Background documentation
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Seminar: Good Ownership, Good Donorship in Research for Development26 February |
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Report by the Policy and Operations Evaluation Department (IOB), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, May 2007. Response by the Netherlands Minister Development for Cooperation to the IOB evaluation of research policy, 1992 – 2005 (31 kB) On 31 May 2007 the Netherlands Minister for Development Cooperation, Bert Koenders, presented his response to the report by the Policy and Operations Evaluation Department (IOB), entitled Evaluation of the Netherlands’ Research Policy 1992-2005: Experiences with a new approach in six countries: Bolivia, Ghana, Mali, South Africa, Tanzania and Vietnam. The Minister comments on the design and the representativeness of the report, its conclusions and main findings, the key issues identified by IOB for the future, and IOB’s comments on the new knowledge and research policy.
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Conference : Knowledge on the Move27 – 28 February |
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Research partnerships: who decides? (137 kB) Independent review by the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) of the way in which the Netherlands Development Assistance Research Council (RAWOO) facilitated the conceptualisation, preparation and design of two North-South research partnerships. Review of Sida’s Research Cooperation. Syntnesis Report (260 kB) Krister Eduards. Sida EVALUATION 06/57. Synthesis report of five evaluation studies on Sida’s research cooperation: bilateral research cooperation; cooperating universities’IT functions; regional and international research; Development research in Sweden; and SAREC’s organization. A Changing Landscape. Making support to higher education and research in developing countries more effective. Proceedings and contributions. Ad Boeren and Gerrit Holtland (eds.), Nuffic, 2005. Proceedings and contributions of the international conference organized by Nuffic to discuss experiences and trends in policies and programmes which aim to strengthen higher education and research in developing countries. The aim was to come to practical suggestions for making support to tertiary education and research in developing countries more effective. Seventy experts from 26 countries were present. All the main stakeholders were represented, including southern policymakers, managers of higher education institutions (from the South and the North), academics, development practitioners and donors. For the proceedings and contributions visit www.nuffic.nl/nederlandse-organisaties/nieuws-evenementen/evenementen-archief/a-changing-landscape On the agenda: North-South research partnerships and agenda-setting processes Megan Bradley,Canadian Partnerships Program, IDRC The first section of this paper examines how bilateral donor strategies affect collaborative agenda-setting processes, focusing on the approaches adopted by the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. First section (820 kB) The second section explores researchers’ motivations for entering into North-South partnerships; the obstacles Southern researchers encounter in agenda-setting processes; and the strategies they employ to ensure that research partnerships respond to their concerns. Second section (364 kB) |