Session 16: Building Resilient Education Systems: Evidence from Large-Scale Randomized Trials in Five Countries
2023-09-18
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Education systems need to withstand frequent shocks, including conflict, disease, natural disasters, and climate events, all of which routinely close schools. During these emergencies, alternative mod...
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Natural Capital and Resilient Biodiversity in East Africa: The role of strong evidence and collective action in climate change decisions
2023-08-30
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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...
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Attitudes of the education sector towards evidence use in South Africa
2023-08-23
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This research highlights the challenges experienced by the education sector in evidence use and offers strategies to address these problems. It also presents a call for action integrating robust resea...
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Behavioral Insights on the Use of Evidence for Local Policy-Making in South Africa
2023-08-23
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Designing impactful policies that respond to constituents’ needs is the goal of all good policy-makers. Employing appropriate evidence—from qualitative inputs about the community’s needs and preferenc...
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Building Resilient Education Systems: Evidence from Large-Scale Randomized Trials in Five Countries
2023-08-23
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Education systems need to be able to withstand frequent shocks, including conflict, disease, natural disasters, floods, and climate events, all of which routinely shut down schools. During these shock...
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Can Data-Informed Management and Structured Pedagogy Improve Learning? Evidence from public schools in Rwanda
2023-08-23
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Despite substantial investments in educational systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, low- and middle-income countries face persistently low learning outcomes. Gray-Lobe et al. (2022) evaluated a successful w...
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Extensive collaboration to mobilise rapid evidence-informed decision-making for the National treatment guidelines for COVID-19 in South Africa
2023-08-23
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The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the critical need for expedient access to high-quality evidence to inform clinical management and medicine procurement decisions in South Africa (SA). Through extensi...
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Infographics on education attainment in Africa: Getting research into the classroom
2023-08-23
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This poster highlights infographics on education attainment in Africa and efforts to get research into the classroom.
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“Real-world Evidence: What we know and What We Can Do in Africa”.
2023-08-23
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At Evidence 2023, the APHRC will showcase its research works across
the African continent in a roundtable discussion under the theme “Real-world Evidence: What
we know and What We Can Do in Africa...
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Reforming the African University: A Pan African project in an era of international cooperation in education
2023-08-23
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University education is expanding across Africa. It is currently viewed by political decision
makers as the ultimate precondition for economic development. In line with this belief
everyone of the f...
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Unravelling the Enablers for Literacy and Numeracy for Children : Lessons from Kenya, Nepal, and Tanzania
2023-08-23
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Many children go through multiple years of formal education without acquiring basic Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) skills. Evidence from People’s Action for Learning (PAL) Network has shown ...
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Session 12: Building the evidence architecture for youth employment in sub–Saharan Africa
2023-08-23
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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 ...
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Session 4: A Collaborative and Politically Responsive Approach for Strengthening Institutional Capacity for EIDM in the Health Sector
2023-08-23
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Evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) increases transparency and accountability in the policy-making process, can reduce the waste of public resources, minimises unintended ...
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Empowering girls: A randomized trial on mHealth ‘safe spaces’ during COVID-19
2023-08-22
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In spite of their promise, there is limited evidence that mobile-phone-based adolescent girls ‘safe
space’ and sexual and reproductive health interventions have improved wellbeing and health outcomes...
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The Use of Evidence Based Policy as an Alternative Model for Institutionalising the Sustainable Development Goals in KZN Local Municipalities
2023-08-22
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At the level of the international community, the use of monitoring and evaluation systems, which play a strategic role in a sound policy-making process, is important and relevant for improving the ef...
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Communicating research evidence through ‘Policy events’: Linking practitioners & policymakers through a ‘Policy event on Menstrual Hygiene Management
2023-08-22
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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...
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Evidence ecosystems in Brazil, Chile and Colombia: findings, challenges and learnings from Latin American and Caribbean country reports
2023-08-22
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The Latin American and Caribbean Evidence Hub (Hub LAC) was created in 2022 to promote transnational and interdisciplinary collaboration for the institutionalization of e...
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Learning lessons from nationally evidentiary processes to inform international deliberation.
2023-08-22
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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...
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SAMEA Virtual Evaluation guideline and lessons learned from virtual evaluation.
2023-08-22
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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...
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Session 12: Getting into the classroom
2023-08-22
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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...
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Session 12: Performance Based Financing, an innovative approach to improving quality of education in crisis regions
2023-08-22
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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....
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Session 13: The Art and Science of evidence use in Parliaments: An Insider’s story
2023-08-22
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Parliaments are the legislative authority of the state and indispensable institutions of representative democracies mandated to perform three core functions of representation, legislation an...
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Session 13: Using data to improve public policy in Rwanda
2023-08-22
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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...
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Session 4: The Use of Evidence Based Policy as an Alternative Model for Institutionalising the Sustainable Development Goals in KwaZulu Natal
2023-08-22
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Session 5: Turning Young M&E Professionals’ Dreams and Aspirations into Realities
2023-08-22
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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...
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Session 5: What does legacy thinking within the African EIDM space look like? Views from a retired Young Executive Director
2023-08-22
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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...
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Session 7: Reconceptualising Evidence for EIDM practice
2023-08-22
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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...
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Session 7: Shaking the ‘unstable’ paradigm of current development practice: a discussion paper
2023-08-22
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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...
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Session 8: Closing the gap between evidence production and uptake: Do we need to re-think where we locate communication in the pecking order?
2023-08-22
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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...
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Session 8: Gendered Gaps to Accessing TB Treatment: A Political Economy Analysis in Kenya.
