A Turtle’s Journey: Strengthening Indigenous Research Capacity through Mentoring

Youth Mentoring: Improving Programmes Through Research-Based Practice Youth Mentoring: Improving Programmes Through Research-Based Practice

Despite growing interest in youth mentoring interventions, the base of evidence on which programme and policy decisions are made remains curiously thin. In this article, the evaluation literature is reviewed and areas that merit additional research are identified. Recent programme evaluations have shed important tight onto some of the factors that increase the effectiveness of interventions. No...

Strengthening capacity for health research in Africa

Health research has a key role in the development of low-income and middle-income countries. There are several current initiatives that have greatly contributed to capacity strengthening of health research in sub-Saharan Africa, including those supported by WHO and Tropical Disease Research (TDR), the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and Department for Research Cooperation (SAREC...

Strengthening Research through Data Sharing.

Increasing chronic disease research capacity in Guatemala through a mentoring program.

OBJECTIVE The Chronic Disease Research Fellowship Program (RFP) aims to build the research capacity of recent medical graduates to support the development of chronic disease control strategies. SETTING Guatemala is undergoing an epidemiologic transition. However, given the way universities and the health care system are structured, it lacks an environment that fosters research careers and gen...

Frameworks for evaluating health research capacity strengthening: a qualitative study

BACKGROUND Health research capacity strengthening (RCS) projects are often complex and hard to evaluate. In order to inform health RCS evaluation efforts, we aimed to describe and compare key characteristics of existing health RCS evaluation frameworks: their process of development, purpose, target users, structure, content and coverage of important evaluation issues. A secondary objective was ...