Status: Ongoing
Jan 01
Dec 12
Motivation
While the evidence base on the impacts of global poverty and economic
development interventions in Africa is growing rapidly, the share of published
research produced by scholars from African countries remains disproportionately
low. Thankfully, investments in resources, training and career development
opportunities for African sc...
Status: Ongoing
Jan 01
Dec 31
Demand-Driven Research is characterized by its responsiveness to the needs and priorities of stakeholders, including policymakers, practitioners, and communities
affected by the issues being studied. This approach emphasizes the need for research that is directly relevant to
the challenges faced by decision-makers, with the g...
Status: Completed
Mar 10
Jun 30
This project seeks to promote the
translation and uptake of evidence generated through rigorous approaches into
policy as was exemplified in the Niche
of Impact Evaluation in East Africa report.
Four policy outreach related initiatives are in progress:Fredrick Manang
is working with the Tanzania Revenue
Authority (TRA) to co-create Impa...
Status: Completed
Feb 01
Sep 30
This project seeks to address the evidence gap in the policy making landscape that was exemplified in the Niche of Impact Evaluation in East Africa report. Five Demand Driven related Systematic Reviews
and Meta-Aalysis being developed include:
1. Impacts of resilience
and adaptive capacity interventions to climate change on children and wo...
Status: Completed
Jan 01
Dec 31
In 2018, we concluded
a comprehensive study to determine stakeholders’ demand for impact evaluation,
document gaps and identify opportunities for Decision Focused Evaluation (DFE)
across five countries namely, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Ethiopia.
Findings indicate that there is limited use and uptake of impact evaluation
across the ...
Status: Completed
Nov 10
Nov 27
In 2020, we held a series of training workshops to understand Impact Evaluation needs of policymakers and media
practitioners. The outcome informed
development of curriculums and training modules for the two constituents that
were later piloted and packaged for training.
We are inviting policymakers and
media practitioners to participate in th...
Status: Completed
Mar 01
Dec 31
The “Contextualizing IE Pedagogy in Africa (CIPA) project" is a joint initiative between the Centre for Global Challenges based in Utrecht University (UU) and the Network of Impact Evaluation
Researchers in Africa (NIERA) based at the United States International University (USIU-Africa). The project was conceived against evid...