The aim of the Africa Impactful and Evidence-based Policies Prize is to acknowledge and celebrate the achievements of individuals, agencies, or institutions that have successfully formulated and implemented policies that have had a positive and measurable impact on African society. The prize seeks to highlight the importance of evidence-based policymaking and its potential to drive meaningful change.

Nominees for this Prize must:

• • Be born in or be a citizen of an African country engaged in the formulation or implementation of policies that directly impact African agriculture and food.

• • Have made an outstanding contribution through governance and policy-related interventions that have significantly impacted reducing hunger and poverty, improving nutritional security, increasing resilience to food system risks and shocks, improving opportunities for jobs and income generation, and improving environmental sustainability.