1. Consider ODA-funded global health and development research programmes as a tool to strengthen the knowledge base, and collaborative capacity, in this field |
2. Focus on addressing local research priorities and strengthening absorptive capacity |
3. Ensure that research oriented towards GPGs addresses the development or adaptation of technologies that are appropriate, acceptable, affordable and based on needs in developing-country contexts |
4. Build in coherent strategies and monitoring and evaluation mechanisms to maximize and clarify ODA-relevant outcomes |
5. Make equitable partnerships part of the programme structure and add supplementary provisions at the call and project levels that make partnerships even more equitable |
6. Clarify when capacity-building is an explicit goal of ODA-funded research programmes and include specific provisions for this purpose |
7. Ensure opportunities for engagement between researchers, policy-makers and development actors to deepen the evidence base for development activities |
8. Consider leveraging the expertise of existing research funders in ODA donor and recipient countries to deliver ODA-funded research programmes |