Tackling the tensions in evaluating capacity strengthening for health research in low- and middle-income countries.

ABSTRACT: Strengthening research capacity in low- and middle-income countries is one of the most effective ways of advancing their health and development but the complexity and heterogeneity of health research capacity strengthening (RCS) initiatives means it is difficult to evaluate their effectiveness. Our study aimed to enhance understanding about these difficulties and to make recommendations about how to make health RCS evaluations more effective. Through discussions and surveys of health RCS funders, including the ESSENCE on Health Research initiative, we identified themes that were important to health RCS funders and used these to guide a systematic analysis of their evaluation reports. Eighteen reports, produced between 2000 and 2013, representing 12 evaluations, were purposefully selected f

SUBMITTER: Bates I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4353897 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature