Evaluating the Quality of Global Research Partnerships

Abstract

This report provides recommendations for funding institutions to evaluate the quality of global research partnerships. These recommendations are applicable in the stage of project selection, proposal submission, and interviews (ex-ante), as well as for mid-term reviews and final project evaluations (ex-post). The report makes recommendations on what to evaluate and how to evaluate the quality of global research partnerships. The recommendations on what to evaluate include eleven possible evaluation topics and thirty possible evaluation criteria. An evaluation matrix provides an overview and source of information and inspiration on the topics and criteria. From the evaluation matrix, funding institutions can carefully select those topics and criteria that are applicable and relevant to their funding programmes. The matrix also shows, which evaluation criteria the authors suggest as ‘must-haves’ for equitable partnerships. The recommendations on how to evaluate the quality of partnerships provide funding institutions with suggestions on how to organise an evaluation. These suggestions should be carefully adapted to a specific funding programme