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.

Evidence Doesn’t Need Defending—It Needs Liberating: Keynote Reflections on shifting evidence ecosystems at the JBI Colloquium 2025

20th March 2026

Beyond Hardware: Scaling Digital Education through Local Government Collaboration in Tanzania

20th March 2026

The Last Mile in Education: Designing Transition and Retention Pathways That Hold

20th February 2026

The Lloyd’s Register Foundation Global Safety Evidence Centre: building and sharing evidence to improve safety

20th February 2026

From Cells to Systems: Using Evidence to Climate-Proof Ghana’s Prisons

20th February 2026

KADI Research and Knowledge Infrastructure Advances Context-Driven Climate Services in Africa

20th January 2026

Five AEN Milestones That Shaped 2025

12th December 2025

Eight Years of Leading the Africa Evidence Network: A Reflection on Community, Courage, and Becoming

12th December 2025

Reflections on 13 Months of the Community of Practice on Citizen Engagement in Evidence-Informed Decision-Making (CE-EIDM) in the health sector: A collaborative initiative of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Africa Evidence Network (AEN), and Cochrane

12th December 2025

Utafiti Sera Communities of Practice Enhancing Evidence Uptake into Inclusive Policy and Programme Actions in Africa

20th November 2025

Enablers for Living Evidence: an Alive Learning Forum session on Artificial Intelligence

20th November 2025

Bridging Science, Policy, and Communities: Making Evidence Matter in Practice

20th October 2025

From Principles to Practice: Reflections on the #LivingTheManifesto Challenge

20th October 2025

Redefining EIDM in Africa: Reflections and Resolutions from Evidence 2025

20th October 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

Policy impact in evidence-to-policy interventions: Be realistic about your envisaged outcomes and strive to hand over agency

19th September 2025

Evidence 2025: Cotonou, a Francophone capital, becomes the continental EIDM epicentre

19th September 2025

From Social Services to Shaping Policy: My Journey in the EIDM Ecosystem

25th August 2025

Shaping the journey of knowledge brokers and policymakers through enhancing capacities for implementing and promoting Evidence-Informed Policymaking

25th August 2025

Beyond Reporting: How Evidence Can Drive Africa’s Journey to Self-Sufficiency

25th August 2025

Let Evidence Speak: Turning Research into Power for People

25th August 2025

Harnessing the Potential of the AEN Manifesto: Lessons, Challenges, and Next Steps

25th August 2025

Co-Creating Africa’s Evidence Future: Reflections on the 2025 Africa Evidence Summit

25th July 2025

Collaboration, Innovation, and Impact: My Experience at the Evidence to Action Conference

25th July 2025

Bridging Evidence and Practice Key insights from the inaugural AFRIPAL 2025 conference as a scholarly platform for parliaments in Africa

25th July 2025

eBASE Africa at the May TEN Learning Session: Highlights and Reflections from the Tori Dey Conversation

20th June 2025

Casting the Net Wider: Communicating Research Evidence to a Broader Stakeholder Audience to Drive Policy and Practice Change

20th June 2025

Bridging Policy and Practice: Insights from IDRC’s Evidence for Innovation Workshop in Accra, Ghana

20th June 2025

Keeping Evidence Alive: Reflections from the Cochrane Africa Indaba 2025

20th May 2025

Maximising the Power of M&E Data: Lessons from PACKS Africa’s Internal Seminar Series

20th May 2025

Afro-driven innovation through domestic resourcing and purposeful collaborations: Reflections on the inaugural Evidence for Development (Evi4Dev) Conference

20th May 2025

Act for Inclusion: The Crisis Facing Young Africans with Disabilities

17th April 2025

African Education Indaba 2025: Conference Highlights and Key Takeaways

17th April 2025

End Plastic Pollution Consortium (EPPC) in Ghana

17th April 2025

Beyond Tokenism: A Youth-Led Call for Evidence at the Skoll World Forum

17th April 2025

From Labs to Markets: Why Commercialising Research is Critical for Africa’s Future and Why Policy Must Lead the Way

