Documents
The key documents produced for events and through planning processes can be found below in reverse chronological order.
- Open-data system touchpoints (October and November 2025)
- notes from the three touchpoints
- memo from the Funders executive that describes the next steps
- sample use cases
- slides about where we are with existing investments in an open-source solution (including, in the final slide, links to relevant documentation)
- existing and proposed capabilities (in non-technology language)
- topics that the planning group is working through from mid-January to mid-March
- Event in the UN’s Goals Lounge to kick off General Assembly high-level week 2025 (21 September 2025)
- statement about funding, foundational investments, and transitional arrangements
- UN press release
- recording of the hour-long event
- two-minute video that kicked off the session, drawing on inspiring images from the Cape Town Consensus Meeting and summarizing the key announcements
- additional statements released in support of the event
- Building a Global Evidence Synthesis Community (Campbell, Cochrane and JBI)
- ESIC-engaged equity-championing groups
- ESIC planning-process secretariat (a call to action published in the Cochrane Library)
- Global SDG Synthesis Coalition
- Jacobs Foundation and its education partners
- UK Research and Innovation
- Community-led planning process (January to June 2025)
- final reports and feedback summaries from steps 1-4, prepared by each of five working groups and one planning group as inputs to ESIC roadmap
- Demand-side engagement, as well as the group’s two-page summary report
- Data sharing and reusing, as well as the group’s two-page summary report
- Safe and responsible use of AI, as well as the group’s two-page summary report
- Methods and process innovation, as well as the group’s two-page summary report
- Capacity sharing, as well as the group’s two-page summary report
- Governance, as well as the group’s two-page summary report
- citizen call to action prepared as an input to the ESIC roadmap
- terms and frameworks used in preparing the ESIC roadmap
- ESIC roadmap – infographic, 11-page version, and full (56-page) version – from which the year-1 foundational investments were drawn and to which we will return when considering investments in future years
- Cape Town Consensus Charter, which was developed at the Cape Town consensus meeting from 24-26 June 2025 and then finalized on 14 August 2025
- translations of all of the above documents into Arabic, Chinese, French, Portuguese and Spanish
- equity companion to the ESIC roadmap, which was finalized on 19 September 2025
- theory of change – both a one-page diagram and an accompanying 17-page document – which was finalized on 24 September 2025
- final reports and feedback summaries from steps 1-4, prepared by each of five working groups and one planning group as inputs to ESIC roadmap
- Event convened as part of Action Day 2 in the Summit of the Future preceding General Assembly high-level week 2024 (21 September 2024 unless otherwise noted)
- recording of the event where ESIC was first announced
- intent-to-fund announcement – totalling £45 million (US$60 million) – by the Wellcome Trust
- open funding call for £11.5 million (US$15 million) by UK Research and Innovation (19 September 2024)
- Nature article about the two funding announcements, with a focus on “scientists… building giant ‘evidence banks’ to create policies that actually work”
- additional documents released in anticipation of the event
- Global Evidence Commission update 2024 (January 2024, available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish)
- ‘SHOW ME the evidence’ consensus (4 September 2024; available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish; and co-published in five leading journals on 14 November)
- NESTA/ U.K. Behavioural Insights Team report arguing for internatinal collaboration on evidence synthesis (9 September 2024)
- Nature editorial about the Global SDG Synthesis Coalition, a key partner in ESIC (17 September 2024)
- additional documents released in follow-up to the event