Ecuador; Peru; Bolivia; Cuba; Haiti; Senegal; Burkina Faso; Benin; Cameroon; DR Congo; Morocco; Niger; Rwanda; Burundi; Madagascar; Cambodia; Vietnam; Philippines
Fair Partnerships for Quality Higher Education and Research for the SDGs
Evaluation of the cooperation programme “Fair Partnerships for Quality Higher Education and Research for the SDGs – Development Research Projects and South Training Projects”
The programme aimed to strengthen research capacities, enhance training provision, and promote sustainable academic partnerships between Belgian higher education and research institutions and institutions in partner countries, with a focus on the Sustainable Development Goals. Its main activities included supporting development research projects, South-driven training and capacity-building projects, and long-term institutional partnerships that linked higher education and research to development priorities and strengthened scientific cooperation and governance.
Learning Avenue's Role
Learning Avenue conducted an evaluation of the cooperation programme, assessing its effects on research capacity development, institutional strengthening, and the quality and sustainability of international research and training partnerships for the SDGs.
Donors / Implementation Partners
Academy of Research and Higher Education (ARES), Wallonia–Belgium; higher education and research institutions in 18 partner countries
Keywords
Research capacity; academic partnerships; SDGs; higher education and research governance; international cooperation