eprintid: 10071687 rev_number: 19 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/07/16/87 datestamp: 2019-04-05 13:27:31 lastmod: 2021-10-07 22:04:01 status_changed: 2019-04-05 13:33:32 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Stewart, R title: Do evidence networks make a difference? ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B16 divisions: B14 divisions: J81 keywords: networks, evidence, Global Evidence Summit note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. 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’. date: 2018 date_type: published official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2018.1425734 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1631172 doi: 10.1080/19439342.2018.1425734 lyricists_name: Stewart, Ruth lyricists_id: RSTEW24 actors_name: Stewart, Ruth actors_id: RSTEW24 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Journal of Development Effectiveness volume: 10 number: 1 pagerange: 171-178 issn: 1943-9342 citation: Stewart, R; (2018) Do evidence networks make a difference? Journal of Development Effectiveness , 10 (1) pp. 171-178. 10.1080/19439342.2018.1425734 <https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2018.1425734>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10071687/1/DoEvidenceNetworksMakeADifference_JDeff.pdf