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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...

  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...

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...

  Terms of Reference of the Africa Evidence Leadership Award (AELA)  OVERVIEW OF THE AFRICA EVIDENCE NETWORK  The Africa Evidence Network (AEN) is a broad community o...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

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...

  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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 hello. During ...

  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, 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, 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...

  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...

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

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...

  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...

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...

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 ...

  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...

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...

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-...

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...

  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...

  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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

  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...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

 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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...