In recent years, there have been notable investments in building research capacities in low- and middle-income countries, in particular in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, approaches to building capacity to produce and use evaluation evidence and evidence synthesis have been more sporadic, highly targeted and implemented toward accountability and internal or donor requirements, not toward broader, learning and decision-making objectives.

Session sponsors agree that it is time to challenge our assumptions of how evidence capacity-building agendas are set. We are inviting colleagues working on evaluation and synthesis evidence use to join us for a constructive dialogue.

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