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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.
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.
The five steps are:
- Define the goal of the RCS project and pathways to change
- Use evidence to define the ‘optimal/benchmark’ capacity needed to achieve the goal
- Determine existing capacity (baseline study); identify gaps compared to optimal capacity
- Devise and implement an action plan to fill the gaps
- Adapt the plan and indicators regularly
For more guides, resources and videos from LSTM’s Centre for Capacity Research, including reports from the DELTAS Africa Learning Research Programme, click here
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