Frameworks for evaluating health research capacity strengthening: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health research capacity strengthening (RCS) projects are often complex and hard to evaluate. In order to inform health RCS evaluation efforts, we aimed to describe and compare key characteristics of existing health RCS evaluation frameworks: their process of development, purpose, target users, structure, content and coverage of important evaluation issues. A secondary objective was to explore what use had been made of the ESSENCE framework, which attempts to address one such issue: harmonising the evaluation requirements of different funders.

Methods

We identified and analysed health RCS evaluation frameworks published by seven funding agencies between 2004 and 2012, using a mixed methods approach involving structured qualitative analyses of documents, a stakehol

SUBMITTER: Boyd A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3878679 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature