There’s a “we” in Nairobi Evidence Week. Creating resilience in evidence based policy through collaboration.
People who work to translate research evidence into effective policy have long critiqued the yawning chasm that separates the research and policy worlds. On one side of the chasm are…
The work is not done: creating new paths to an equitable world in uncertain times
There are many valid perspectives from which to criticise the development sector. A lot of the work in the space, for example, fails to achieve the intended expectations. One could…
What happens to the people? Understanding good and evil through citizen ethnography
This article is part of Busara’s Tafakari 2025 yearbook. You can download the whole yearbook here. In mechanics, impact describes the collision of bodies. For instance, in the case of a…
Building research capacity in Africa via big team science: challenges and lessons learned from the ManyLabs Africa initiative
This essay written by Adeyemi Adetula (Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike & Université Grenoble Alpes) is part of the book A Better How . Despite constituting 79% of the world…









