Webinar: Promise M Nduku - Co-production and evidence-based decision making (EIDM): Practical reflections from South Africa

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Practical reflections of key lesson learnt through co-producing policy relevant maps with South African government departments at national and provincial level over the past 8 years. The presentation will highlight the co-production and approach, give an overview of projects conducted and what this has influenced our evidence-based decision making (EIDM) activities.

Speaker:

Promise M Nduku is an Evidence synthesis specialist at the Pan-African Collective for Evidence (PACE) NPC. He holds a master’s degree in development economics from the University of Johannesburg and is currently pursuing a PhD in Health economics at the same institution. He is passionate about the potential of evidence-informed decision-making to draw on the suite of evidence syntheses methodologies, and experience of responding to policy evidence needs. He specialises in conducting and supporting evidence syntheses as well as the design of institutional knowledge structures to enhance the use of evidence by decision-makers. Promise co-leads PACE’s work supporting national government decision-makers to integrate evidence in formulating and designing public policies and programmes in South Africa.

Since 2017, Promise has led 12 multi-disciplinary projects that have aimed to produce and/or support decision-makers in using systematic reviews and policy-relevant evidence maps in their policy-making processes. Promise has conducted over 30 syntheses, including systematic reviews and evidence maps and collaborations in developing policy-relevant evidence maps and responsive evidence bases with the South African Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) which informed five national policies.

In 2024, he joined the Methodological Advisory Group (MAG) supporting the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) Evidence-based Public Health Methods project in developing hands-on methods guidance for evidence synthesis and evidence-based public health advice focusing on infectious disease epidemiology, prevention, and control.