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 document is a general strategy for policy dialogues and knowledge cafes to help guide the planning process and preparation of these events as well as the communication with partner ministries, carried out as part of the VakaYiko programme.
This assessment seeks to understand the needs that members of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MIC) in Zimbabwe have in terms of accessing research information, and evaluating and using it.
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 explores the definition and political value of evidence-informed policy making (EIPM) within the context of local government in Philippines.
This reflective paper explores the reasons why there is relatively little research examining actual capacity to access, evaluate and use research evidence as a basis of deciding what skills need to be supported, and suggests methodologies that can be used to assess capacity gaps.
This report reviews the main objectives of the training and the topics and techniques covered during the sessions of a programme INASP ran in 2012 to build the training skills of a selected group of Latin American and Caribbean policy influencers.
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 is a report to assess the nature and magnitude of the impact of the INASP/IDS Training Programme 'Pedagogy skills for trainers of policy makers and influencers' that sought to build the training abilities of a group of African ‘master trainers'.
This is the final report of a three-year project carried out by Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Honduras (UNAH), Sida and INASP that aimed to make a significant contribution towards the development of a sustainable research culture in Honduras.
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 sets out the findings of research carried out into how the Parliament of Uganda currently handles Science, Technology and Innovation (STI).