2023-08-22
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This political economy analysis provides the policy, socio- economic and political contextual factors to understanding the TB program implementations through a gendered perspective.&n...
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Session 8: Online Mentoring as a Tool to Enhance Capacity to Support Evidence-Informed Decision-Making in Africa
2023-08-22
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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...
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Session 8: What influences the knowledge translation capacity and practice within Africa-led research consortia?
2023-08-22
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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...
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Strategies and Experiences of Resource Mobilisation for Think Tanks
2023-08-22
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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...
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A Call to Maximize Africa’s Evidence Potential in Harnessing and Redressing Existing Opportunities and Challenges
2023-08-21
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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...
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Accessibilité et utilisation des données probantes au niveau décentralisé à l'ère de la révolution numérique : défis, leviers et opportunités
2023-08-21
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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...
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A Systematic review highlighting the unintended consequences of decentralised water resources management in South Africa
2023-08-21
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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...
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Business Unusual: Challenges of digitisation in Government
2023-08-21
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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...
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Conditional and unconditional cash transfers for health outcomes and household expenditure in poor families in low-and middle-income countries
2023-08-21
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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...
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Counting a wicked problem: a household survey of SGBV in Ntanka Community
2023-08-21
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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...
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Examining the best time of day for exercise
2023-08-21
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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 ...
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Leveraging and strengthening local systems to increase first-time mothers’ use of postpartum family planning in Tanzania: A cluster randomized control
2023-08-21
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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...
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Measuring up: Public libraries discovering their impact in Zimbabwe
2023-08-21
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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...
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Mental health of college students
2023-08-21
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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...
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Open is a start, but it is not enough
2023-08-21
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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 ...
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Poverty dynamics and the figures of those left behind in Atacora and Donga (Northwest Benin)
2023-08-21
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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...
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Promoting research transparency - Interventions to improve the publication and dissemination of trial evidence A scoping review
2023-08-21
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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...
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Research on the Theoretical System, International Experience and Chinese Path of Evidence-based Social Science
2023-08-21
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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...
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Session 11: Baseline Survey for Strengthening Access to Justice and Participation of Women & Girls in leadership in Two District Councils in Tanzania
2023-08-21
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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...
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Session 11: Enhancing Evidence-Use for People With Disabilities (PWDs) for Inclusive EIDM
2023-08-21
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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)...
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Session 11: PWD's and their access to services: a situational analysis to strengthen evidence base of social welfare policies in The Gambia
2023-08-21
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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 ...
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Session 11: The feasibility of applying individual patient data for EIDM on inequity in cancer treatment engagement in Northern Ghana
2023-08-21
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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...
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Session 11: The Top 3 Ways to Increase A Culture of Gender Sensitive Mainstreaming in Parliaments Across Africa Using Evidence
2023-08-21
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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...
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Session 13: AU Agenda 2063: How can African leaders ensure effective evidence production and its cycle usage for the attainment of the Agenda 2063
2023-08-21
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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...
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Session 13: Beyond Evidence: Politically informed decision and policymaking for resilient African cities
2023-08-21
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ACRC's Theory of Change: African Cities Research Consortium
African cities are experiencing rapid urbanization, with unprecedented investments in housing, infrastructure and basi...
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Session 13: Building capacities of VOPEs in East Africa through Peer-to-Peer learning: Lessons from Uganda Evaluation Association
2023-08-21
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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...
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Session 14: Utafiti Sera: Influencing policy, practice and decision making through evidence in Africa
2023-08-21
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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...
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Session 18: Building and cross-fertilizing evidence from National Evaluation Capacities Index
2023-08-21
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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...
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Session 18: Community-Generated Evidence in Africa: Best Practices and Lessons from the PAL Network and the Luminos Fund
2023-08-21
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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...
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Session 1: Using Evidence Within Traditional African Storytelling (TAS) to Prevent and Mitigate Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) in Cameroon
2023-08-21
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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...
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Session 4: African community for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (ACSRM) needs assessment
2023-08-21
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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...
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Session 4: Effectiveness and sustainability of politically responsive interventions for strengthening institutional capacity for EIDM
2023-08-21
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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...
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Session 4: How can we produce better evidence to inform better decisions for better outcomes?
2023-08-21
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"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...
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Session 4: Introduction Of Evidence-Informed Decision Making (EIDM) Curriculum into Universities: A Strategy to Institutionalise the EIDM Culture
2023-08-21
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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 ...
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Session 4: Mechanisms to address weak capacities on the institutional use of evidence to inform decisions within the Ministry of Health
2023-08-21
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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. ...
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Session 4: Setting Up An Academic Unit in Evidence Informed Decision Making in Malawi
2023-08-21
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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...
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Session 4: The evidence ecosystem of the Ethiopian health sector: Current Status and prospects of evidence-informed decision-making
2023-08-21
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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...
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Session 4: Trends, barriers and facilitators of evidence sharing among non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Sub-Saharan Africa
2023-08-21
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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...
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Session 4: What Does It Take to Introduce Evidence-Informed Decision-Making Training in Low- Middle- Income Countries Training Institutions?
2023-08-21
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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 ...
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Street level bureaucrats, military culture and Quality Education in Kenya: The case of National Defence University-Kenya
2023-08-21
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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...
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Suivi et Evaluation des ODD au niveau des collectivités décentralisées (Communes) avec des solutions numériques : Cas de l’application Baromètre – ODD
2023-08-21
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Durant cet événement, nous présentons l’une des innovations digitales conçue pour assurer le suivi et l’évaluation de la dynamique des ODD dans...
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