Table 4.

Profile and characteristics of publications reporting the processes that promoted evidence-to-policy process in health intervention in Lusophone countries of West Africa

Country	Author/year of publication	Health policy focus	Key policy components assessed	Findings/evidence generated	Implication for evidence-to-policy process
Cape Verde	Nabyonga-Orem et al., 201616	Health policy dialog	Policy dialog operational process, for interactive and evidence sharing	Ensuring stakeholder participation, improving stakeholder harmonization and alignment, and improved evidence-to-policy process	Policy dialogue offers the opportunity to improve stakeholder participation in policy development and promote effectiveness of foreign aid
	Dovlo et al., 201617	Policy dialogs	Participation in the policy dialogs	Dialog success factors: the use of innovative approaches, good facilitation, and good communication	Policy dialog is an effective tool in health sector management and could be a crucial component of the governance dynamics of the sector
Guinea Bissau	Kok et al., 201226	HRS	Assessment of how the HRS emerged and evolved and how the system functions	The volatile and resource-dependent context, changes in donor policies, training of local researchers, and nature of the research findings influenced HRS	If research is to contribute to local decision-making, it is essential to link research to decision-making processes
	Tyrrell et al., 201027	HRH	Practice of costing exercises and HRH costing methodologies	Costing exercises represented an important driver of the HRDP	Bottom-up and country-specific costing methodologies have the potential to serve adequately the multifaceted purpose of the HRDP

HRH: Human resources for health, HRDP: Human Resources Development Plans, HRS: Health research systems