Evidence Informed Decision Making

This influences the way aid practitioners see and know educational needs and priorities and shapes decisions about who is in and who is out of aid entitlements. As such, evidence-informed decision making, although it is believed to ensure rationality and accountability, can also serve to downplay, marginalise and exclude certain groups from opportunities and agendas, and even symbolise their marginality and exclusion as legitimate. It is neither random, equitable nor necessarily scientifically rational; rather, it is inherently