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Table 6 Recommendations based on overarching findings from interview data and document review

From: Evaluating official development assistance-funded granting mechanisms for global health and development research that is initiated in high-income countries

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