Evaluating the Quality of Research Partnerships

With this project, the GRP-Alliance developped an approaches on how funding organisations can easily and meaningfully evaluate the quality of the research partnerships they fund. We developped a set of practical recommendations for donors for evaluating the quality of North-South research partnerships. Precisely, the project developped recommendations for (a) methods for evaluation settings and (b) evaluation criteria, and will provide (c) examples of stumbling blocks, traps, and promising pathways in North-South research partnerships. These evaluation methods and criteria are applicable in the phase of project proposal submission and interviews (ex-ante), as well as for mid-term reviews and final project reviews (ex-post). For the development of these recommendations, the project was in close communication with Swiss research funders, in order to know and include their needs as well as for awareness raising and results sharing. Finally, the project also made recommendations for revisions of the KFPE principles.

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