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Improving Impacts of Research Partnerships

September 15, 2020

Research is a widely applied instrument for harnessing knowledge and providing insight into complex development issues. It helps in generating options for policy, management and action, and in empowering people and organizations in developing and transition countries, as well as industrialized countries. Ultimately this should make it easier to cope with the challenges of sustainable development under increasingly difficult circumstances. Research for development is therefore frequently placed in an application-oriented context, in which concepts like inter-and transdisciplinary research, equity, ownership, participation, etc. are widely accepted, but are not always put into practice. Research partnerships of various types and intensities, involving research institutions in industrialized and developing or transition1 countries, are important means for contributing to knowledge generation and capacity building (SDC 2002, Laws 2003). 

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