The UKCDR & ESSENCE equitable partnerships resource hub aims to support all those involved in the research process to embed practices which ensure equity in the design, delivery and dissemination of research
The hub brings together relevant tools, guidance and resources from global partners focused on ensuring equity in international research partnerships.
For more on UKCDR’s work on Equitable Partnerships click here.
Find out more about ESSENCE’s work on health research capacity strengthening here.
This Good Practice Document aims to support equity in research by assisting funders, research institutions and researchers to improve ways of working in multi-country research consortia and partnerships, particularly in LMIC contexts.
Live recording from UKCDR & ESSENCE's virtual session ‘The role of funders in enabling equitable research partnerships for development’ as part of the Science Summit at United Nations General Assembly 77 (UNGA77) on the 26th of September 2022.
This report by UKCDR (previously UKCDS) explores the role that funders play throughout the research lifecycle to select & build partnerships. Seven in-depth case studies exemplify the range of programmes & structures used.
This blog series, ‘Equitable Partnerships: Lessons from Practitioners’, explores the importance of equity, as well as its barriers and enablers. Each blog provides best practices and learning examples informed by their experience in the field.
This is a good practice document on research costing, and includes a review of the funding practices related to the definition and funding of direct and indirect costs.
Transboundary and intercultural research in partnership is challenging. This is particularly the case when cooperation takes place between rich and poor countries. This guide is based on 11 principles and 7 key questions.
The Global Code of Conduct for Research in Resource-Poor Settings, aims to achieve fair partnerships in research The code has been designed specifically to combat ‘ethics dumping' – the practice of exporting unethical research practices to lower-income settings.
This review on equitable and effective partnership-working in academic-humanitarian research collaborations examines the experiences of R2HC-funded research teams, within the wider discourse on research partnerships.
At the March 30-31 2006 meeting of the (OECD)/Development Assistance Committee (DAC) network on development evaluation, representatives of the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) presented their observations on the growing need to develop consensus principles and standards for the evaluation of Global and Regional Partnership Programs (GRPPs).
The Research Fairness Initiative is an organisational learning tool that encourages governments, business, organisations, research / academic institutions and funders to describe how they take measures to create trusting, lasting, transparent and effective partnerships in research and innovation – and how they plan to improve their practices moving forward.
This report provides a snapshot of international development research undertaken by UK HEIs in the REF2021 period (2013-2020). Based on the REF2021 definition of non-academic impact, it gives an overview of the types of impact research has in LMICs and globally and how this differs across disciplines and topics.
Live recording from UKCDR & ESSENCE's virtual session ‘The role of funders in enabling equitable research partnerships for development’ as part of the Science Summit at United Nations General Assembly 77 (UNGA77) on the 26th of September 2022.
This Good Practice Document aims to support equity in research by assisting funders, research institutions and researchers to improve ways of working in multi-country research consortia and partnerships, particularly in LMIC contexts.
This resource highlights how to make the most of collaborative research, to create successful partnerships which develop a joint vision, define individual activities and objectives, define a joint approach which brings benefits to each organisation, develop a joint work plan, jointly develop methodology and finalise a written agreement which reflects the outcome of this process.
Provides guidance for fairer research contract negotiation in collaborative research partnerships, to provide tools which place contracting knowledge and skills directly in the hands of institutions and government departments who have limited expertise in this area.
The main reason behind the preparation of this Guide is the lack of knowledge and data about the scope, nature and depth of UK-Africa partnerships in this area.
This resource from the Institutional Learning and Change Initiative highlights how to make the most of collaborative research
At the March 30-31 2006 meeting of the (OECD)/Development Assistance Committee (DAC) network on development evaluation, representatives of the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) presented their observations on the growing need to develop consensus principles and standards for the evaluation of Global and Regional Partnership Programs (GRPPs).
A toolkit towards an open science and innovation system that tackles the societal challenges of our world.
This brief presents the results of a study that examines how public private partnerships in agricultural research stimulate greater investment in pro-poor innovation in developing country agriculture.
This booklet about the challenges and predicaments of international scientific cooperation deals with the responsibility that researchers and administrators must assume to make potential conflicts clear in advance.
The guide links the underlying rationale for multi-stakeholder partnerships, with a clear four phase process model, a set of seven core principles, key ideas for facilitation and 60 participatory tools for analysis, planning and decision making.
INASP strategy highlights the importance of a more equitable knowledge system, exploring how the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted existing cracks in knowledge ecosystems at all level.
