The Global Advocacy Project (GAP) is part of the EOA Initiative supported by SSNC and SDC. The overall aim of the GAP project is to support increased food security, resilient production systems and better incomes for small (and medium) scale farmers in Africa while at the same time safeguarding the environment for the future. The project aims to stimulate and strengthen partner organizations in their capacity to catalyze change with respect to greater policy attention to EOA programs and investments, in order to enable the establishment of relevant legislation and regulations and to allocate resources to build capabilities in various key areas including extension, education, market development, entrepreneurship, applied research, information sharing and communication among others. This study recognizes that presenting concise evidential synthesis pragmatically to the real world of policymaking to minimize cognitive biases, deal with natural tendencies to resist change, to ensure political buy-in requires the partner organizations to see the world from the perspective of their target groups and understand the legislation and policy processes and structures in which they engage.