How are research for development programmes implementing and evaluating equitable partnerships to address power asymmetries?

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The complexity of issues addressed by research for development (R4D) requires collaborations between partners from a range of disciplines and cultural contexts. Power asymmetries within such partnerships may obstruct the fair distribution of resources, responsibilities and benefits across all partners. This paper presents a cross-case analysis of five R4D partnership evaluations, their methods and how they unearthed and addressed power asymmetries. It contributes to the field of R4D partnership evaluations by detailing approaches and methods employed to evaluate these partnerships. Theory-based evaluations deepened understandings of how equitable partnerships contribute to R4D generating impact and centring the relational side of R4D. Participatory approaches that involved all partners in developing and evaluating partnership principles ensured contextually appropriate definitions and a focus on what partners value.

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Snijder, M. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8766-3015 Steege, R. Callander, M. Wahome, M. Rahman, M.F. Apgar, M. Theobald, S. Bracken, L.J. Dean, L. Mansaray, B. Saligram, P. Garimella, S. Arthurs-Hartnett, S. Karuga, R. Mejía Artieda, A.E. Chengo, V. Ateles, J.
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2023 The Authors. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Keywords:	Equitable partnerships; Evaluation research; Monitoring, evaluation and learning; Participatory evaluation; Research for development; Theory-based evaluation
Dates:	Published: April 2023 Published (online): 23 February 2023 Accepted: 30 January 2023
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > School of Health and Related Research (Sheffield) > ScHARR - Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research
Depositing User:	Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited:	23 Aug 2024 09:54
Last Modified:	23 Aug 2024 09:54
Published Version:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41287-023-00578-w
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	10.1057/s41287-023-00578-w
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:216398

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How are research for development programmes implementing and evaluating equitable partnerships to address power asymmetries?

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