Strengthening research partnerships for better health and sustainable development

Strengthening health systems for universal health coverage and sustainable development

Strengthening research for health, innovation and development in South Africa

Public-Private Partnerships and Sustainable Agricultural Development

Agriculture in Africa is not sustainable because average yields have been stagnating for decades due to underinvestment, especially in the development of agricultural markets, crop improvement and the sustainable management of agricultural systems. Low public sector funding for agricultural research and lack of incentives for the private sector to operate in areas where there is no market large...

Mutual research capacity strengthening: a qualitative study of two-way partnerships in public health research

INTRODUCTION Capacity building has been employed in international health and development sectors to describe the process of 'experts' from more resourced countries training people in less resourced countries. Hence the concept has an implicit power imbalance based on 'expert' knowledge. In 2011, a health research strengthening workshop was undertaken at Atoifi Adventist Hospital, Solomon Island...

Research for Sustainable Development

Preface The advancing climate change is one of the most important and most urgent challenges of our time. However, the UN Climate Conference in Copenha-gen in December 2009 made clear how difficult it is to achieve an international agreement on binding climate protection goals. Germany has a pioneering role in climate research and climate modelling, in the development of strategies to adapt to ...