17th April 2025

Bridging Research and Action: Reflections from Utafiti Elimu Tanzania 2025

20th March 2025

Transforming Education in Africa: Insights from the Future-Ready Learning Webinar; Build up to the Education Indaba 2025

20th February 2025

Transforming Youth Employment in Africa: Some Insights from YEEIH’s Gathering in Kigali

20th February 2025

AEN Membership Migration: A New Era of Connectivity and Collaboration

12th February 2025

What to Look Forward to in 2025: Advancing Evidence-Informed Decision-Making in Africa

20th January 2025

Reflecting on 2024: A Year of Growth and Innovation for the Africa Evidence Network (AEN)

12th December 2024

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

From the United Nations Summit of the Future to Africa: The Need for Evidence-Informed Decision-Making

17th October 2024

Reflections from SAMEA’s 9th Biennial Conference

17th October 2024

Finding My Place in EIDM: Reflections on AfEW24 throwback campaign and the Power of Diverse Roles

17th October 2024

A Journey of Global Collaboration, Mentorship, and Youth Empowerment

20th September 2024

Reflecting on the Global Evidence Summit 2024: A Week of Engaging and Learning

20th September 2024

Don’t Wait for ‘Big Funding’: Harness Local Evidence to Tackle Climate Change

9th 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

Communities of practice as a tool to enhance evidence capacities and collaboration in Africa

19th August 2024

Harnessing Evaluation Evidence for Evidence-Informed Decision-Making (EIDM): Lessons from CLEAR-AA Experience on resilience building interventions

19th August 2024

Promoting data and evidence use practice in local government: what we are learning from the E4D project in Ghana

16th August 2024

From Environmental Health to Evidence-Based Policy: My Journey in Research and Development

16th August 2024

The Importance of Evidence-Based Monitoring and Evaluation in Malawi

15th August 2024

An incredible, enriching and insightful journey to Ghana to engage with Africa Evidence network members and the EIDM community

15th August 2024

Develop the Evidence-Informed Decision-Making Capabilities for All

15th August 2024

Les mutuelles de santé et la digitalisation des services de santé dans les pays en développement : Expérience du projet ISPV-Africa au Togo

14th August 2024

Multi-Participatory Adapted Mosaic Framework: A Methodological Approach to Listening to the Voices of Children with Disabilities in Nigeria

14th August 2024

Mutual health insurance and the digitization of healthcare services in developing countries: Experience of the ISPV- Africa project in Togo

14th August 2024

Prioritising early learning research in sub-Saharan Africa for equitable learning outcomes

14th August 2024

Strategising for Success: Mental Health in African Education Systems

14th August 2024

The EPA Center of Excellence: A Catalytic and Innovative Intervention for Evidence-Informed Policymaking (EIP) in Francophone Africa

14th August 2024

Africa’s bright future is in evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM)

14th August 2024

Building a Brighter Future Through Evidence: eBASE Africa’s Work in Cameroon

14th August 2024

Building small grants programs connected to policies and the needs of practitioners: the experience of the African Center for Equitable Development

14th August 2024

Capacity Development Program on Integrating Gender and Youth Data in Food Security and Nutrition Interventions in Africa: Use of EIDM approach

14th August 2024

Going Far Together: 4 Highlights about The Africa LEEPS Partnership

14th August 2024

The Journey of Love for Evidence after EVIDENCE

13th August 2024

Equity, Equality and Social Justice: The pinnacles of EIDM in Africa

12th August 2024

Evolving Evidence: Integrating EIDM in Parliaments – A Spotlight on Malawi’s Transformation

7th August 2024

Championing Evidence: My Experience with Evidence-Informed Decision-Making in Africa

6th August 2024

The transformative power of evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM): perspectives of a young and emerging evaluator

5th August 2024

Position youth for the transformation of evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) in Africa

31st July 2024

Evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) Catalyst for Sustainable Progress

31st July 2024

Championing Change: Lesedi’s Journey with evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) in Africa

30th July 2024

Overemphasis of individual level capacities and undervaluation of institutional and systemic level processes undermining EIDM institutionalisation

24th July 2024

Weaving through the Sand: How can evidence-informed decision-making work for all?

