Evidence-informed decision making
Encouraging institutions to use reliable syntheses when designing policies, programmes, guidance, and practice recommendations.
Research use and public benefit
Advocacy
ESI advocates for the responsible use of evidence synthesis in policy and practice, helping organisations communicate why rigorous summaries of research matter.
Evidence in decision spaces
Advocacy helps connect rigorous synthesis with the people and institutions making decisions.
Introduction
Promoting evidence synthesis for policy and practice.
Evidence synthesis can help decision makers understand what is known, where uncertainty remains, and how existing research can be interpreted transparently. Advocacy supports wider recognition of this value across institutions, sectors, and regions.
ESI encourages clear communication about the role of synthesis in evidence-informed decisions, including its relevance to human health, conservation, education, veterinary medicine, public policy, and other fields of public interest.
Why advocacy matters
Reliable evidence needs a stronger voice.
Many organisations and decision makers face complex questions, large bodies of research, and limited time to interpret individual studies. Evidence synthesis provides structured approaches for bringing research together, but its value is not always understood or embedded in decision-making processes.
Advocacy helps explain when synthesis is needed, how it can improve transparency, and why formal methods matter. It also supports stronger links between synthesis producers, evidence users, educators, funders, and public institutions.
Advocacy focus areas
Building understanding, demand, and responsible use.
ESI supports advocacy that strengthens the role of evidence synthesis across decision systems, professional communities, and public conversations.
Policy engagement
Supporting clearer dialogue between evidence producers and decision makers so research questions, timelines, and outputs are more useful.
Global collaboration
Connecting organisations across countries and sectors to share advocacy messages, practical lessons, and collective priorities.
Public understanding
Helping wider audiences understand how evidence synthesis differs from individual studies and why transparent methods are important.
Cross-sector research use
Promoting synthesis across human health, conservation, education, veterinary medicine, public policy, and other knowledge-intensive fields.
Resource sharing
Supporting shared language, examples, briefing materials, and communication resources that help organisations advocate more effectively.
Partner organisations
Advocacy is stronger when organisations work together.
ESI is relevant to organisations that produce, support, fund, teach, publish, or use evidence syntheses and want to strengthen their role in research-informed decisions.
Synthesis producers
Review groups, evidence centres, and research teams communicating the value of rigorous synthesis.
Policy and practice bodies
Organisations seeking better ways to use synthesised research in guidance, strategy, and programmes.
Training and methods communities
Educators and methodologists helping others understand standards, transparency, and evidence use.
Infrastructure groups
Platforms, publishers, funders, and networks supporting access to reliable evidence resources.
Public-interest organisations
Groups working to improve decisions in health, environment, education, welfare, and society.
International collaborators
Cross-border partnerships building shared messages around evidence synthesis and research impact.
Work with ESI
Help strengthen the voice for evidence synthesis.
Organisations interested in advocacy, policy engagement, public understanding, or cross-sector evidence use are invited to connect with Evidence Synthesis International.