HOW TO USE THIS SCORECARD:
This exercise asks you and your team, within a group discussion, to assess and mark your organisation across six domains. These six domains are necessary conditions for sustainable capacity development in research development impact.
Assess each domain in your organisational context:
1. Vision: clarity and authority of leadership in relation to prioritising the production and use of quality research evidence for development in policy and practice;
2. People: sufficiency and diversity of human resources to implement the vision of ethical research for development;
3. Skills: adequacy of academic/technical/management/political capabilities amongst the people to commission/conduct/translate/engage on/use ethical, quality and relevant research for development;
4. Motivation: adequacy of incentives and motivators to utilise the skills in research for development impact;
5. Systems: adequacy of structures and processes to coordinate and manage motivated and skilled people in development research impact;
6. Resources: sufficiency of resources to implement quality research for development systems.
Before you start:
Skills domain: Consider a range of skills in this progress marker, including effective partnering in research, engaging on and communicating research with users.
Context: Capture key points of your discussion around the progress markers to provide contextual insights into your reasons and the processes of change across your organisation during the workshop plenary discussion including evidence or illustrative cases.
YOUR RESULTS:
- You will be able to see the results after you complete the Scorecard.
- You can also choose to have your organisation's results emailed to you.
- You will be able to compare your organisation's results with an anonymised, aggregated set of data. This data is comprised of all the different organisations that have used the Scorecard.
- Your organisational results can help guide strategic planning and culture discussions with your team and leadership.