Publications

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

This report looks at the mentorship programme that was implemented in Zimbabwe by the VakaYiko consortium as part of the Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence (BCURE) programme.

This is a report of a gender mainstreaming knowledge cafe that was held in Zimbabwe in 2015.

This policy dialogue seeks to deepen the dialogue and coordination between government and the private sector, and increase the use of evidence in trade and industrial policy formulation.

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.

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 is a report of the pilot project launched in 2013 to provide advanced training to national research and education networks (NRENs) in Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

A report on a 2014 survey that was carried out to research the state of scholarly publishing in Bangladesh.

This is an impact evaluation of the Vietnam programme “Developing Capacity for Online Health Information Access and Use”.

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

An assessment to understand the training needs of members of the Administration of the Parliament of Zimbabwe.

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

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'.