19th July 2024

Championing evidence-informed decision-making in Zimbabwe, Africa, and beyond

19th July 2024

A Decade Journey in Public Health and Evidence-Informed Decision-Making

18th July 2024

Bridging Knowledge and Action: Insights from the Africa Evidence Summit 2024

18th July 2024

Career evolution from public health to EIDM and within the EIDM field

18th July 2024

Empowering Francophone African Youths around the Practice of Evidence-Informed Decision-Making (EIDM)

18th July 2024

3 Days in Berlin: The What Works Climate Solutions Summit (WWCS) experience

20th June 2024

Waste Not, Want Not: How Evidence Saves Money and Improves Lives

18th June 2024

Equity and inclusiveness: An animating principle in expanding evidence for science advice and policy

16th May 2024

Insider reflections after 2 cohorts of decolonised mentorship: the Corporate Evidence Leaders Mentorship Programme

15th May 2024

Embedding evidence use in the Ugandan policy-making process

24th April 2024

The power of networks in evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM)

17th April 2024

Open Data as a Catalyst for Development Policy in Africa

22nd March 2024

Conducting Research in Ghana: highlighting the inequities through storytelling

19th January 2024

Exploring our collective knowledge on citizen evidence

13th December 2023

The Veracity of Afro-centric Approaches in Fostering Connections and Collaborations in Enhancing EIDM in Africa

20th September 2023

‘It takes a village’: Lessons on capacitating a policy-relevant data ecosystem

20th September 2023

Session 16: Building Resilient Education Systems: Evidence from Large-Scale Randomized Trials in Five Countries

18th September 2023

Capacity development for EIDM in Africa: implications of targeting structural and value issues for ecosystem actors

7th September 2023

Utafiti Sera: Influencing policy, practice and decision making through evidence in Africa

31st August 2023

Natural Capital and Resilient Biodiversity in East Africa: The role of strong evidence and collective action in climate change decisions

30th August 2023

Session 4: A Collaborative and Politically Responsive Approach for Strengthening Institutional Capacity for EIDM in the Health Sector

23rd August 2023

Session 12: Building the evidence architecture for youth employment in sub–Saharan Africa

23rd August 2023

Strategies and Experiences of Resource Mobilisation for Think Tanks

22nd August 2023

Session 8: What influences the knowledge translation capacity and practice within Africa-led research consortia?

22nd August 2023

Session 8: Online Mentoring as a Tool to Enhance Capacity to Support Evidence-Informed Decision-Making in Africa

22nd August 2023

Session 8: Gendered Gaps to Accessing TB Treatment: A Political Economy Analysis in Kenya

22nd August 2023

Session 8: Closing the gap between evidence production and uptake: Do we need to re-think where we locate communication in the pecking order?

22nd August 2023

Session 7: Shaking the ‘unstable’ paradigm of current development practice: a discussion paper

22nd August 2023

Session 7: Reconceptualising Evidence for EIDM practice

22nd August 2023

Session 5: What does legacy thinking within the African EIDM space look like? Views from a retired Young Executive Director

22nd August 2023

Session 5: Turning Young M&E Professionals’ Dreams and Aspirations into Realities

22nd August 2023

Session 4: The Use of Evidence Based Policy as an Alternative Model for Institutionalising the Sustainable Development Goals in KwaZulu Natal

22nd August 2023

Session 13: Using data to improve public policy in Rwanda

22nd August 2023

Session 13: The Art and Science of evidence use in Parliaments: An Insider’s story

22nd August 2023

Session 12: Performance Based Financing, an innovative approach to improving quality of education in crisis regions

22nd August 2023

Session 12: Getting into the classroom

22nd August 2023

SAMEA Virtual Evaluation guideline and lessons learned from virtual evaluation

22nd August 2023

Learning lessons from nationally evidentiary processes to inform international deliberation

22nd August 2023

Evidence ecosystems in Brazil, Chile and Colombia: findings, challenges and learnings from Latin American and Caribbean country reports

