Fostering Collaboration: Exploring the Role of the Global South in Global North-Led Research Initiatives
Fostering Collaboration: Exploring the Role of the Global South in Global North-Led Research Initiatives
The aim of the project is to examine collaborations in intervention studies between researchers from the Global North and East Africa, with an emphasis on inclusion, equity, and the identification of both challenges and favorable factors in such partnerships, as well as on cultural adaptation of the diagnostic process and the intervention applied in the studies.
Research questions:
Primary:
What are challenges and favorable factors in international collaborations in intervention studies?
Secondary:
1) To which extent was the intervention tailored to reflect the cultural context of the country or address its specific needs? 2) How was the equality and equity within the collaboration and between the partners perceived? 3) What were the effects of the collaboration on career and the establishment of a sustainable network?
The study uses qualitative methods. Semi structured interviews will be conducted. Researchers (from universities or research institutions, as well as researchers working in non-governmental organizations (NGOs)) and NGO as well as non-profit organization employees (non-researchers) from East Africa (Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda) who have collaborated in intervention studies are eligible for participation.
Team
Faustine Bwire Masath (University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania), Maria Böttche, Tobias Hecker (Universität Bielefeld), Helen Niemeyer
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