Global research, vital for economic and social progress, remains largely inaccessible due to costly paywalls and inequitable publishing models. South Africa’s 2025 G20 leadership presents an opportunity to champion transformative, inclusive reforms in research publishing.
This chapter focuses on the Parliament of Ghana showing how its role in the SDGs is intertwined with its engagement with key aspects of the national evidence system, as well as reflective of deeper structural aspects of Ghana’s political economy – in particular the relations.
This brief highlights the main elements of the capacity development system in Ghana’s Civil Service and identifies key existing issues affecting these elements.
14 case studies from around the world exploring teacher professional development programs that support, improve, and harness teaching capabilities and expertise.
In 2020 INASP helped Research4Life to learn more about our users' needs and challenges by carrying out an extensive survey and evaluation of users across multiple countries and institution types.
This learning brief summarises the experience of designing, conducting, and reflecting on a novel methodology for understanding the political economy of government agencies’ use of evidence.
This learning brief summarises insights from the analysis phase of the Strengthening Evidence Use for Development Impact (SEDI) programme, which was funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and implemented in Ghana, Pakistan, and Uganda.
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
A SIDRA policy brief based on the output of a knowledge exchange conference held in Puntland, Somalia in November 2016 to discuss gender in higher education.
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.
An overview of the Context Matters framework, developed by INASP and Politics & Ideas to detect and understand the critical entry points to promote the use of knowledge in public institutions.
This report draws out some of the key themes and ideas which emerged during a roundtable held in Kenya in 2016 which focused on the research and knowledge system in the Somali regions.
