Africa LEEPS Partnership Enters New Era of Full African Leadership, Signaling a Major Milestone for Locally Led Development
The Africa LEEPS Partnership (Learning together to advance Evidence and Equity in Policymaking to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals) announces a significant milestone in its journey to strengthen evidence-informed policymaking across sub-Saharan...
Beyond Training: Rethinking How We Strengthen Capacity for Equitable Policymaking
Across Africa and around the world, policymakers, researchers, and practitioners are facing an increasingly complex landscape with competing priorities, shrinking budgets, new technologies, and urgent social challenges. In this context, evidence-informed...
What Works in Capacity Strengthening? Insights from Training 1,000+ Evidence Actors in West Africa
Across West Africa, evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) remains a cornerstone of effective and equitable governance, yet the capacity to generate, interpret, and use high-quality evidence is uneven. While research production in the region has...
Pan-African Conference on Environment, Climate Change, and Health
The Ministry of Health, Ministry of Environment Climate Change and Forestry, Climate and Health African Network for Collaboration and Engagement (CHANCE), Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN), National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA), Kenya...
Evidence 2025, hosted by the Africa Evidence Network (AEN) and the African Center for Equitable Development (ACED), is a groundbreaking event that brings together the Pan-African community to advance evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) across the...
LEEPS Case Study Series: High Impact Outputs that Effectively Communicate Evidence to Policymakers
Although there has been a proliferation of research on many Sustainable Development Goal-related topics, much of it has not been designed with a policymaker audience in mind. In many cases, evidence outputs are not tailored to meet the needs of...
From Status Updates to Solutions: How the Africa LEEPS Partnership Used LabStorms to Unlock Real Collaboration
Our quarterly partnership meetings had a familiar rhythm: updates, reports, and announcements. While informative, they lacked the rich dialogue and collaborative problem-solving we wanted to foster. We needed to shift the focus of our time together from...
Webinar on Refining our Approaches to Evidence-Informed Policymaking Design and Measurement
As the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) deadline draws near, African countries are under growing pressure to develop equitable policies grounded in strong evidence. However, ensuring that evidence consistently informs policymaking requires more...
Repository of systematic reviews on interventions in environment, climate change and health
The Repository of systematic reviews on interventions in environment, climate change and health (ECH) highlights the state of evidence on interventions in major ECH topics that improve health outcomes or reduce harmful exposures. This database may also...
