The research context
The 2025 brief synthesised in-depth case studies on farmer–herder conflicts and food systems, drawn from field research conducted between 2023 and 2025. It was peer reviewed (including by a reviewer from the UN DPPOA Mediation Support Unit).
How Evidano fit the workflow
How AI assistance fit alongside the researchers, not in place of them.
- 1Three in-depth country reports
Field studies from Sudan, Nigeria and Mali provided the source material.
- 2Evidano summarised key points
Evidano distilled key points across the three reports as a building block.
- 3Authors wrote and synthesised
Named researchers authored, interpreted and structured the final brief.
- 4Peer reviewed and published with disclosure
AI use was stated openly in the publication, with a DOI on record.
“Evidano (previously AILYZE) was used to produce policy brief from the three country reports.”
AI use can be disclosed in a publication — a defensible, auditable record rather than a hidden step.
In this brief Evidano supported synthesis while researchers kept authorship and judgement.
Multi-country interviews and focus groups are exactly the kind of qualitative data this kind of tool helps structure.
AI-assisted qualitative work is showing up in funded, peer-reviewed outputs. An early-mover workflow advantage.
About Evidano (previously AILYZE)
Evidano is AI-assisted qualitative data analysis software for interviews, focus groups, open-ended survey responses, and documents. It supports AI-assisted thematic analysis with your own or an AI-suggested codebook, transcription and translation in 100+ languages, clickable quotes and citations, and exportable visual reports. End-to-end encryption, no third-party data sharing, and your data is not used to train AI. From USD 50/month for unlimited analysis.
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Related published evidence
Researcher interviews and published citations covering comparable studies.
- Published research2025
A UNESCO evaluation used Evidano to analyze its reports.
A UN evaluation office used Evidano to scan reports and apply its own coding schema, with researchers reviewing throughout.
230 museum-related records refined with Evidano
Evaluation of UNESCO’s Museums Programme, IOS Evaluation Office
- Published research2025
A United Nations World Food Programme evaluation analyzed its qualitative data with Evidano
A published United Nations World Food Programme evaluation disclosed Evidano (previously AILYZE) in its data analysis methods.
47 Key informant interviews
United Nations World Food Programme decentralized evaluation
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Researcher interviews, the wording authors published when citing Evidano, and accuracy comparisons against manual coding.
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Research spotlights: researchers in their own words
Interviews with researchers at leading universities and institutes about how they actually used Evidano in work they went on to publish.
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How Evidano was used, in published methods sections
Verbatim excerpts from 20 published studies describing what Evidano did in their analysis — as a thought partner, a second coder, for initial coding, or for synthesis.
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Methodology guides and research writing
Practical guides to qualitative methods — thematic analysis, grounded theory, evidence synthesis and more — alongside the wider Evidano article library.
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Human vs AI: validated accuracy benchmarks
Three head-to-head comparisons against expert human analysis — 371 interview transcripts with Arizona State and Penn State, 298 evaluation reports for a UN evaluation group, and UNICEF’s manual-coding review.