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.
Report of an event convened by INASP and the Inter-University Council for East Africa on 26 July 2023 to explore how artificial intelligence could address challenges facing academics and students in East African higher education.
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.
In 2018 and 2019, INASP and partners facilitated discussions about enabling gender equity in higher education in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda. This paper summarizes the key findings and recommendations from across those three meetings.
Between November and December 2017, the INASP Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) team conducted an evaluation of the “AuthorAID embedding” project
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 key and vulnerable populations. The output is shared here.
This report gives an overview of the first phase of the project “Strengthening Indigenous Academic and Digital Publishing In Tanzania”; the needs assessment and recommendations for training to be given.
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.
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.
This report reviews the Library and Information Science (LIS) Pilot Project in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia, suggests ways forward and outlines what worked, as well as what might be improved.
This report provides a short analysis of nine countries (Bangladesh, Pakistan, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda and Tanzania), at a national level, to assess their academic impact in the world.
This report presents the findings of research conducted by the Research Information Network (RIN) to explore and provide insights and understanding into the policy and financial commitments within the research sectors of Kenya, Malawi, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
This report presents the findings of a collaborative bibliometrics study conducted by the Cuban Ministry of Higher Education, the National Center for Scientific Research and INASP.
