In-country consultations

Related pages: Research consultation questionnaire | Meetings in the UK with stakeholders | Visioning and Strategy Workshop | Objectives and portfolio | In-country consultations | Annex(251 kb)

On behalf of DFID, a third party organisation will hold in-country consultations in:

On the basis of these scoping discussions, we will hold in-country follow up consultations in South Africa (week of 19 November) and China (weeks of 18 October – Agriculture, 30 October – Health, and early November – Climate Change) to help determine the role of BRICS countries within the strategy.  

The types of question to be asked will be:

1. How best to achieve demand-led research in [health].. research area

• who are the authentic representatives of the research users and how easy is it to elicit demands from them?
• what are the current ways that demand is appraised and are they effective?

2. How best to develop capacity to do, to access and to use research from ….. research area? [IDRC methodology for use in this case.]

• who currently does, accesses and uses research in this area?
• how effective is the research done, accessed and/ or used?
• is people’s capacity a limiting factor to better doing, accessing and/ or using?
• if so what could be done to improve capacity?

3. How best can outputs from the ….. research area be utilised?

• how is research currently made available, is it effective and where does the research come from?
• who needs to access research in this area, do they have access and do they how best to use the research?

4. New powerful economies

• What effects do you think new powerful economies such as China or India currently have in the different domains of the main research areas?
• What type and scale of effects will arise in the future
• Do you see a role for partnership with these countries’ researchers in X area?

Updated 24 September 2007

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