TY - JOUR N2 - 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?. VL - 10 N1 - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions. SN - 1943-9342 ID - discovery10071687 AV - public EP - 178 JF - Journal of Development Effectiveness UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2018.1425734 SP - 171 KW - networks KW - evidence KW - Global Evidence Summit TI - Do evidence networks make a difference? IS - 1 A1 - Stewart, R Y1 - 2018/// ER -