Engagement and communication activities for research uptake: Engagement with private and non-health organisations, NGOs, HIV programmes, research institutions, health ministries, regulatory authorities. Using journals, press, magazines, conferences/workshops, networks, face-to-face interaction, websites, consensus reports, policy briefs, newsletters. | |
Outputs | Outcomes |
Skills development program from public-private-academic partnerships. | Advocacy resulted in enhanced health RCS effort, or enhanced knowledge about neglected topic diseases (e.g., fish-borne zoonotic parasites). |
Systematic plan for acquiring and using research information, and for sharing and transferring knowledge. | |
Knowledge about focus of health RCS efforts – tend to be more on researchers and less on research users. | |
Media articles (i.e., press, magazines, reports, website). | Partnerships for research dialogue (e.g., with policymakers, research users, decision makers national authorities, professional groups, private sector, NGOs, civil society) at local, regional, and international levels. |
Communication/knowledge management strategy | |
Trends in website hits. | |
Activities to develop national health research systems or scientific councils: Promote financial sustainability in regional research activities. | |
Outputs | Outcomes |
Map of national research system. | Strong commitment and active engagement by national health research institutions and health ministries to review progress and determine research priorities. |
Knowledge about contribution (or not) of national agencies to development of effective national health research system and in creating demand for research. | |
External funds provided more accessibility and flexibility than local funds. | |
Networking activities for researchers and/or research users: Facilitation of collaborations and large-scale networks, sometimes through multi-disciplinary workshops, curricula, meetings, and seminars. | |
Outputs | Outcomes |
New programme and partnership for research to strengthen links between universities and policy making (e.g., systematic reviews for research). | Impact on policy, practice, and knowledge at different levels (i.e., international, regional, national, district level) and on health and non-health sectors, through research and policy networks. |
Project staff contributed to evaluations of health centres and systems and to motivating medical staff. | Estimated impact on disease control and prevention. |
Harmonised regional research activities. | |
North–South and South–South networking activities. | |
Active committees with institutional representation in each member country. | |
Commitment and communication with the Northern and among Southern partners. | Â |