AuthorAID is a pioneering global network that is free to access for researchers and provides support, mentoring, resources and training for researchers in low- and middle-income countries.

A pilot of the Context Matters Framework with the Secretariat for Public Administration of the Prime Minister’s office (SGP) and the Economic and Social Research Consortium (CIES) in Peru.

Context Matters Framework is a tool to help policymakers, researchers, practitioners and donors better define windows of opportunity in different contexts to focus efforts on promoting better interaction between knowledge and policy.

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

Publishers for Development (PfD) brings together stakeholders within the global research and publishing community to ensure that the needs of Southern partners are accounted for in Northern practices.

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.

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. 

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 supported a gender-mainstreaming process by undertaking sensitization and gender action planning work with CSIR female scientists, technologists and administrators.

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.

Led by INASP, The VakaYiko Consortium worked with the parliaments of Ghana, Uganda and Zimbabwe to strengthen capacity for evidence use in decision making.