Advocacy

Inform and influence policy

Empowers Key Stakeholders

Promotes evidence-based decision-making, empowers key stakeholders within the African policy landscape, and forges partnerships with key players to drive policy action.

The unit aims to inform and influence policy discussions and decision-making by identifying and nurturing champions within and outside government.

Sustainable Policy Impact

Cross Organizational Collaboration

We emphasize strong cross-organizational collaboration with a focus on structured and strategic engagement.

We work within key thematic areas, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, food systems, health system strengthening, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), with gender and climate change as cross-cutting themes.

While our primary focus is on these signature issues, we are flexible and occasionally collaborate on other significant topics.

Advocacy Strategies

Our advocacy efforts take a comprehensive approach, underpinning our commitment to driving substantial and lasting regional policy changes. It revolves around three strategies:

Building partnerships with key policy stakeholders to lead policy changes and provide support in policy processes.
Strengthening the capacity of strategic stakeholders within the African policy ecosystem to generate, synthesize, and utilize evidence for improved policy and practice.
Promoting evidence-based decision-making through robust relationships, joint evidence projects, evidence co-creation, rapid synthesis, policy analysis, and problem-driven Political Economy Analyses (PEA).