AEN Blogs
Welcome to the AEN blog platform! We aim to advocate for, connect with, and inform and learn from all members of the African evidence ecosystem. Our blog platform is one way for us to be able to achieve this. The AEN blog also provides members with an opportunity to share their professional experience and showcase the work of their institutions. We invite you to submit your blog via info@africaevidencenetwork.org and feature your work to our members.
From Cells to Systems: Using Evidence to Climate-Proof Ghana’s Prisons
20th February 2026
Five AEN Milestones That Shaped 2025
12th December 2025
Summary of Evidence 2025: Key Takeaways and Highlights
10th October 2025
Building bridges for evidence in Africa
26th September 2025
My First In-Person Evidence Event: Reflections from Evidence 2023
22nd September 2025
Let Evidence Speak: Turning Research into Power for People
25th August 2025
End Plastic Pollution Consortium (EPPC) in Ghana
17th April 2025
AEN Membership Migration: A New Era of Connectivity and Collaboration
12th February 2025
Bridging Evidence and Action: Key Insights from the EPA Forum 2024
19th November 2024
EIDM Processes: Seeking Transformation for Enhanced Impacts
8th November 2024
My Global Evidence Summit Experience (GES 2024)
31st October 2024
Reflections from SAMEA’s 9th Biennial Conference
17th October 2024
A Journey of Global Collaboration, Mentorship, and Youth Empowerment
20th September 2024
Highlights from Africa Evidence Week: Day 5
23rd August 2024
Highlights from Africa Evidence Week: Day 4
22nd August 2024
Highlights from Africa Evidence Week: Day 3
21st August 2024
Highlights from Africa Evidence Week: Day 2
20th August 2024
Highlights from Africa Evidence Week: Day 1
20th August 2024
The Journey of Love for Evidence after EVIDENCE
13th August 2024
Embedding evidence use in the Ugandan policy-making process
24th April 2024
Open Data as a Catalyst for Development Policy in Africa
22nd March 2024
Exploring our collective knowledge on citizen evidence
13th December 2023
Session 7: Reconceptualising Evidence for EIDM practice
22nd August 2023
Session 13: Using data to improve public policy in Rwanda
22nd August 2023
Session 12: Getting into the classroom
22nd August 2023
Open is a start, but it is not enough
21st August 2023
Mental health of college students
21st August 2023
Examining the best time of day for exercise
21st August 2023
Business Unusual: Challenges of digitisation in Government
21st August 2023
Celebrating African Excellence in Evidence Use
20th June 2023
Stepping down as Chair of the AEN and the dawn of a new era
19th September 2022
The 2018 Pretoria Conference, a replay experience
8th September 2022
Recognizing incredible teamwork in Africa: AELA 2022
20th April 2022
Be passionate and patient: AELA 2022
20th April 2022
Pedagogies for EIDM capacity development in Africa
30th March 2022
Uganda@59: The evolution of a data ecosystem
17th November 2021
What’s the fuss? A glance at Measurement and Impact Evaluation
12th October 2021
Matters Evaluation and why Evaluation Matters
12th October 2021
Promoting evidence use: Why and how did we flip from 60-40 to 40-60?
9th September 2021
AfrED: Ground-breaking Evidence-base for Decision-making in Africa
9th September 2021
School closures and learning loss in West Africa
8th September 2021
Evidence-Based First Aid Education in Africa
3rd September 2021
eBASE Africa receives funding support from the IDRC
20th August 2021
Reflections of an information/search specialist
19th May 2021
AELA 2021: The Culmination of a Passion that Became a Career
15th April 2021
What if we were wrong about whose capacities to build for evidence use?
16th November 2020
Episode 3: Engaging Policy-Makers in Evidence Implementation
18th September 2020
Celebrating my three years with the Africa Evidence Network
20th August 2020
COVID-19 and evidence use in Ghana: key reflections
24th June 2020
Episode 2: Stories on Disability
3rd June 2020
Why citizens’ experiences matter in crisis response
19th May 2020
Enhancing capacities amidst the stress of COVID-19
19th May 2020
Impact evaluation capacity in Africa: scoping study
13th April 2020
EIDM in Africa: innovative at its core
13th December 2019
Whose evidence matters – a critique by African practitioners
31st October 2019
What happened on day 4 of Africa Evidence Week?
13th September 2019
Highlights from Africa Evidence Week
13th September 2019
What happened on day 3 of Africa Evidence Week?
12th September 2019
In Africa, we are bringing the sunshine into our homes!
12th September 2019
What happened on day 2 of Africa Evidence Week?
11th September 2019
What happened on day 1 of Africa Evidence Week?
10th September 2019
Interview with Zimbabwe policy-maker: rapid synthesis service
10th September 2019
The #AfricaEvidenceWeek: What’s happening in Ghana?
9th September 2019
New EIDM hub launched in time for Africa Evidence Week
2nd September 2019
100 Days Awareness on Antimicrobial Resistance
7th August 2019
An evidence leader’s thoughts on evidence-use in Africa
29th June 2018
Innovative EVIDENCE 2018
11th May 2018
Strands and leaders at EVIDENCE 2018
29th March 2018
EVIDENCE 2018: Early catch a great discount on registration fees
28th February 2018
On African knowledge repositories and evidence-informed policy-making
15th February 2018
EVIDENCE 2018: We hope to meet you there
12th January 2018
Where is Africa Evidence Network going post 2017?
6th December 2017
Highlights of the JRC’s #EU4Facts conference- 60 years in science
20th October 2017
The 2017 Global Evidence Summit: Big, fun and informative
20th September 2017
ACE facilitating a pilot UJ Humanities post-graduate retreat
1st September 2017
Top five reasons not to miss the Global Evidence Summit
18th August 2017
Peer learning strengthens African evaluation methods
19th May 2017
The power of RCTs: reflections & debates
31st March 2017
How to build African evaluation capacities
10th February 2017
Mapping the EIDM landscape(s) in Africa: a series of 25 maps
13th January 2017
Systematic reviews: what, why, how, where?
15th December 2016
The end of BCURE programme: Lessons from directors working in Africa
7th December 2016
Reflections on Evidence 2016
18th November 2016
Evidence 2016: What an exciting and productive conference
21st October 2016
Day 2: Understanding evidence and context at #evidence2016
22nd September 2016
Day 1: Time to Engage at #evidence2016
21st September 2016
Time to Engage, Understand and make an Impact: Evidence 2016 let’s go!
16th September 2016
Policy dialogues: Lessons from the BCURE programme in Zimbabwe
9th September 2016
Looking forward to the Evidence 2016 conference
2nd September 2016
Strengthened oversight capacity within African legislatures
19th August 2016
Count down to Evidence 2016 (81 days to go…)
30th June 2016
Better Links, Better EIDM
31st March 2016
Looking deeper to apply evidence better
29th January 2016
Where do we access evidence?
29th May 2015
Evidence. Influence. Impact. & a good story to tell
12th April 2015
Does Evaluation really matter? Lessons from life experiences
20th February 2015
The long walk to evidence-informed development
7th February 2015
A network of diversity, passion for social change, and mutual support
29th November 2014
Relationships, networking and homo evidence at #AEN2014
28th November 2014
Impressions from Day 1 at #AEN2014
26th November 2014
Day 2 at #AEN2014: Of ‘thinking-based policy’ & ‘policy pies’
26th November 2014
Evidence & Policy in Africa: Welcome to the AEN!
15th July 2014
Only together can evidence-informed decision-making become a reality.
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