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.
Led by INASP, The VakaYiko Consortium worked with the parliaments of Ghana, Uganda and Zimbabwe to strengthen capacity for evidence use in decision making.
The VakaYiko Consortium awarded seven grants to universities, think tanks and civil society organizations in Africa, Latin America and Asia to implement specific innovative approaches to strengthen the capacity for evidence use in policy making.
INASP worked with five African library schools to strengthen postgraduate curricula and teaching in library and information science, in order to ensure that professional librarians are able to deliver high quality services to support research and teaching.
A pilot project, working with National Research and Education Networks– national providers of academic and research IT services, known as NRENs - to improve campus networks and to strengthen the ability of NRENs to provide on-going support and training.
INASP was contracted to advise on the development of survey tools, and to provide expert review and quality assurance to the final reports of an evaluation of DFID's online research portals and repositories.
The two-year TZAP project aimed to contribute to a knowledge-based society in Tanzania by increasing the quality of academic publishing through training, skills development and capacity building.
INASP co-facilitated a training workshop in Jordan on achieving policy impact, contributing to a key output for Westminster Foundation for Democracy’s MENA Policy Links programme: “Policy analysis that is evidence-based, accessible and focused on relevant issues... in the region"
This project aimed to help the Ugandan parliament find ways of improving its scrutiny of science & technology issues and to build up a body of knowledge which would guide other work in this area.
INASP was approached by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in December 2010 to provide research communication support to seven of the IDRC ACACIA programme’s research partners
The Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK) is a partnership-based e-learning initiative that aims to enable development practitioners to acquire skills, competences, behaviours and attitudes in knowledge sharing and information management.
A national-level, intensive, capacity development and training programme on online information access and use for health sector librarians, researchers and professionals within Vietnamese universities with health focused programmes and research activities.
INASP was contracted by the Norwegian Library Association to direct and organize the compilation of a three-year development plan for the National Library Service of Malawi.
INASP-Health promoted international networking amongst people involved in the provision and use of health information in developing and transitional countries.
INASP developed a practical workshop for Commonwealth scholars studying in the UK, to highlight the resources available to them when they return to their home institutions and encourage them to be champions for the work of their institutional libraries in enabling access.
In order to ensure the widest possible use of INASP’s open access training materials, they are included on the iTrainOnline website via the Multi-Media Training Kit (MMTK)
In order to increase access to and use of information by the public, INASP was asked to work with national and public library associations in Africa to enable the development of strategic and work plans, training and the research and publication of newsletters, reports and books.
