Regional engagement in supporting evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM)

The Zimbabwe Evidence Informed Policy Network (ZeipNET) actively participates in regional initiatives, such as the Africa Evidence Network, to support evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM). See the following blogs on regional EIDM issues:

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

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

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

4. 3R of Evidence-Informed Decision-Making: Reflection, Repurposing and Repositioning

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Evidence gaps could compromise youth development initiatives in Zimbabwe

12. Policy dialogues: Lessons from the BCURE programme in Zimbabwe

13. Interview with Zimbabwe policy-maker: rapid synthesis service

14. AEN’S RESOURCES & NETWORK PROPELLED INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHENING

15. FROM MERELY DEVELOPING CAPACITY TO INSTITUTIONALISING EIDM IN THE HEALTH SECTOR IN ZIMBABWE

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

About the author: Ronald Munatsi is the Director of the Zimbabwe Evidence Informed Policy Network (ZeipNET). ZeipNET works to interface evidence and policy through evidence synthesis initiatives, including institutional capacity building focusing on the interface between research and policy with an emphasis on strengthening capacities across individual, institutional and systemic levels. Disclaimer: The views expressed in published blog posts, as well as any errors or omissions, are the sole responsibility of the author/s and do not represent the views of ZeipNET, its secretariat, its trustees, its partners, or its funders; nor does it imply endorsement by the afore-mentioned parties.