Table 2 Guidance and management documents for research activities within the Ministries of Health of the ECOWAS member states, 2012
(No of countries | |
|---|---|
out of fourteen) | |
Existence of political and strategic documents | |
Existence of a national health policy | 12 |
Existence of a strategic plan for health development | 12 |
Is research taken into account in the policy documents and strategic plans | 13 |
Existence of any policy and strategic documents for research development | 8 |
Existence of any document on research priorities | 7 |
Ethics Committee on Research for Health | |
Existence of a National Ethics Committee on Research | 12 |
Is the National Ethics Committee on health research functional | 12 |
Were members of the National Ethics Committee on health research trained | 8 |
Existence of any ethics training framework (workshops, courses, etc.) in the country | 7 |
Mobilization of funds | |
Existence of a budget line for the financing of research | 5 |
Existence of any document on resource mobilization for research | 0 |
Is there a national approach to the implementation of the recommendations of the commitment made by the Health Ministers to allocate 2% of the national health budget and 5% of health projects and programs to research | 5 |
Coordination | |
Existence of a research coordinating structure within the MoH | 8 |
Existence of a consultation framework for stakeholders in health research | 6 |
Monitoring and Evaluation | |
Existence of mechanism to synthesize and share research results in the country | 6 |
Existence of a structure that summarizes research findings for policy making | 4 |
Existence of monitoring and evaluation mechanisms for health research | 3 |
Existence of indicators for the monitoring and evaluation in use for health research in the country | 3 |
Existence of program on information management for health research in your country | 2 |
Existence of any monitoring and evaluation reports | 2 |
Capacity Building | |
Existence of training grants for researchers | 2 |
Existence of short-term/postgraduate courses in the country for researchers | 3 |
Existence of any operational research course for the staff in the MoH | 5 |
Existence of any course on ethics in the country | 7 |