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•November 20, 2024

Reflections on Utafiti Sera Journey: Important Lessons from the Utafiti Sera Houses

By Jim Kaketch “What happens when policy makers, research community and governance institutions from across Africa come together to reflect and learn from each other?...
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•November 20, 2024

Utafiti Sera Houses – Influencing programming, policy and practice in Africa through co-creation of evidence

By Mercy Limiri and Jim Kaketch Africa’s public policy making landscape is rapidly evolving to adapt to the multiple interests and intricate interconnection and geopolitics....
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•September 14, 2024

Towards Evidence-Informed Policy Coherence in the Food Value Chain in Kenya: The Food Systems Transformation Project

As agricultural investments intensify to meet the food needs of a bulging global population, evidence points to the varying effects of conventional agriculture on environmental...
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•April 26, 2023

Towards Evidence-Informed Policy Coherence in the Food Value Chain in Kenya: The Food Systems Transformation Project

As agricultural investments intensify to meet the food needs of a bulging global population, evidence points to the varying effects of conventional agriculture on environmental...
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•April 6, 2023

Citizen voices key to enhancing accountability in the water sector and the achievement of sustainable development goal 6 (SDG 6)

By Jim Kaketch, Martin Atela and Tim Brewer  Background During the UN Water Conference 2023 (March 22-24, 2023), the UN headquarters in New York was abuzz...
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•March 17, 2023

Road Construction beyond Engineering – Lessons from Evidence-Informed Policymaking Convening on Urban Governance

Infrastructure development is a key driver for progress globally and yet it remains one of the most complex challenges of the 21st century in Africa....
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•March 17, 2023

The Rapidly Urbanizing Rwanda

Rwanda’s Vision 2020, launched in the year 2000, focused on guiding the nation on what to do in order to survive and regain its dignity....
•February 21, 2023

Utafiti Sera: Building vibrant communities of practice to enhance Evidence Informed Decision Making (EIDM) in Africa.

Lack of meaningful engagements between researchers and policy practitioners have often stifled policy making efforts in Africa. As a consequence, research and policy making processes...
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•November 14, 2017

Two lessons for early involvement of stakeholders in research

Published on November 14, 2017 A fundamental principle for conducting research that is easily put to use by stakeholders is to involve them in the...