AuthorAID embedding programme: an evaluation

In 2013 INASP’s AuthorAID project launched an embedded stream of work. This was an expansion of its approach to train researchers in research and proposal writing in the Global South. The institution-specific research and proposal writing embedding programme took place with a select number of partner institutions – both existing and new partners - in 10 institutions across four countries.

Between November and December 2017, the INASP Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) team conducted an evaluation of the “AuthorAID embedding” project. The purpose of the evaluation was to understand the factors that create a successful embedding programme – that is a programme introduced into an institution that subsequently becomes owned, contextualized as necessary, run, budgeted for and valued as important by the “recipient” institution.