The need to tackle the discrepancy between research outputs and the execution of the findings into real practice is a crucial factor in establishing evidence-based practice in a selected government agency. There is a need to increase the number of experts in our education sector who can synthesise, translate, and package the evidence for ready use by decision-makers and to foster entrepreneurship in Africa. To achieve this, the activities of a 28-man Evidence Leaders in Africa (ELA) team were recruited to drive the project through capacity building training and workshop sessions. Thereafter, a non-random purposive sampling technique targeted at policy makers at various government and non-governmental organizations was adopted as the study design. In all, purposive administration of 424 copies of questionnaire to individuals in different governmental and non-governmental organizations was done by the recruited personnel. The retrieved data from the questionnaire were analyzed using standard statistical method. Socio-demographic characteristics of respondents reveal 34% representation of (31 -40 years) age bracket, with (57%) of them working in the University spanning over 2 to 5years (47%) work experience. Approximately 64% of the respondents are not aware of EIDM while 71% had no understanding of EIDM. As regards knowledge of EIDM, 36% had no knowledge of EIDM, 29% had moderate knowledge, 34% were beginners while approximately 1% had advanced knowledge of EIDM. Also, approximately 99% of the respondents have neither been trained nor involved in training others in EIDM. It was also observed that 8.5% of the respondents were policy-makers in the organization, yet 90.7% of the respondents agree that EIDM is useful in policy-making while 81.3% of the respondents engage their colleagues in EIDM. From this study, it is safe to infer that institutionalizing EIDM in NNMDA has numerous benefits as shown by the findings of this study. This will only be possible when all parties involved in producing and using research evidence are well informed and knowledgeable in EIDM.

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在尼日利亚选定的政府机构中将基于证据的做法制度化

解决研究成果与将结果落实到实际实践之间的差异是在选定的政府机构中建立基于证据的实践的关键因素。需要增加我们教育部门中能够综合，翻译和打包证据以供决策者随时使用并促进非洲企业家精神的专家人数。为了实现这一目标，招募了一个由28人组成的非洲证据领导者（ELA）团队，以通过能力建设培训和研讨会会议推动该项目。此后，针对设计对象是各种政府和非政府组织的决策者的非随机目的抽样技术。在所有，招募人员对不同政府和非政府组织的个人有针对性地管理了424份问卷。使用标准统计方法分析从调查表中检索到的数据。受访者的社会人口统计学特征表明，（31 -40岁）年龄段的代表为34％，其中（57％）在大学工作的时间超过2至5年（47％）。大约64％的受访者不了解EIDM，而71％的受访者不了解EIDM。关于EIDM的知识，有36％的人没有EIDM的知识，有29％的人有中度的知识，34％是初学者，而大约1％的人有EIDM的高级知识。此外，大约99％的受访者没有接受过EIDM的培训，也没有参与培训其他人。还观察到8。5％的受访者是组织中的决策者，但90.7％的受访者同意EIDM在决策中很有用，而81.3％的受访者则让其同事参与EIDM。从这项研究中可以得出结论，如本研究结果所示，在NNMDA中将EIDM制度化具有许多好处。只有在参与生成和使用研究证据的所有各方都对EIDM有充分了解和知识的情况下，这才有可能。