Do evidence networks make a difference?. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Stewart, Ruth
• Is Part Of: Journal of development effectiveness. Volume 10:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 171
• Page End: 178
• Publication Date: 2018-01-02
• Subjects: Networks -- evidence -- Global Evidence Summit; Economic development -- Periodicals; Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; Economic development; Economic history; Developing countries; Periodicals; 338.91724
• DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2018.1425734
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1943-9342

Abstract

ABSTRACT: As part of the Global Evidence Summit in Cape Town in September 2017, Prof Ruth Stewart gave the keynote addressing the question of 'Do evidence networks make a difference?'. The following text is based closely on that opening address. She outlines how evidence networks make a difference by building our shared understanding across the evidence ecosystem, enable growth in our shared capacities, and enable a potential and readiness for change. In this article she provides additional information supporting each of these three ways in which evidence networks make a difference, as well as elaborating on how her work, and that of her Centre at the University of Johannesburg, is closely aligned with the production and use of evidence synthesis. She makes a strong case for her central argument: 'If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together'.