Promoting Southern publishing, supporting routes to share Southern research with wider audiences and embedding skills within institutions are all part of INASP's vision of 'research and knowledge at the heart of development'.
Solving complex development challenges requires knowledge, evidence, consideration of context and practical application. Research therefore has a crucial role to play in addressing global challenges and contributing to the achievement of the Global Goals for Sustainable Development (SDGs). But for research to have this role it has to be effectively communicated and shared with the wide range of people who can use it to inform the global debates, policy and practice. In the first of two blog posts, Ruth Bottomley shares some of the ways that INASP is supporting the sharing of Southern research and how this will continue within INASP's new five-year strategy.
One of the principles in the new INASP strategy is that we will promote equity by actively addressing the needs of both men and women across all of our work. Ruth Bottomley explores what this means.
We have a problem. We desperately need to bring research and knowledge to bear on the world’s most pressing problems....
Strengthening the production, sharing and use of research and knowledge for development underlies INASP's priorities for the next five years, writes Julie Brittain.
This piece was previously published on Jon Harle’s Medium blog site, republished here with his permission. To what extent is...
