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Table 2 Participants’ response on individual capacity needs for support of the use of evidence in policymaking relevant to maternal, newborn and child health

From: Improving maternal and child health policymaking processes in Nigeria: an assessment of policymakers’ needs, barriers and facilitators of evidence-informed policymaking

Aptitudes

Skills

Sources of evidence

Forms of evidence

(1) Capacity building such as training, internship to train younger officers, provision of necessary equipment to work with, etc.

(2) Incentives such as reward, promotion

(3) Networking through information sharing

(4) Intersectoral and intrasectoral coordination

(5) Create an enabling environment that supports the use of evidence in the workplace

(6) Ability to generate high level evidence from randomised controlled trials, intervention research and systematic reviews

(7) Ability to identify relevant policy areas/gaps for research

(1) Information communication technology skills

(2) Information gathering, data analysis and interpretation

(3) Communication skills-written and verbal

(4) Scientific writing and communication

(5) Research methodology

(6) Advocacy skills

(7) Individual capacity to know the types of evidence, sources of evidence and level of evidence

(8) Capacity identify research evidence (extract, synthesise and present research evidence)

(9) Skills of critical literature review, understanding basic statistics

(1) Publications –journals, surveys, books (2) Library – hard and soft copies

(3) Internet/electronic resources for articles and journals

(4) Dissemination forums for research findings

(5) Development of local database of research

(1) Hardcopies – summaries/abstract and prose report

(2) Newsletters and videos

(3) Success stories and testimonials

(4) Policy briefs/leaflets

(5) Scientific meeting and publications from conference proceedings

(6) Knowledge sharing and feedback mechanisms