In sub-Saharan Africa, evidence-informed decision-making is constrained by many factors related in one way to the quality of available evidence, which may be fragmented, outdated, and inappropriate, and in another way to the lack of capacities of potential evidence users to source, extract, understand and mainstream evidence into concrete decisions. Yet, evidence is essential to help policymakers and practitioners (non-governmental…
A large amount of evidence has been generated and available during these last decades. However, This does not promote informed decision-making for the implementation of adequate actions and relevant interventions with more lasting positive impacts within communities. These steps include: Ask yourself the right questions. The first step is the definition of objectives and learning questions to guide the evidence…
Evidence is essential to help policymakers and development actors to make informed-decisions and to implement appropriate actions, especially in sensitive areas such as food and nutrition security (FNS). Evidence can be scientific (statistical data, evaluation results, research findings) or non-scientific (citizens’ opinions, endogenous beliefs and knowledge). Unfortunately, policymakers and development actors such as non-governmental organisations (NGOs) make very little use…