22nd August 2023

Communicating research evidence through ‘Policy events’: Linking practitioners & policymakers through a ‘Policy event on Menstrual Hygiene Management

22nd August 2023

Suivi et Evaluation des ODD au niveau des collectivités décentralisées (Communes) avec des solutions numériques : Cas de l’application Baromètre – ODD

21st August 2023

Street level bureaucrats, military culture and Quality Education in Kenya: The case of National Defence University-Kenya

21st August 2023

Session 4: Trends, barriers and facilitators of evidence sharing among non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Sub-Saharan Africa

21st August 2023

A Systematic review highlighting the unintended consequences of decentralised water resources management in South Africa

21st August 2023

Session 4: The evidence ecosystem of the Ethiopian health sector: Current Status and prospects of evidence-informed decision-making

21st August 2023

Session 4: Setting Up An Academic Unit in Evidence Informed Decision Making in Malawi

21st August 2023

Session 4: Mechanisms to address weak capacities on the institutional use of evidence to inform decisions within the Ministry of Health

21st August 2023

Session 4: Introduction Of Evidence-Informed Decision Making (EIDM) Curriculum into Universities: A Strategy to Institutionalise the EIDM Culture

21st August 2023

Session 4: Effectiveness and sustainability of politically responsive interventions for strengthening institutional capacity for EIDM

21st August 2023

Session 4: African community for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (ACSRM) needs assessment

21st August 2023

Session 1: Using Evidence Within Traditional African Storytelling (TAS) to Prevent and Mitigate Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) in Cameroon

21st August 2023

Session 18: Community-Generated Evidence in Africa: Best Practices and Lessons from the PAL Network and the Luminos Fund

21st August 2023

Session 18: Building and cross-fertilizing evidence from National Evaluation Capacities Index

21st August 2023

Session 14: Utafiti Sera: Influencing policy, practice and decision making through evidence in Africa

21st August 2023

Session 13: Building capacities of VOPEs in East Africa through Peer-to-Peer learning: Lessons from Uganda Evaluation Association

21st August 2023

Session 13: Beyond Evidence: Politically informed decision and policymaking for resilient African cities

21st August 2023

Session 13: AU Agenda 2063: How can African leaders ensure effective evidence production and its cycle usage for the attainment of the Agenda 2063

21st August 2023

Session 11: The Top 3 Ways to Increase A Culture of Gender Sensitive Mainstreaming in Parliaments Across Africa Using Evidence

21st August 2023

Session 11: The feasibility of applying individual patient data for EIDM on inequity in cancer treatment engagement in Northern Ghana

21st August 2023

Session 11: PWD’s and their access to services: a situational analysis to strengthen evidence base of social welfare policies in The Gambia

21st August 2023

Session 11: Enhancing Evidence-Use for People With Disabilities (PWDs) for Inclusive EIDM

21st August 2023

Session 11: Baseline Survey for Strengthening Access to Justice and Participation of Women & Girls in leadership in Two District Councils in Tanzania

21st August 2023

Research on the Theoretical System, International Experience and Chinese Path of Evidence-based Social Science

21st August 2023

Promoting research transparency – Interventions to improve the publication and dissemination of trial evidence A scoping review

21st August 2023

Poverty dynamics and the figures of those left behind in Atacora and Donga (Northwest Benin)

21st August 2023

Open is a start, but it is not enough

21st August 2023

Mental health of college students

21st August 2023

Measuring up: Public libraries discovering their impact in Zimbabwe

21st August 2023

Leveraging and strengthening local systems to increase first-time mothers’ use of postpartum family planning in Tanzania: A cluster randomized control

21st August 2023

Accessibilité et utilisation des données probantes au niveau décentralisé à l’ère de la révolution numérique : défis, leviers et opportunités

21st August 2023

A Call to Maximize Africa’s Evidence Potential in Harnessing and Redressing Existing Opportunities and Challenges

21st August 2023

Examining the best time of day for exercise

21st August 2023

Counting a wicked problem: a household survey of SGBV in Ntanka Community

21st August 2023

Conditional and unconditional cash transfers for health outcomes and household expenditure in poor families in low-and middle-income countries

21st August 2023

Business Unusual: Challenges of digitisation in Government

21st August 2023

Session 4: How can we produce better evidence to inform better decisions for better outcomes?

