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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.