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31Aug

COHRED has received a substantial grant

COHRED has received a substantial grant from the Botnar Foundation in Switzerland to digitize the RFI. Digitization will take place over 18 months between May 2019 – October 2020.

This grant will allow for the RFI website to be converted into an online digitial platform that will allow for the easy completion of RFI reports for institutions across the globe. The goals for the platform include improvements to the evidence base, meta-analysis of reports in order to understand trends and gaps, and will allow institutions to publish high quality reports with minimal effort and time.

This means you will be able to:

Work with a new and improved version of the RFI – that incorporates comments received from RFI users
Access the RFI website and find existing guidelines, practices and examples rapidly
Submit your institutional RFI report online reducing report writing time and effort
Publish high quality reports – selecting from several templates – with inclusion of your own graphics
Find lessons from everywhere and meta-analyses of reports to improve equitability in research collaborations

This will allow institutions, no matter how well-resourced, to produce high quality RFI reports which assist them in better understanding their practices, any gaps, and how they can improve on these in the future.

The RFI Team is excited to have the opportunity to improve the RFI system for all current and future users, and look forward to the coming months.

31Aug

RFI experts, RFI implementers Share their views

GabrielUncategorized

In this session, RFI experts, RFI implementers and shared their views on how the RFI adds value to the research partnerships they are involved in – what can be improved – and why all research stakeholders should consider implementing the RI. The session included presentations on the following:

Application of the RFI in INSERM and AVIESAN
Added value of the RFI to IRESSEF
The WHO TDR RFI report – benefits and challenges from a funders perspective
Benefits of the RFI to national governments: Analysis of the RFI reports of 3 key Senegalese institutions
The RFI – Implementation at the IHMT & it’s adoption in the CPLP.

The presentations were followed by a discussion and questions from the audience. It was encouraging that may questions focused on “how to globalize the RFI”, rather than whether it was important.

The presentations can be found on our website here.

12Apr

Improving Campaigns Through Organizational Learning

GabrielUncategorized

James Lavery of Emory University in the U.S. will adapt an organizational learning tool to enable global health campaigns to draw on their experiences, improve their partner interactions, and enhance their overall impact.

Global health campaigns are primarily evaluated in terms of program delivery and outcomes. However, these large and complex organizations interact with many different partners, and there is an untapped opportunity to improve their performance by learning about how their design and approaches affect each other.

They will modify an established research fairness initiative framework for two global health campaigns to measure 45 indicators, such as the nature of a relationship, across defined subtopics. These data will be analyzed to understand how the tool can improve campaign impact, and they will assess the value of the framework for global health campaigns in a qualitative case study.