Building institutional capacity for engaged research has multiple inherent challenges. To frame a comprehensive understanding of these tensions and kickstart participants’ efforts to collectively ...

A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene a 1.5-day workshop to bring together experts to propose areas for coordination and capacity building ...

The history of attempts to spread scientific know-how beyond western centres of excellence is littered with failures. Capacity building needs long-term commitment, a ...

Institutional constraints prevent the Least Developed Countries from fully utilizing the trade-related International Support Measures provided by development partners. A cost-benefit analysis has been ...

With initial recovery stages complete or underway, sufficient time has passed since the Nepal earthquake to reflect on deeper structural causes and institutional failures. The continuing crisis has ...

Building research and analytical capacity in relevant institutions through genuine, long-term partnerships can greatly help bridge the science and policy divide. The KCP combines retailing and ...

The 2030 Agenda recognizes that capacity in governments at all levels is critical to steer and support the transformations which it calls for. Thus, public servants at all levels of government need ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

There have also been some watershed moments that have bolstered optimism – such as the successful democratic elections in Nigeria as well as the fact that Africa received the second-highest amount of ...