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Engaging citizen-serving NGOs, citizen-led NGOs and citizen partners in a transformation in how we learn from others around the world: Co-designing ESIC (Session 3)

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This webinar series is hosted by the  (ESIC) for citizen-serving and citizen-led non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and for citizen leaders to share your insights in how we can better learn from others around the world. We hope that participants will be able to join all three sessions:

Webinar #1 - 24 April 9-10 a.m. EDT / 1-2 p.m. GMT

Webinar #2 - 21 May 11-12 p.m. EDT / 3-4 p.m. GMT

Webinar #3 - 19 June 9-10 a.m. EDT / 1-2 p.m. GMT

ESIC is looking in particular for citizens, and they explain below what is meant by this term. They may be involved in citizen-serving or citizen-led NGOs whose work promotes the use of evidence in everyday life (that is, helping people make informed decisions based on the best available research evidence). Or they may be working independently as leaders in their own right. These NGOs and citizen leaders may be working in any space, such as climate action, education and health.

The insights from these webinars will contribute to current conversations aimed at shaping the development of the ESIC roadmap to create a step-change improvement in how we learn from others around the world, and in particular for how we produce and use evidence synthesis, especially AI-enabled ‘living’ evidence synthesis. This is a document that will include citizen perspectives and be presented at a meeting being organized by ESIC in Cape Town (June 24-26, 2025). More context is provided in this . The ESIC roadmap will then be used by funders to allocate existing funding commitments as well as anticipated new ones.

Citizens include all of us as members of society. We use the term ‘citizen’ to keep the focus on the individual, and not to imply formal citizenship status as determined by a government. For example, we include undocumented individuals and we recognize that Indigenous peoples were sometimes forced to decline their Indigenous status to achieve citizenship of a country that now includes their traditional lands. Alternative terms like ‘public’ or ‘publics’ are often considered a group, not individuals. More specific terms are often sector-specific, such as consumers (consumer protection), parents (education), patients and caregivers (healthcare), people with lived experience (research), residents (housing), service users (child, community and social services), taxpayers (economic development and growth), voters (citizenship), and workers (employment).

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