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7 April 2025 / Blogs

A healthier start, a brighter future: Advancing Africa’s commitment to healthcare

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7 April 2025 / Blogs

AFIDEP, Ministry of Health, engages Members of Parliament on health financing reforms and budget allocations in Malawi

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11 November 2024 / News

Inaugural Evidence for Development (Evi4Dev) Conference Set for May 6-8, 2025 in Nairobi to Tackle Key Africa’s Development Challenges Through Innovation and Evidence

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Evidence for Development (Evi4Dev) Conference

The African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP), African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), and Science for Africa Foundation, in partnership with other institutions, are hosting the first-ever Evidence for Development (Evi4Dev) Conference, set to take place on May 6–8, 2025, in Nairobi, Kenya. The conference will centre research, data, and innovations in Africa’s development efforts to accelerate progress towards the realisation of the African Union’s Agenda 2063, and the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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3 November 2023 / News

?Now out! Annual Report 2022

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12 August 2024 / Blogs

Youth as agents of change: Utilising digital photography to co-create solutions among young people impacted by tuberculosis in Malawi

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18 June 2024 / Research Briefs

Unlocking the potential of health financing in Zambia: A focus on innovative solutions

Zambia has made some progress in improving its health system and expanding access to health services, especially for the poor and vulnerable groups (Masiye et al., 2016). However, it still relies on external funding, high out-of-pocket (OOP) payments, and low coverage of health insurance (Chansa et al., 2020). To address these challenges, Zambia has adopted and implemented various innovative health financing mechanisms. This evidence brief unpacks the health financing mechanisms in Zambia.

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Our Focus Areas

Population Dynamics and the Demographic Dividend

We focus on clarifying the implications of population change –including population growth, age structure changes, migration and urbanisation– on Africa’s development prospects.

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Health and Wellbeing

This is an area of our work that aims to promote and nurture strong health systems in African countries in order to make significant progress on persistent health challenges as well as emerging epidemics such as non-communicable diseases, antimicrobial resistance, neglected tropical diseases and many others.

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Education and Skills Development

Our work on this theme focuses on synthesising and translating evidence and promoting its use in order to enhance the prioritisation of education and skill development and guide operationalisation of education reforms to turn Africa’s youthful population into a driving force for socioeconomic transformation and development.

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The Environment and Climate Change

Our work on this theme focuses on support African governments to apply systems thinking and planning in their efforts to address the challenges posed by the combined effect of rapid population growth and climate change on the continent.

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Governance and Accountability

Our work on this theme focuses on strengthening capacity for evidence-informed decision-making as a mechanism for enhancing better governance and accountability in service delivery and use of public resources. We also look at the intersection of governance with gender equality.

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Gender Equity

We place great emphasis on understanding how to accelerate gender equality, how to address barriers to female participation in all spheres of life, and how to improve health and economic outcomes for girls, boys, men and women.

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EIPM

The EIDM/EIPM Portal is a digital repository catering to information and knowledge sharing needs of researchers, policymakers, media, civil society and other stakeholders working in the evidence-informed policy and decision-making (EIDM/EIPM) space. We are committed to providing a platform where EIDM related publications, policies, best practices, case studies, tools and resources are published and promoted. We will also facilitate live and offline engagement between researchers on EIDM knowledge, sharing of lessons and experiences, consultations, mentorships, capacity building, collaboration.

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Our Objectives

Strengthen Capacity in Evidence Use for Decision-Making

In order for Africa to achieve sustained, equitable development, the decision-making practices— especially in the public sector —should be underpinned by evidence. This requires a culture of consistent evidence use, especially in the public sector.

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Provide Evidence and Technical Assistance to Accelerate Achievement of SDGs

While supporting African governments in policy formulation, we have identified gaps in the use of evidence for priority-setting, programme implementation and performance management. Policymakers’ requests for evidence to help them move from policy formulation to prioritisation of interventions further confirms the existence of these gaps.

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Recent Publications

7 April 2025 / Research Reports

Integrating gender and evidence-based practices in healthcare decision making

This story of change is part of a series that illustrates the early results of a 2-Week Virtual LEEPS Evidence-Informed and Equity in Policymaking Training Workshop delivered to members of the Africa Research Impact Network (ARIN) who attended the training. The stories of change illustrate how the training has improved the training of researchers in higher learning institutions, grant writing, advocacy strategies, research into policy and practice processes and project/ programme design and implementation. Download:

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