Research Capacity Strengthening Hub

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Research Capacity Strengthening: lessons from UK-funded initiatives in low- and middle-income countries

This learning report is part of a UKCDR-led cross-funder review of UK-funded research capacity strengthening (RCS) programmes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). This report builds upon our 2021 briefing paper by collating learning from UK-funded RCS initiatives in LMICs, across disciplines, and providing recommendations for designing, implementing, and evaluating future funds and programmes.

8 August 2022

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UK ODA and Wellcome-funded research capacity strengthening in LMICs: Briefing paper

This briefing paper summarises UK-funded contributions to the research capacity strengthening landscape in low- and middle-income countries between 2016 and 2021, along with initial policy recommendations to UK funders.

7 October 2021

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ESSENCE Seven Principles for Strengthening Research Capacity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (2014)

This good practice document gives guidance on how capacity strengthening initiatives can generate the maximum possible benefit.

5 June 2019

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ESSENCE Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

This good practice document offers a common framework for funders of RCS, to make it easier for recipients of funding to fulfil the planning, monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) obligations of multiple funders

5 June 2019

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Funders’ priorities: Rapid mapping

This report by UKCDR provides a high-level overview of the complex research capacity strengthening landscape, revealing trends in funders’ RCS strategies.

27 August 2015

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Health Research Capacity Strengthening: A UKCDR Mapping

This report by UKCDR maps 300 health research capacity strengthening schemes in LMICS. It explores funders’ activities at the three levels of the innovation system: the individual, the institution, and the environment/ecosystem, and it investigates the geographical scope and breakdown of activities across thematic area (infectious disease, NCDs, etc.).

9 February 2015

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LSTM Centre for Capacity Research Guides: Lessons and Good Practice Examples

These two guides from LSTM draw on lessons and good practice examples from literature on the ‘science’ of RCS for Researchers and Implementers and Grant Makers

5 June 2019

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LSTM’s Centre for Capacity Research’s Five Step Approach to Research Capacity Strengthening

In this video, the head of the Centre for Capacity Research at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) gives an overview of the unit’s five step approach to achieving autonomous, self-sustaining, problem-solving institutions and systems

5 June 2019

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Wellcome Scoping Work on Research Management in LMICs – Africa and India

These two projects by Wellcome Trust review the current state of research management in Africa and India to assess the scope of past and current support by international funders.

5 June 2019

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Strengthening Research Systems: Concepts, Actions and Actors

This report reviews frameworks for strengthening research systems, gives examples of policies to improve RCS systems, and analyses the landscape of organisations engaged in research management or RCS in sub-Saharan Africa.

5 June 2019

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Case Studies of the Political Economy of Science Granting Councils in Sub-Saharan Africa

This report summarises findings from case studies in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Senegal, mapping international donors and initiatives across Sub-Saharan Africa that are supporting scientific research and training, within the broader context of increasing investments in science, technology and innovation.

5 June 2019

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Health Research Capacity Development in Low and Middle-Income Countries: Reality or Rhetoric?

This paper undertakes a systematic review of academic and grey literature to identify trends in and approaches to health research capacity development.

5 June 2019

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Money & Microbes: Strengthening Research Capacity to Prevent Epidemics

From the International Vaccines Task Force, this report develops a framework (for action by countries, development partners, research funders, research organisations and the private sector) for financing clinical research and trial capacity strengthening in low and middle-income countries.

5 June 2019

Opinion or commentary

Research capacity building—obligations for global health partners

This commentary paper from The Lancet Global Health defines a prescription for change in the approach of global health partners to research capacity building.

6 June 2019

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A Framework and Indicators to Improve Research Capacity Strengthening Evaluation Practice

This project, funded by the Department for International Development’s Strategic Evaluation Fund, aims to develop guidance on improving research capacity strengthening evaluation, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa

18 July 2019