21st August 2023

Session 4: What Does It Take to Introduce Evidence-Informed Decision-Making Training in Low- Middle- Income Countries Training Institutions?

21st August 2023

Evidence-based Practice Research Group, Ghana Physiotherapy Association: One Year on! Get-to-know the Team

18th August 2023

Innovating Capacity Development for EIDM in Africa: Addressing Structural and Value Issues within ecosystems

18th July 2023

Ambassadors for Evidence-Informed Decision-Making in Africa

20th June 2023

Celebrating African Excellence in Evidence Use

20th June 2023

Innovations in EIDM Capacity Development: Implications for various stakeholders in Africa

9th June 2023

Capacity development for evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) in Africa: exploring innovative approaches

4th May 2023

What does legacy thinking within the African EIDM space look like? Views from a retired Young Executive Director

20th April 2023

NCDs a Priority In South Africa: Will Intention Translate Into Action??

31st March 2023

“We are excited about the prospects that lie ahead for us” – 2023 CEL-MP Mentees

29th March 2023

African Rehabilitation Network For a Stronger Rehabilitation Effort And Impact In Africa: Developing Our Rehabilitation Evidence

15th March 2023

User and producer of evidence: a unique story of Luvuyo Jalisa who is a policy-maker and also an evidence synthesis specialist

14th February 2023

A year on: taking stock of my time under PACKS Africa’s Mentorship Programme

31st January 2023

Using the Evidence EcoSpace to Position Ourselves and Build the Africa We Want

20th September 2022

Transformative Action Learning in Navigating the Evidence to Policy Landscape: Lessons from the Ten Years

20th September 2022

Stepping down as Chair of the AEN and the dawn of a new era

19th September 2022

Back to the Roots: Enhancing Mutual Learning and Innovation in Evidence-Informed Decision-Making Using Storytelling

19th September 2022

3R of Evidence-Informed Decision-Making: Reflection, Repurposing and Repositioning

19th September 2022

The 2018 Pretoria Conference, a replay experience

8th September 2022

Evidence 2016: Jump-off point for work on decolonising evidence-informed decision-making on climate change

19th August 2022

Embracing organic, long-term learning through network membership: My 10-year experience with the AEN

19th July 2022

Recognizing incredible teamwork in Africa: AELA 2022

20th April 2022

Joining the EIDM movement in Africa? You’re in the right place: AELA 2022

20th April 2022

Be passionate and patient: AELA 2022

20th April 2022

Pedagogies for EIDM capacity development in Africa

30th March 2022

Developing the African ecosystem through mentorship: a seat at the table of evidence leaders

17th February 2022

Exploring relationships and partnerships for enhancing capacities for EIDM in Africa

3rd February 2022

Capacity development aimed at system-level change in/for evidence use in Africa

7th December 2021

Uganda@59: The evolution of a data ecosystem

17th November 2021

Designing equity into evidence-informed decision-making capacity development in Africa: Experiences from Cameroon

5th November 2021

Africa Evidence Week 2021: a personal reflection on the growth and potential of this regional event

19th October 2021

What’s the fuss? A glance at Measurement and Impact Evaluation

12th October 2021

Matters Evaluation and why Evaluation Matters

12th October 2021

Insights into parameters for an Africa-led capacity development for EIDM

12th October 2021

Community, passion and leadership: standing in awe of what Africa Evidence Week 2021 was

17th September 2021

The Africa Evidence Week: our truly regional platform to showcase evidence use

12th September 2021

Designing a low-tech digital education RCT during a pandemic: tools, tips and tricks

12th September 2021

What do African NGOs need to effectively use evidence in Food and Nutrition Security interventions?

