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Learning for Consortia: Lessons from the UK AID Connect Funding Mechanism
In 2022 The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) finally agreed to publish the review of their UK AID Connect funding mechanism. This expert review was conducted by the academic board of the Learning from Consortia programme led by BOND, which was funded through UK Aid Connect to support the 14 multi-stakeholder consortia and…
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Communication Problems Addressed from the Bottom-up
Dr Angela Crack (University of Portsmouth) and Dr Michael Chasukwa (University of Malawi) Ask aid-workers whether they encounter problems with translation in their day-to-day job, and they are likely to roll their eyes in frustration before they regale you with anecdotes about awful situations that could have easily been prevented if the right language support…
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What did ODA ever do for us? Strategic shifts behind the devastating cuts to ODA-funded research in the UK
By Jude Fransman The £120 million shortfall suddenly facing UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding schemes such as the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and the Newton Fund, while undoubtedly devastating, is a relatively small causality against the predicted impact of the reduction of the UK’s aid budget from 0.7% to 0.5% of GNI on humanitarian and international development…
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Why we need to stop talking about partnerships…
… and start thinking about collaborative ecosystems. In this new article by the Rethinking Research Collaborative, published open access in the Canadian Journal of Development Studies we draw on complexity theory and systems thinking to re-think our 8 Principles for Fair and Equitable Research Collaboration and propose a reconceptualisation of research collaboration that is better…
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Equitable collaboration? Reflections on developing a research proposal
Karen Brock (Research Communication Adviser, Christian Aid) When development aid is used to fund research, that research must have impact beyond publishing findings or recommendations in a journal article, with the expectation that they will be acted upon. In the international development sector, focusing on impact has often been translated as an emphasis on collaborative research…
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Towards a rights-based approach to research partnerships: How Northern universities and NGOs can partner with Southern organisations?
Pradeep Narayanan (PRAXIS Institute for Participatory Practices) It is important to start by acknowledging that Northern development NGOs have successfully travelled the journey from a ‘service delivery approach’ to ‘rights-based approach’in developing countries, and have set models for both funding and implementing programmes in this domain. From the context of India, I can even point…
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Rethinking Impact, Collaboration and Capacity in ODA-funded research
By Jude Fransman – 11th June 2019 In light of the UK’s significant investment of Official Development Assistance (ODA) into Higher Education through the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and recent accusations of tied aid, for example in the review of the Newton Fund by the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) there is an…
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Joining the RRC
Since our launch we have been inundated with requests to join the collaborative and have received information about numerous initiatives aimed at understanding and improving research collaboration or knowledge mobilisation in different areas of research, policy and practice; different types of institution; and different countries around the world. We have added links to many of…
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Rethinking collaboration for global challenge research means rethinking research systems as well as partnerships
Rethinking collaboration for global challenge research means rethinking research systems as well as partnerships by Jude Fransman The launch of the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) by the UK government in 2015 marked an unprecedented £1.5 billion investment of the UK’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) commitment into research. Since then, the fund has come under…
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Research Report and Learning Resources: Promoting fair and equitable research partnerships to respond to global challenges
DOWNLOAD OUR RESEARCH REPORT AND LEARNING RESOURCES Working in partnership is increasingly encouraged in the international development research sector. Initiatives such as the UK’s Global Challenges Research Fund and the Newton Fund promote ‘fair and equitable partnerships’ between different stakeholders but recognize the challenges this involves. A new report and learning resources offer fresh insights into…
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