For decades there have been calls by concerned stakeholders to improve the quality of
education research, and some progress has been made towards creating a more secure …

Background Health policy-making can benefit from more effective use of research. In many
policy settings there is scope to increase capacity for using research individually and …

Education is an applied field for research. In the past 20 years or more, there has been
increasing pressure from stakeholders like funders and policy-makers for education …

Abstract Background The Economic Commission of the West African States (ECOWAS),
through her specialised health Institution, the West African Health Organization (WAHO) is …

Background In order to reignite gains and accelerate progress toward improved malaria
control and elimination, policy, strategy, and operational decisions should be derived from …

There is growing interest in how different forms of knowledge can strengthen policy-making
in low-and middle-income country (LMIC) health systems. Additionally, health policy and …

Background Knowledge translation (KT) is currently endorsed by global health policy actors
as a means to improve outcomes by institutionalising evidence-informed policy-making …

Despite efforts made by sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries to promote evidence-informed
health policymaking, translating research evidence into policy remains a very challenging …

Background: There is need to strengthen institutions and mechanisms that can more
systematically promote interactions between researchers, policy-makers and other …

Background Among the many barriers to evidence use in decision-making, weak capacity
for evidence use has attracted a lot of focus in the last decade. The study aims to inform and …