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Principles for Education Research in/for/by Africa

The Forum for Education Research in/for/by Africa is convened by Echidna Giving, