Strong and Equitable Research and Knowledge Systems in the Global South (SERKS) is working to strengthen research and knowledge systems and address the challenges of inequity within and between research and knowledge systems.

Transforming Employability for Social Change in East Africa (TESCEA) will help young people in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to use their skills and ideas to tackle social and economic problems.

AQHEd-SL project will bring together HE institutions across Sierra Leone to work together to enhance the quality of HE service delivery, leading to improved management and implementation of outcome based education, and the establishment of a National Qualifications Framework.

The Journals Online project aimed to increase the visibility, accessibility and quality of peer-reviewed journals in developing countries so that research outputs produced in these countries can be found, shared and used more effectively.

Since 2016 INASP has partnered with the Somali Institute for Development and Research Analysis (SIDRA) to explore and address gender issues in research and higher education and the role of women in research in Puntland.

INASP is contributing to the refinement of peer learning approaches within the Effective Institutions Platform.

Providing training to women researchers offers a unique opportunity to support them to better navigate the publishing process, and to build peer networks which can provide ongoing support and motivation.

Recognizing that sustainable skills development must be owned and driven by local universities and research institutions, the AuthorAID project supported 10 universities and research institutions in Africa and Asia to establish research-writing skills training.

INASP worked with national library consortia and equivalent bodies to build quality training programmes to enable librarians to manage access to information and support researchers.

INASP worked with national library consortia and equivalent bodies to strengthen the organisational effectiveness of library consortia,  to enable them to play stronger roles nationally, and to represent national needs in relationships with publishers and other suppliers. 

In 2013, INASP launched a pilot project with partners in Sierra Leone to explore what could be done to strengthen the foundations for research and higher education in the country.

From 2013-2018 the Strengthening Research and Knowledge Systems (SRKS) programme worked at the individual, institutional and national levels to strengthen research and knowledge systems.

INASP was commissioned by the Evidence for HIV Prevention in Southern Africa (EHPSA) research programme to investigate demand for evidence use in HIV prevention policy for three vulnerable populations.

SPARKS enabled INASP and ACEPA to extend parliamentary learning exchange activities between the parliaments of Ghana, Uganda and Zimbabwe, to include Malawi and Kenya. The project used peer learning techniques inspired by the EIP's P2P Learning Guide.

The INASP/UNESCO grant collaboration encouraged partner and network countries to use Open Access Week to raise awareness of Open Access within the Global South, and showcase activities of universities and research institutions within developing and emerging countries.

INASP’s AuthorAID project awarded 22 grants to support researchers to present gendered research at conferences or organize a gender workshop in their own institution.

The VakaYiko project aimed to strengthen the use of evidence in policy making by building capacity at individual, institutional and environmental level, and in doing so to explore which approaches were most effective in different environments and meet different evidence needs.

The VakaYiko Consortium worked with partners in Ghana to develop and pilot a training course for civil servants on Evidence-Informed Policy Making (EIPM). Building on the experience and leaning from the Ghana courses, INASP developed an Evidence-Informed Policy Making Toolkit.

The VakaYiko Consortium worked with partners in Ghana, Kenya, Peru and Zimbabwe to develop public engagement events - Policy Dialogues and Knowledge Cafes - in order to strengthen networks and communication channels with actors across the research-to-policy system.

The VakaYiko project aimed to develop approaches to organizational level capacity-building through its work with the Department for Environmental Affairs (DEA) in South Africa.