This resource was the result of discussions by the University of Wisconsin-Cooperative Extension which explored how to evaluate the work of coalitions and collaboratives.
This booklet is the fourth of a series of six notebooks in which research managers, based mainly in Africa and the Caribbean, share their unique insights on research partnerships, and provide practical guidance on the challenges they have faced in different aspects of their work.
This OECD report describes issues and options that deserve the attention of scientists and administrators in developed countries and in developing countries, as they seek to design, initiate and manage collaborative research programmes and projects that include both scientific and development goals
Common Cause Research spent two years looking in depth at the landscape of Black and Minority Ethnic community-university partnerships.
In this webinar, the Action Against Stunting hub, in partnership with UKRI and GCRF, explore how different hubs and institutions build, maintain, and evaluate equitable partnerships and help ensure that research outcomes are mutually beneficial.
This briefing summarises the key learnings relating to equitable partnerships that emerged from the ESPA programme in promoting research partnership to achieve development impact.
This policy briefing aims to present key findings from a recently completed review of internal research development processes and approaches to partnerships building at SOAS
Case Study of research programme between the government of the Netherlands and Ghana to support equitable research partnerships, led by Ghana which was demand driven and locally led.
This review on equitable and effective partnership-working in academic-humanitarian research collaborations examines the experiences of R2HC-funded research teams, within the wider discourse on research partnerships.
Twenty-eight case studies of ethics dumping by UCLan examined through inductive thematic analysis to reveal predisposing factors from the perspective of researchers from high-income regions.
The Elrha Guide to Constructing Effective Partnerships (2012) is a resource to support collaboration between humanitarian and academic organisations.
This Partnerships Agreement Template is a tool study teams can use to support decision-making and encourage transparency, clarity of intention and shared purpose among partners on a study team.
The Critical Resource seeks to offer some provocations and guidance to those either well practiced or starting out with new partnerships, to help promote the importance of reflexivity and honesty with one another in the context of effective, sustainable, and ethical international development related research.
This is a good practice document on research costing, and includes a review of the funding practices related to the definition and funding of direct and indirect costs.
This report summarises the key messages from a 2018 UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the KFPE joint workshop in Tanzania.
The Rethinking Research Collaborative (RRC) is an informal international network of academics, civil society organisations and social movements, international NGOs, and research support providers who are committed to working together to explore the politics of evidence and participation in knowledge for international development.
The BRIDGE guidelines for the conduct of fair global health epidemiology are targeted at stakeholders involved in the commissioning, conduct, appraisal and publication of global health research.
The Montreal Statement outlines general responsibilities, and responsibilities in managing the collaboration, in relationships within the collaboration, and for the outcomes of the research.
The BRIDGE guidelines for the conduct of fair global health epidemiology are targeted at stakeholders involved in the commissioning, conduct, appraisal and publication of global health research.
The Research Fairness Initiative is an organisational learning tool that encourages governments, business, organisations, research / academic institutions and funders to describe how they take measures to create trusting, lasting, transparent and effective partnerships in research and innovation – and how they plan to improve their practices moving forward.
The Global Code of Conduct for Research in Resource-Poor Settings, aims to achieve fair partnerships in research The code has been designed specifically to combat ‘ethics dumping' – the practice of exporting unethical research practices to lower-income settings.
Transboundary and intercultural research in partnership is challenging. This is particularly the case when cooperation takes place between rich and poor countries. This guide is based on 11 principles and 7 key questions.
Set of principles and best practice guidance on safeguarding to anticipate, mitigate and address potential and actual harms in the funding, design, delivery and dissemination of international development research.
This report by UKCDR (previously UKCDS) explores the role that funders play throughout the research lifecycle to select & build partnerships. Seven in-depth case studies exemplify the range of programmes & structures used.
At UKCDR, we know that research for development needs equitable partnerships. We also know that there are still lessons to learn as we move equitability in collaborative research from principles to practice, which will be explored in upcoming UKCDR and ESSENCE guidance. In the leadup to these guidelines, we’re excited to share our new blog series, ‘Equitable Partnerships: Lessons from Practitioners’. Each week, we’ll hear from International Development practitioners as they share their insights on the topic, providing best practice and learning examples informed by their experience in the field.
This blog series, ‘Equitable Partnerships: Lessons from Practitioners’, explores the importance of equity, as well as its barriers and enablers. Each blog provides best practices and learning examples informed by their experience in the field.
The final blog of our blog series.
Recap of UKCDR's event on global equitable research partnerships on 10 March 2022