9th September 2021

Walking Together to Improve Livelihoods through Innovation and Best Practices for Underserved Populations in Africa

9th September 2021

Using Formative Research and Social Marketing to Decrypt and Fix a Wicked Problem in Conflict Affected Cameroon: A case study

9th September 2021

The Utility of Cross-Sector Gender Data Linkages for Inclusive Development Outcomes in Africa

9th September 2021

Promoting evidence use: Why and how did we flip from 60-40 to 40-60?

9th September 2021

Fast-tracking Evidence-Informed Decision-Making in Resource Poor Settings: The need for a Transferability Tool

9th September 2021

Connecting evidence to policy and practice in Benin: lessons and perspectives

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

Brazilian Coalition for Evidence brings organizations together to build a network for sharing knowledge in Brazil

16th August 2021

Celebrating the use of evidence for knowledge translation (KT)

20th July 2021

Reflections of an information/search specialist

19th May 2021

AELA 2021: The Culmination of a Passion that Became a Career

15th April 2021

Reflections on three years of informing decisions with data and evidence

16th March 2021

Planning for EVIDENCE 2022: reflecting on and learning from EVIDENCE 2020 ONLINE

9th December 2020

Highlights for 2020 and what does 2021 hold for Africa Evidence Network (AEN)?

9th December 2020

What if we were wrong about whose capacities to build for evidence use?

16th November 2020

EIDM in Africa: where social justice underpins our commitment and Ubuntu bolsters our drive

20th October 2020

Collecting individual voices: The power of stories of change in the EIDM field

13th October 2020

Our Journey Towards Contextualizing A Relevant Evidence Portal: The Role of Networking and Collaborations

30th September 2020

Replicable strategies for institutionalising evidence use: Stories from Africa

21st September 2020

Experiences around the art and science of evidence-use webinar: stories from Africa

18th September 2020

Episode 3: Engaging Policy-Makers in Evidence Implementation

18th September 2020

Exploring communities of practice for EIDM in Africa: prospects and challenges

17th September 2020

Evolving evidence, fake news, and emerging contexts: researchers at the nexus of EIDM for COVID-19

16th September 2020

Celebrating my three years with the Africa Evidence Network

20th August 2020

Improving M&E culture in African governments to support evidence-informed decision-making – survey insights ​​​​​​

17th August 2020

Education institutions’ preparation for the rapid shift to online-learning during the COVID-19 pandemic

22nd July 2020

Peer education as a strategy to promote positive behaviour change among adolescents: Evidence or fallacy?

3rd July 2020

Evidence of a community health intervention: a step towards leaving no one behind in healthcare services

3rd July 2020

Evidence-based approaches to tackling recent increases in gender-based violence

3rd July 2020

Digital citizen evidence and the future of evidence practice in Africa

3rd July 2020

A review of Kenya’s 2019 Data Protection Act: Insights for Data Controllers in Africa

3rd July 2020

Keeping a network engaged and vibrant: Methods, tools, and good practices

30th June 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

How a global pandemic catalyses partnerships and collaborations

19th May 2020

Enhancing capacities amidst the stress of COVID-19

19th May 2020

The Africa Evidence Leadership Award celebrates my personal commitment to EIDM in Africa

17th April 2020

Impact evaluation capacity in Africa: scoping study

13th April 2020

Episode 1: Improving livelihoods of children with disabilities (CWD) using innovation and best practices

13th March 2020

Supporting Ghana’s Parliament to use data to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

20th February 2020

Elements of a successful evaluation capacity building intervention in Africa: A landscape of participant’s perceptions

20th January 2020

EIDM in Africa: innovative at its core

13th December 2019

Walking the Talk: Making data work for Africa’s population and health sector

9th December 2019

We need to talk: Confronting the challenges in collecting and using health data in Africa

19th November 2019

Whose evidence matters – a critique by African practitioners

31st October 2019

West African Network of Emerging Leaders (WANEL) in advancing the translation of health policy and system evidence into practice

11th October 2019

Why should we bother getting research evidence to people who cannot read or write?

13th September 2019

What happened on day 4 of Africa Evidence Week?

