The Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Research Programme (MLW) embarked on a journey to enhance its capacity for evidence-informed policymaking (EIP) under the East African Regional Evidence Synthesis Initiative (EARESI), which is part of the Africa LEEPS Partnership. This story showcases how MLW conducted an internal capacity-building workshop to strengthen its team in EIP to support the mapping of priority areas for SDGs 3 and 7 in Malawi.