The Research Quality Plus (RQ+) Assessment Framework
The Research Quality Plus (RQ+) Assessment Framework is a recent contribution to the quest for improvements in the assessment of research quality. We designed the...
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Samar Verma, Senior Program Specialist for the Think Tank Initiative (TTI) in South Asia
Samar Verma is a Senior Program Specialist of the Think Tank Initiative (TTI) for the South Asia Region. As such, he is based at the International Development Research...
Research Quality Plus: A Holistic Approach to Evaluating Research
IDRC's Evaluation Division has developed a new and exiting Research Quality evaluation approach that brings together several bodies of knowledge on the subject. The approach, named:...
Writing for Change: An Interactive Guide to Effective Writing, Writing for Science, and Writing for Advocacy
Most of us have to write formally as part of our work and, as we know, effective writing gets results. Few of us, however, have been trained to write effectively and many of us see writing as...
Working with Indigenous Knowledge: A Guide for Researchers
Experience has shown us that development efforts that ignore local technologies, local systems of knowledge, and the local environment generally fail to achieve their desired objectives....
Bridging the Know–Do Gap: A Resource for Researchers
The Knowledge Translation Toolkit provides a thorough overview of what knowledge translation (KT) is and how to use it most effectively to bridge the “know–do” gap between research,...
INASP’s reflections on lessons from recent research communication capacity building experiences
This is the third in a series of posts in response to a paper that Enrique and Martine produced after evaluating a capacity building for research communication project...
IDRC has been keeping ideas alive -literally
IDRC has made a rather interesting claim: Canadian support to researchers in the 1970s and 1980s Chile kept ideas alive, quite literally. Few scholars were more under threat than social...
Building the Case for Core Support
As posted earlier in this blog, the Think Tank Initiative’s 2010-2011 annual report has just been released. This report focuses on the work of the 51 think tanks supported by the...
Self-Assessment Toolbox
A Toolbox for Self-assessment: This guidebook presents an innovative and thoroughly tested model for organizational self-assessment. This guidebook presents an innovative and thoroughly tested model for...