13th September 2019

Supporting Research Evidence to Inform Policy Implementation in Education; the Right Thing to do With Pre-Service Teachers in HTTC Bambili-Cameroon

13th September 2019

Strengthening the Use of Research in Environmental Policy Processes in South Africa

13th September 2019

Highlights from Africa Evidence Week

13th September 2019

EBMAfricaNet: An innovative approach of translating and implementing evidence using freely available evidence from existing evidence networks

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

Healthcare evidence brokering for Agenda 2063: the role of early career clinicians and biomedical students in patient involvement

12th September 2019

DataMaps, Evidence, and Decision Making for Sustainable Development Goals: Experiences from Basic Services in Cameroon

12th September 2019

What happened on day 2 of Africa Evidence Week?

11th September 2019

Experience of the West African Health Organization (WAHO) in promoting the use of evidence in decision-making and practice in the ECOWAS region

11th September 2019

Expérience de l’Organisation Ouest-Africaine de la Santé (OOAS) dans la promotion de l’utilisation des évidences dans la prise de décision et la prati

11th September 2019

Engaging policy makers in the use of evidence in agriculture: Case study in inland fishery in Benin

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

Evidence-Policy-Action Network for advancing evidence use in policy and practice in Benin

10th September 2019

The #AfricaEvidenceWeek: What’s happening in Ghana?

9th September 2019

Evidence Hesitancy: How an innovative evidence translation approach decrypted a wicked problem

9th September 2019

Community Evidence Home Schools (CEHS): A tool for achieving early years intervention benefits for children aged 3-5 years in fragile communities

9th September 2019

New EIDM hub launched in time for Africa Evidence Week

2nd September 2019

Using VakaYiko’s EIPM toolkit post-programme: a case of the Ethiopian Ministry of Health Workshop

7th August 2019

QES scholars learning about Africa’s evidence production and use

7th August 2019

Promoting EIDM amongst health care and education policy-makers through JBI- Comprehensive Systematic Review Premier Course Training; eBASE Africa, Cam

7th August 2019

Only together – award recipient’s reflections on how to champion evidence in Africa

7th August 2019

Need for evidence informed and multisectoral National Alcohol policy in Zimbabwe

7th August 2019

Luvuyo Zigana – ‘captured’ for evidence-informed policy-making in the water-environment-human nexus

7th August 2019

Africa Evidence Week celebrates Africa’s evidence-use for decisions

7th August 2019

100 Days Awareness on Antimicrobial Resistance

7th August 2019

If evidence-informed decision-making is our religion, we fall prey to this deadly sin

17th May 2019

From capacity building to developing capacities: dreaming big about improving evidence use

20th February 2019

Connecting the dots between different communities: Mark Heywood looks forward to EVIDENCE 2018

8th August 2018

Let’s get the conversation started! Satellite sessions at EVIDENCE 2018

20th July 2018

An evidence leader’s thoughts on evidence-use in Africa

29th June 2018

Connect with other environmentalists interested in evidence

20th June 2018

Abstracts are in! Preliminary reflections on submissions for EVIDENCE 2018

25th May 2018

Innovative EVIDENCE 2018

11th May 2018

Evidence 2018 to discuss four crucial topics for Africa-Part 1

13th April 2018

Strands and leaders at EVIDENCE 2018

29th March 2018

Guidelines International Network African Community: Taking Leadership for Clinical Guidance for Africa

16th 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

Calling the aspiring and inspiring amongst you: The Africa Evidence Leadership Award

31st January 2018

EVIDENCE 2018: We hope to meet you there

12th January 2018

Where is Africa Evidence Network going post 2017?

6th December 2017

Evidence, morals, and justice: a personal story and experiments in knowing

23rd November 2017

Reflections on data analysis, management and visualization from SAMEA 2017 conference

6th November 2017

Global Evidence Summit: an epiphany for a young and emerging researcher

31st October 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

Key highlights of the 8th AFREA conference and what it means for Eastern Africa

31st July 2017

The road to affirmative action in Ghana: from evidence to policy

20th July 2017

South-South collaboration to strengthen evidence use in Africa

20th June 2017

What do we know about the link between ecosystem and poverty alleviation in Africa? An interactive map of the evidence

8th June 2017

Does Africa have enough capacity to produce evidence maps and evidence syntheses?

