
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...
Continue ReadingAntimicrobial 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...
Continue ReadingThe 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...
Continue ReadingTerms 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...
Continue ReadingEvidence 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...
Continue ReadingAnnouncement for inviting applications for participation in the 4th BRICs Young Scientist Conclave. Date: 6 - 8 November, 2019 - Themes: Cybersecurity and Bioeconomy - Venue: Campinas, ...
Continue ReadingIn 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...
Continue ReadingI 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...
Continue ReadingThe 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...
Continue ReadingFor 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...
Continue ReadingIMAGE: 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...
Continue ReadingThe 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...
Continue ReadingWhen 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...
Continue ReadingThe 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...
Continue ReadingIn 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 ...
Continue ReadingThe 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...
Continue ReadingOne of the things the Africa Evidence Network (AEN) secretariat this year has focused on was showcasing innovative evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) in Africa. Some of the highlights from 2019 ...
Continue ReadingAs 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...
Continue ReadingIntroduction 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...
Continue ReadingThe 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...
Continue Reading“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 ...
Continue ReadingIn 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...
Continue ReadingIn 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...
Continue ReadingIf 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 ...
Continue ReadingIf 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...
Continue ReadingIf 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...
Continue ReadingIf 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...
Continue ReadingIf 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...
Continue ReadingIf 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...
Continue ReadingIf 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...
Continue ReadingIf 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...
Continue ReadingIf 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...
Continue ReadingIf 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...
Continue ReadingThis 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...
Continue ReadingIn Benin, the Evidence-Policy-Action (EPA) Network is established to create a functional and multi-stakeholders’ platform between evidence generators (researchers,&...
Continue ReadingIn 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...
Continue ReadingOver 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...
Continue ReadingIf 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...
Continue ReadingL’Organisation Ouest-Africaine de la Santé (OOAS), l’institution spécialisée en santé de la Communauté Economique des Etas de l’Afrique de l’...
Continue ReadingThe 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...
Continue ReadingIf 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 ...
Continue ReadingIf 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 ...
Continue ReadingKnowledge 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...
Continue ReadingOptimal 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 ...
Continue ReadingWhat 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...
Continue ReadingMy 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-...
Continue ReadingAs 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...
Continue ReadingMonitoring, 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...
Continue ReadingIf 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...
Continue ReadingMany 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...
Continue ReadingIn 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...
Continue ReadingGovernments across the globe are progressively realizing the significance of research synthesis in health policy and systems decision-making processes. Research evidence is required to ...
Continue ReadingIf 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...
Continue ReadingMy 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 ...
Continue ReadingThe 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...
Continue ReadingThe 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...
Continue ReadingMapula 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...
Continue ReadingIf 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...
Continue ReadingPeer 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...
Continue ReadingI 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...
Continue ReadingEffective Basic Services (eBASE) Africa, is a multinational collaborativee organisation with headquarters in Bamenda, Cameroon. eBASE Africa is active in implementing charity and development projects ...
Continue ReadingThe 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...
Continue ReadingIf 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...
Continue ReadingAs 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...
Continue ReadingPhoto 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...
Continue ReadingThe Higher Teachers’ Training College (HTTC) Bambili is one of Cameroon’s standard institutions for higher learning, created mainly to train teachers teaching secondary and ...
Continue ReadingGhana joins other countries across the continent to showcase developments within the evidence-informed policy/decision making (EIPM/EIDM) space on the continent during th...
Continue ReadingFrejus 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...
Continue ReadingMany 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...
Continue ReadingFor 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...
Continue ReadingAt 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 ...
Continue ReadingWhat 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...
Continue ReadingThe 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...
Continue ReadingThe 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...
Continue ReadingThe 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...
Continue ReadingAfrica 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...
Continue ReadingEVIDENCE 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...
Continue ReadingIntroduction 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...
Continue ReadingEven 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 ...
Continue ReadingData 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...
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