• Bring together the Pan-African community for learning, sharing, and relationship-building
• Provide an opportunity for connection and collaboration to enhance mutual learning and the development of new ideas about supporting EIDM.
• Build content for EIDM practice.
• Provide opportunities to share EIDM practice experiences of different experts in the community.

Evidence 23 has announced a variety of interesting speakers who will be attending the event. Get to know them more below!

Kirchuffs Atengble is former Executive Director of PACKS Africa, a youth-led Pan-African think tank operating to improve uptake of research and other forms of evidence in policy processes and practice. Individual and institutional-level capacity development has been a core focus in his line of work, particularly through diagnostics of information systems and knowledge management. He has over 10 years of experience within the field of evidence-to-policy, playing various roles at local, national and regional levels of collaboration to enhance opportunities for interventions that ultimately target human development. While providing strategic leadership to PACKS, he also leads on specific initiatives, aiming to nurture a really influential organisation for evidence-informed policies. His strategic position within the EIDM fraternity has earned him various appointments, including Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg, Visiting faculty at the University of Southampton, and Advisory Group member of the Africa Evidence Network (AEN).

Adeline Sibanda

Adeline Sibanda is a Senior Resident, Impact with the Mastercard Foundation. Adeline has over 30 years’ experience in strategy, program design, planning, monitoring and evaluation. She is passionate about promoting the use of evaluative evidence with a decolonisation lens in all policy processes. Adeline has worked in over 25 sub-Saharan African countries with Civil Society Organisations, Community Based organisations, Governments, private sector, UN Agencies and other development partners. She is past Co-Chair of EvalPartners, Past President of the International Organisation for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE) and Past President of the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA). Adeline has been raising awareness and advocating for the Made In Africa Evaluation an AfrEA initiative promoting evaluation practice rooted in African contexts and priorities, as well as the South-South Cooperation in Evaluation (S2SE), an initiative of five regional evaluation associations from the Global South.

Mirabel Yuh Nain