31st May 2017

Peer learning strengthens African evaluation methods

19th May 2017

The Monitoring and Evaluation Association of Swaziland attends the 8th International African Evaluation Association conference

13th April 2017

The power of RCTs: reflections & debates

31st March 2017

Improving the evidence-policy interface can mean a long-term commitment

17th March 2017

Why are we not able to fix the youth unemployment problem in South Africa?

24th February 2017

How to build African evaluation capacities

10th February 2017

Evidence synthesis at ACE: Supporting the use of research evidence in Africa

31st January 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

Policy-relevant evidence maps: DPME leading innovation in evidence-informed decision-making

26th October 2016

Evidence 2016: What an exciting and productive conference

21st October 2016

Day 3: Networking and relationships the tool of choice? #evidence2016

4th 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

Evidence gaps could compromise youth development initiatives in Zimbabwe

19th August 2016

Strengthened oversight capacity within African legislatures

19th August 2016

The Africa Evidence Network (AEN): Spearheading the annihilation of the researcher-policy maker incompatibility fallacy

29th July 2016

Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence: 5 Successes from the Vaka Yiko programme

15th July 2016

Count down to Evidence 2016 (81 days to go…)

30th June 2016

The AEN beyond 2016: preliminary results from the network membership survey

15th June 2016

Interaction between researchers and decision-makers: first, do no harm

23rd May 2016

ICT in education in developing countries: considering the evidence and implications for South Africa

20th May 2016

Science of using science: researching the use of research evidence in decision-making

28th April 2016

Science of using science: an introduction to two new research reports on the use of evidence in decision-making

27th April 2016

Policy insights on the use of evidence to reflect on South Africa’s 20 years of democracy

20th April 2016

Financial management = Good quality accounting + Generous helping of EIDM

18th April 2016

Better Links, Better EIDM

31st March 2016

Moving the South African EIDM Community of Practice forward: Reflection on the Africa Evidence Network & PAN Children Roadshow

18th March 2016

All stakeholders must work together to strengthen Zimbabwe’s policy landscape

19th February 2016

Looking deeper to apply evidence better

29th January 2016

Theories of Change and Logic Models: the often-ignored tools for better evaluation

15th January 2016

Successes, challenges and opportunities for evidence informed policy-making in Zimbabwe

1st December 2015

The long walk to evidence-informed development: final thoughts on evidence-literacy, ultra poor graduations, and playing games to change rules

13th November 2015

What do civil servants in Ghana and Zimbabwe really think about evidence-informed policy making?

30th October 2015

Putting evidence on the table and increasing its uptake for effective policy and programming in Malawi

20th October 2015

The long walk to evidence-informed development: arriving at irreversible policy changes

25th September 2015

Investing in capacity: our barriers to evidence use in government workshop for government officials in South Africa -Part 2

11th September 2015

Investing in capacity: our evidence-informed workshop for government officials in South Africa

28th August 2015

Investing in capacity: our barriers to evidence use in government workshop for government officials in South Africa

28th August 2015

Positioning capacity-building on the long walk to evidence-informed development

21st August 2015

Growing the Evidence –Informed Decision-Making (EIDM) Community

31st July 2015

Going for the sweet spot in evidence-informed decision-making: the behaviour of making decisions

10th July 2015

Where do we access evidence?

29th May 2015

Training helps embed EIPM into Ghanaian government practices

15th May 2015

When evidence gets personal: The role of evidence in choices about residential safety in South Africa

25th April 2015

Evidence. Influence. Impact. & a good story to tell

12th April 2015

Where to for the young at heart on evidence-informed decision-making?

27th March 2015

Losing sight in the jungle of reviews: a comment on the system behind ‘systematic reviews’

11th March 2015

Does Evaluation really matter? Lessons from life experiences

20th February 2015

The long walk to evidence-informed development

7th February 2015

The negative socio-economic consequences of ideologically-based policy development: Land Reform

23rd January 2015

To do good or to feel good – the case for evidence- rather than intention-based development

9th January 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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