It is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which someone or something causes people to become aware of or recognize a need they have. Example: His powerful speech managed to evoke the need to make a change in the community.
The world and all that punctuates it are sufficient excitement to evoke the need to express it.
Seasonal (Rabi, Kharif and Zaid crop seasons) and annual water budget of Semra watershed and Semrakalwana village evoke the need of conservation structures such as check dams, farm ponds, percolation tank, vegetative barrier, etc. to reduce monsoon runoff and conserve it for basin requirements for winter and summer period.
Alternatively, the change of domicile and exposure to a new cultural environment may evoke the need for information as a means of orientation.
The remarkable relevance to world health and disease control and the need to understand the metabolic function of the organism all evoke the need of a genome-scale metabolic model.
It was a rather glum end to François Hollande's first 100 days as president.At the centre of the government's responses to both issues is Manuel Valls, the interior minister, who has evoked the need for fermeté (firmness) in dealing with social problems.
Scanning large areas with a focused beam usually evokes the need of automatic control elements to adjust the laser spot to the designated position at the surface.
This pattern evokes the need for cross-border governance, and planning with an eco-regional perspective that considers both EU and non-EU countries.
Complexity in transport networks evokes the need for instant response to the changing dynamics and uncertainties in the upstream operations, where multiple modes of transport are often available, but rarely used in conjunction.
Women in each region evoked the need for more training for the volunteers and for new and improved training materials.
As a possible source of confusion, propagation failure has previously also been referred to as "pinning of waves" (Fáth 1998), thus evoking the need to emphasize its clear distinction from "wave-pinning" as defined in Mori et al. (2008).
