Africa LEEPS Partnership Enters New Era of Full African Leadership, Signaling a Major Milestone for Locally Led Development
Beyond Training: Rethinking How We Strengthen Capacity for Equitable Policymaking
What Works in Capacity Strengthening? Insights from Training 1,000+ Evidence Actors in West Africa
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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...
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...
You’ve Got the Data – Now What?: Lessons from Leaders Across Africa on Embedding Evidence Use in Policymaking
Authors: Amy Nye, Senior Program Officer, R4D, Natasha Ledlie, Program Director, R4D This blog was developed with input from Violet Murunga (African Institute for Development Policy); Amadou Gueye (Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rural); Pauline Ngimwa...
Africa LEEPS Progress Report October 2024 to March 2025
This report provides a snapshot of the partnership’s progress over the last six months, despite partner organizations’ challenges in navigating unpredictable policy processes and the time-intensive nature of policy engagement. Africa LEEPS partners...
Video: Africa LEEPS Partnership in Action
In November of last year, we gathered members of our Africa LEEPS Partnership in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, for collaborative learning and joint problem-solving. During our gathering, we exchanged approaches and strategies for advancing evidence-based...
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Africa LEEPS brings together leading evidence organizations from across Africa to strengthen the use of evidence in policymaking and accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
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