May 2, 2024

Stakeholder Engagement Workshop

Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) for Africa: An Evidence and Gap Map

About the Annual Meeting

About the Event

About the Workshop

About the Conference

The International Centre for Evaluation and Development (ICED) with the support of the Science For Africa Foundation (SFA Foundation) brought together about seventy (70) key stakeholders within the agricultural and climate change sector mainly from academia, policy makers, development practitioners, researchers, donors, Civil Society Organizations, Government institutions and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) across the African continent for a stakeholder engagement workshop on climate change adaptation held at the Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana on the 2nd of May, 2024 from 8:30 am – 2:00 pm GMT.

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Concept Note

The International Centre for Evaluation and Development (ICED), an Africa-based and led “Think-and-Do-Tank” that combines research and innovation with extensive practical experience in evaluation for development in Africa, has received funding from the Hewlett Foundation to support its work in Africa. ICED would be developing an Evidence and Gap Map for Gender Equity, that will enable the production and design of Evidence-Based Decision-Making Products (EBDMPs) and tools that can promote high utilization of evidence in the Foundation’s Gender Equity and Governance Program in West and East Africa, and support the work of the Foundation’s grantees.

The specific objectives for this work with the Foundation involves the development of an Evidence and Gap Map (EGM); conducting evidence synthesis; and the publication of cell wise synthesis and summaries for policy briefs, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, guidelines, protocols, and checklists, to support evidence-informed policies and practices for specific interventions. In view of the above, ICED engaged with the Foundation’s grantees.

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Theme

Supporting Evidence-Informed Policy (EIP) through the Development of Evidence-Based Decision-Making Products

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Goal

To promote high utilization of evidence in Gender and Governance policies and practices in West and East Africa

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Conference Objectives

Objectives

The objectives of this consultative engagement were:

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To gain a comprehensive understanding of the various interventions being implemented by the grantees in the areas of Inclusive Governance, Women Economic Empowerment and Reproductive Health in East and West Africa.
To identify other focus areas of the grantees’ interventions such as education, health, political participation, and social protection.
To identify the outcomes and intermediate outcomes of various interventions in Inclusive Governance, Women Economic Empowerment and Reproductive Health.
To develop a shared understanding of the Evidence and Gap Map for Gender Equality and its potential role in promoting evidence-informed policies and practices for specific interventions.
To identify the challenges and opportunities for evidence-informed policies and practices in the context of the grantees’ interventions.
To identify the potential uses of the Evidence and Gap Map for Gender Equality by the grantees, such as informing program design, monitoring and evaluation and advocacy.