Upcoming Events

1. Background
Every three months the EPRN organises a national policy dialogue in Rwanda. The overall aim of this specific policy dialogue is for Oxfam and EPRN to collaborate putting across key report findings and recommendations from the survey on the impact of COVID 19 on the horticulture value chain, to key stakeholders for action/implementation. The purpose of disseminating the Oxfam survey report is to influence recovery plans first, for Oxfam and secondly, for all actors including (...)

1. Background
The Economic Policy Research Network (EPRN Rwanda) is a Research and Training Institution registered with Rwanda Governance Board as a local Non-Government Organization with a mission to contribute to the evidence-based economic policymaking by providing high-quality research, building capacities and creating networking opportunities for local experts. One of the flagship activities of EPRN is to organize research conferences. So far, six conferences have been organized with (...)

The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) will convene a virtual Evidence Leaders Africa Conference on 3 - 4 November 2020. The conference is part of an ongoing initiative, the Evidence Leaders in Africa (ELA) project funded by the Hewlett Foundation. ELA seeks to expand and fortify Evidence Informed Decision Making (EIDM) leadership in Africa.
The ELA conference targets AAS Fellows, Affiliates, grantees and researchers undertaking (...)

1. Background
The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have had far-reaching consequences beyond the spread of the COVID-19 disease itself and efforts to quarantine it (Johnsen and al’ 2020). What was widely viewed as a ‘Chinese problem,’ and then an ‘Italian problem’ has become an ‘everybody problem.’ In most cases, Governments imposed severe social distancing policies, work, and school closures, and the like. This inevitably has led to almost immediate economic hardship, which then leads (...)