AEN Events
Evidence Series
The key purpose of any EVIDENCE event is to bring together the Pan-African community for learning, sharing, and relationship-building and provide an opportunity for connection, and collaboration to enhance mutual learning and the development of new ideas about supporting EIDM.
The EVIDENCE series was launched in 2014 as a biennial event hosted by the Africa Evidence Network. The series began as an in-person colloquium in 2014 to bring together members of the AEN to explore how to enhance the overlaps in their work to support evidence-informed decision-making in Africa. The event series was rebranded as EVIDENCE in 2016 and we then hosted EVIDENCE 2016, EVIDENCE 2018 which included an online version, EVIDENCE 2020 ONLINE, EVIDENCE 2022 which included an online version, EVIDENCE 2023 which included an online version and the next one is EVIDENCE 2025 details to be determined.
Africa Evidence Week
Africa Evidence Week (AfEW) was launched in 2019 as an Africa Evidence Network’s (AEN) initiative to take on a regional evidence week focusing on Africa. Initially conceived by the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), evidence weeks have become a popular feature amongst the global evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) community. This includes the London, Washington, and Delhi evidence weeks, a countrywide Ugandan evidence week, a continent-wide Latin American evidence week , a sectorial humanitarian evidence week , and a global evaluation evidence week . In the past, some of these weeks have been largely face-to-face and in one physical location, others have been distributed across locations and have mixed online and offline events and content. A common aim for all evidence weeks is the advocacy for evidence and its use in decision-making. This virtual week-long event is fully virtual collection of digital content shared from across Africa. The second Africa Evidence Week (AfEW) took place in 2021. The third Africa Evidence Week aimed to showcase and promote the state of evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) on the continent, specifically highlighting the contribution of young and emerging leaders in African EIDM. It took place from 19 to 23 August.
Webinar Series
The Evidence Capacities webinar series was launched in 2020 to advance EIDM across the continent through innovative capacity development practices. The AEN Manifesto on capacity development for EIDM in Africa (2021) was produced and held series of webinars, engaging the practitioner community on different elements of the document, touching on equity and inclusion in designing capacity development interventions, design issues aimed at system-level change, relationships, and partnerships issues, as well as proven pedagogies for EIDM capacity development in Africa. These were useful sessions to promote engagement on the guiding document. The goal was to cross- fertilizing ideas to enhance EIDM capacities across the ecosystem in Africa, to facilitate learning among participants and advance discussions, debates, and solutions for capacity within the African EIDM ecosystem; and to imagine a revised agenda for EIDM capacity-development across the region.
Only together can evidence-informed decision-making become a reality.
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