In November 2014, Development Initiatives was commissioned by DFID to conduct a mapping and political economy study on the production and utilisation of humanitarian evidence in Kenya, Uganda and within relevant East African institutions. Based on interviews, literature sampling and financial analysis, this report presents a summary of a year’s work. It describes the humanitarian research landscape and which factors affect the production and uptake of research outputs. It makes recommendations for linkages that can be strengthened and for interventions that would strengthen national and regional research capacity on both the user and producer side.
