Sectoral & regional hubs

ESN-CA will soon be able to leverage the work of ESIC’s 11 sectoral evidence-synthesis hubs, which will act as its evidence surveillance and synthesis ‘engine:’

  1. climate solutions
  2. crime and justice
  3. economic growth
  4. education
  5. environmental management
  6. food systems
  7. health, which we return to below
  8. humanitarian assistance
  9. peace and effective institutions
  10. social protection
  11. sustainable-development ‘accelerators.’

Six of the 11 sectoral hubs (1, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10) are expected to bring a health determinants and/or outcomes lens to their work. The ESIC website provides additional details about the sectoral hubs, including their capabilities.

We hope to make global contributions by contributing to three of the six initial spokes in the hub-and-spoke model being used by the health hub (spokes 2, 5 and 6):

  1. antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
  2. health and social care
  3. immunizations
  4. mental health
  5. pandemics and other health emergencies
  6. prevention.

More spokes will be added in future.

ESN-CA also hopes to learn from the three regional evidence-intermediary hubs acting as key parts of its demand-side engagement and contextualization ‘engine:’

  1. Africa
  2. Europe, with plans to eventually cover Central Asia
  3. Latin America and the Caribbean.

Two additional regional hubs – Asia Pacific and Middle East (or Arab States) are expected to be created in the coming year. The ESIC website provides additional details about the regional hubs, including their capabilities.

Both types of hubs will be involved in producing four types of outputs, with:

  • sectoral hubs playing a lead role in the creation of the two types of global public goods, namely living evidence maps and policy-scale living evidence syntheses
  • regional hubs playing a lead role in creating decision-relevant evidence products
  • both types of hubs playing a role in creating interoperable data.

ESN-CA also hopes to benefit from the additional parts of ESIC’s demand-side engagement and contextualization ‘engine’ including:

  • United Nations (UN) entities, multilateral development banks, and bilateral, particularly their evaluation offices, via their involvement in the Global SDG Synthesis Coalition
  • UN science advisors, via the UN Secretary-General Scientific Advisory Board
  • World Health Organization (WHO), including via its norms and standards
  • sector-specific demand-side mechanisms.