Publications

INASP and Politics & Ideas’ Context Matters Framework was used to analyse factors affecting use of evidence in Ghana's Environmental Protection Agency, identify areas for improvement, and develop a plan for change.

Between November and December 2017, the INASP Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) team conducted an evaluation of the “AuthorAID embedding” project

Bringing together people, activities and learning to explore work in Sierra Leone and the Somali regions

Stronger teams and strategic focus help African library consortia plan for long-term sustainability

Strengthening institutional-level use of evidence in decision making

This article looks at how INASP has developed an online embedding approach through AuthorAID in Tanzania, Ghana, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.

This document provides a rapid review of the relevant literature on the research and knowledge system in Sierra Leone, and looks at the research landscape, higher education system and the extent of use of research in policy making.

This case study reports on the impact of evidence-informed policy making training developed through the VakaYiko project and the impact of this training on the Research, Statistics and Information Management Directorate of Ghana’s Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations.

This article discusses the three-year pilot project that INASP launched in Sierra Leone in 2013 to improve access to, and awareness and use of, research literature.

A briefing paper to inform a consultation to identify ways to strengthen research communication in Ghana.

This review exercise aims to build an understanding of how parliamentarians in Ghana obtain information to make decisions.

This report reflects upon and documents the ways in which the VakaYiko consortium has sought to establish and maintain engagement with government institutions at different levels in Ghana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

A discussion about improving research access and communication in Sierra Leone, with a focus on a pilot project which is exploring ways of increasing awareness of the online research literature available and enabling researchers to make better use of it in their work.

This strategy seeks to define the scope and approach of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of VakaYiko EIPM training courses in Ghana and Zimbabwe.

This review was conducted by The Ghana Information Network for Knowledge Sharing (GINKS), as part of the VakaYiko consortium to gain insight into the Ghana Civil Service Training Centre (CSTC).

This report presents findings from a bibliometric analysis of the 26 most productive African countries in Scopus between 1996-2009.

This is the report of the external evaluation carried out by ITAD of the second phase of the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI).

This case study looks at different library consortia cost sharing models that are employed by INASP's partner countries.

A case study about developing a network of information literacy experts.

This report evaluates the success of the African Journals Online Publishing Programme (AJOPP) which was intended to support 11 African journals in putting their full text content online using a variety of hosts.