cochrane South Africa, is the local host to the first ever Global Evidence Summit to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, 13 – 16 September 2017. Five leading Global organisat...

The VakaYiko Consortium has recently concluded a nine-day evidence-informed policy making (EIPM) training at the Civil Service Training Centre (CSTC) in Accra, Ghana. CSTC is the o...

  If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation or watch the recorded webinar.  Photo credit: World Bank / Sarah Farhat Background The growi...

Training at APHRC closeup - Michelle Mbuthia Photo Credit: African Population and Health Research Center Monitoring progress and tracking performance for evidence-based decision making, at sub...

  Photo Credit : University of South Australia Dr Luvuyo Jalisa is one of many Eastern Cape exports to the world. I am an Environmental Anthropologist by training and an astute policy-...

  With funding from the French Embassy in Yaoundé, Cameroon, eBASE Africa is Using Formative Research and Social Marketing to Decrypt and Fix a Wicked Problem in Conflict Affected Camer...

  If you are interested in this topic, review the webinar presentation or watch the recorded webinar.  Photo credit: Flickr/boomjack99 Background Over the last ten year...

Many times, very innovative programmes are implemented on pilot/explorative basis; and from which very useful knowledge and resources are produced. But a core question remains as ‘to what extent...

Institutionalisation of a culture of evidence-informed decision making (EIDM) has continued to dominate the policy debates and conversations across Africa in the recent past. Indeed, policy makers, ...

For decades, data has been the buzzword in research communities across different disciplines- its rationale, means of collection and analysis and eventually what it means for the particular study obje...

  “If you want to go fast, go alone; but if you want to go far, go together” – African proverb Imagine a future where leaders, policy makers, practitioners, citizen and ot...

  Photo credit: Healthy Daes It was quite riveting to read Talitha Mpando’s reflection of the Corporate Evidence Leader Mentorship Programme (CEL-MP). For the next twelve to twenty fo...

At the African Population and Health Research Centre, where all three authors of this article work, there is a running joke of our 19-year old baby, who just eats and eats. The baby, without whom the ...

  What is WANEL? The West African Network of Emerging Leaders in Health Policy & Systems (WANEL) is a network of young researchers and practitioners in Health Policy & Systems creat...

  Policymakers, experts (researchers, key informants) and implementers (NGOs, private sector,  development partners, etc.) are essential actors in the evidence use ecosystem. However,&nbs...

At the recent VakaYiko consortium meeting Emily Hayter led a session finding out participants’ attitudes towards evidence. Louise Ball shares some of the themes.   Quotes from partici...

  Masai herder Photo credit: Deloitte   If the elders leave you a legacy of dignified language, you do not abandon it and speak childish language. ~ Ghanaian Proverb Wh...

  Working in academia we often forget how privileged we are to be able to access academic databases at the click of a button. Living in a fast-paced digital age we get used to the findings of ...

The first day of Africa Evidence Week was an amazing start to the celebration of Africa's EIDM. We reached 1300 impressions, 58 retweets, 53 likes, and 30 clicks per link, just on day one! Some of...

The buzz of Africa Evidence Week has continued into day 2, with 13000 (yes - thousand) impressions, 72 retweets, 80 likes, and 34 clicks per link on day two alone. Some of the high...

The third day of Africa Evidence Week has continued to be a celebration: from the @Africa_evidence account we've had 12700 impressions, 70 retweets, 84 likes, and 32 clicks per link...

Africa Evidence Week is exceeding all of our expectations, and this is because of the incredible participation by organisations from across Africa and the globe celebrating Africa's EIDM. On day 4...

  EVIDENCE 2020 ONLINE was a great meeting with moments of sharing and reflection in the Africa Evidence Network (AEN) community. I had the privilege to deliver a keynote in the “Enhanci...

  In January 2020, the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), for the first time in its history, delved into the world of Measurement and Impact Evaluation (M&IE). Through ...

The idea for this blog originated in my love for Sunday afternoon strolls through the neighbourhood. I live in an area of Johannesburg that lends itself to people being outdoors, if this is what you e...

When we develop policy, deliver programmes or carry out research we all take slightly different routes to finding the evidence that helps to shape our decision making process. Every individual has the...

  Introduction The Africa Evidence Network is a project of the Africa Centre for Evidence (ACE), a research center within the University of Johannesburg. Our team at the University has prov...

At the heart of this blog is the question: How do you best impress on the young and energetic, without “polluted” minds, to take up Evidence-Informed Decision Making (EIDM) in totality, in...

Introduction 2019 marks the 3rd instalment of the delivery of the annual flagship Development Evaluation Training Programme in Africa (DETPA) implemented by CLEAR-AA. As per the tradition of this p...

  One of the participants speaking at  the Siyakha launch, a youth unemployment study hosted by the Centre for Social Development. This was the question that was asked at a Roundtable ...

Even though COVID-19 is a crisis everyone around the world experiences, every region is different with varying needs and associated measures to fight the pandemic. One way to enhance understanding of ...

Data from Cameroon suggests that literacy rates for populations above 15 years of age is about 71%, with marked disparity for females at 61%. Rates for indigenous populations, rural populations, or po...