{"id":29114,"date":"2018-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afidep.org\/beneficiary-of-afideps-capacity-strengthening-programme-wins-africa-evidence-leadership-award\/"},"modified":"2018-06-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T21:00:00","slug":"beneficiary-of-afideps-capacity-strengthening-programme-wins-africa-evidence-leadership-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afidep.org\/fr\/beneficiary-of-afideps-capacity-strengthening-programme-wins-africa-evidence-leadership-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Beneficiary of AFIDEP&rsquo;s capacity strengthening programme wins Africa Evidence Leadership Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/africaevidencenetwork.org\/\">Africa Evidence Network<\/a>\u00a0(AEN) at the University of Johannesburg (UJ)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uj.ac.za\/newandevents\/Pages\/UJ-launches-Africa-Evidence-Leadership-Award.aspx\">launched the first annual AELA<\/a>\u00a0to recognise and honour people who have raised the awareness of evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Velia Manyonga, Head of the Research Division at the Parliament of Malawi, is the first recipient of the Africa Evidence Leadership Award (AELA). \u00ab\u00a0It is so wonderful to have been chosen for this award to acknowledge and support Africa&rsquo;s achievement in evidence-informed policy-making\u00a0\u00bb, says Ms Manyonga.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of how she champions evidence-informed decision-making in her current role, Ms Manyonga says \u00ab\u00a0My work involves accessing, synthesising, and helping Members of Parliament to apply evidence in their decision-making roles within Parliament.\u00a0\u00bb Ms. Mayonga is a beneficiary of AFIDEP&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/afidep\/our-work\/strengthening-capacity-use-evidence-policymaking-spaces\/past-programmes\/health-policy-evidence-strengthening\/\">programme<\/a> on strengthening the capacity of health policymakers and legislators in accessing, interpreting, and using research evidence in decision-making processes.<\/p>\n<p>The first winner of this prestigious award , worth over USD4000 \u00a0has been vetted by the membership as well as the advisory group of the AEN which spans not only Africa but the globe and includes distinguished individuals working in EIDM.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0There is a lot of good work being done by Africans for Africa and our hope is not only to celebrate those who are giving back but to also encourage the spirit of Ubuntu in others. We need to acknowledge the innovative leadership in evidence-informed decision-making happening in Africa and showcase it to the world,\u00a0\u00bb explains AEN Senior Manager Siziwe Ngcwabe, UJ.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Manyonga will be presenting her EIDM work with the parliament of Malawi as a keynote address in the programme at the upcoming\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/evidenceconference.org.za\/\">EVIDENCE 2018 conference<\/a>, taking place from 25 September 2018 until 28 September 2018 in Pretoria South Africa (for more information on the conference,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.evidenceconference.org.za\/\">click here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Ms Manyonga was selected out of a pool of government officials, civil society, and researchers \u00ab\u00a0\u0093 among others \u00ab\u00a0\u0093who were all eligible to apply for the award. Out of this pool of applicants, a total of five candidates were shortlisted; these people include\u00a0Dr Julian Bagyendera of Uganda, Dr Richmond Nii Okai Aryeetey of Ghana, Dr Patrick Okwen of Cameroon, and Ms Jennifer Mutua of Kenya. In addition to the winner of the AELA, two honourable mentions were selected for their impressive work in EIDM in Africa: Dr Patrick Okwen of Cameroon and Ms Jennifer Mutua of Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the award is to showcase the status of Africa in global EIDM discussions by recognising impactful, insightful, and innovative engagement with EIDM in Africa. Administered by the AEN secretariat as a travel grant, the award will be awarded annually by the AEN. To find out more about the application procedure to prepare for the next call,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.africaevidencenetwork.org\/africa-evidence-leadership-award\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This announcement was originally posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uj.ac.za\/newandevents\/Pages\/uj-awards-africa-evidence-leadership-award.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the\u00a0Africa Evidence Network\u00a0(AEN) at the University of Johannesburg (UJ)\u00a0launched the first annual AELA\u00a0to recognise and honour people who have raised the awareness of evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) in Africa. Ms Velia Manyonga, Head of the Research Division at the Parliament of Malawi, is the first recipient of the Africa Evidence Leadership Award (AELA). \u00ab\u00a0It is so wonderful to have been chosen for this award to acknowledge and support Africa&rsquo;s achievement in evidence-informed policy-making\u00a0\u00bb, says Ms Manyonga. Speaking of how she champions evidence-informed decision-making in her current role, Ms Manyonga says \u00ab\u00a0My work involves accessing, synthesising, and helping Members of Parliament [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[3683,2456,2649,2439,2421,3115],"programme":[3000,3005],"country":[],"cop26":[],"class_list":["post-29114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-fr","tag-capacity-strengthening-fr","tag-eidm-fr","tag-eipm-fr","tag-evidence-fr","tag-research-fr","tag-secure-health-fr","programme-gouvernance-et-responsabilite","programme-renforcer-la-capacite-dutiliser-les-donnees-probantes-de-la-recherche-dans-les-politiques-de-sante"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Beneficiary of AFIDEP&#039;s capacity strengthening programme wins Africa Evidence Leadership Award - African Institute for Development Policy - AFIDEP<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/afidep.org\/fr\/beneficiary-of-afideps-capacity-strengthening-programme-wins-africa-evidence-leadership-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beneficiary of AFIDEP&#039;s capacity strengthening programme wins Africa Evidence Leadership Award - African Institute for Development Policy - AFIDEP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Recently, the\u00a0Africa Evidence Network\u00a0(AEN) at the University of Johannesburg (UJ)\u00a0launched the first annual AELA\u00a0to recognise and honour people who have raised the awareness of evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) in Africa. 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