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Central Africa continues to face persistent development and governance challenges, including weak institutional capacity, limited policy implementation, fragile state structures, rising inequality, and gaps between policy design and real-world outcomes.

As Central African countries pursue the objectives of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the effectiveness of public policies increasingly depends not only on the availability of high-quality evidence, but also on the mechanisms through which evidence is absorbed, adopted, and implemented by decision-makers.

In line with its mission to promote evidence-based policymaking and accelerate structural transformation in Central Africa, the Nkafu Policy Institute of the Denis and Lenora Foretia Foundation is organizing the 2026 Central Africa Think Tank Forum. The Forum will provide a high-level platform to critically examine how research evidence can more effectively inform public policy and how institutional, political, and communication barriers to policy uptake can be addressed.

Held under the theme « From Evidence to Action: Strengthening Policy Uptake in Central Africa », the two-day Forum will convene policymakers, think tanks, civil society actors, development partners, researchers, and private sector representatives to explore practical strategies for bridging the gap between research and policy implementation across the region.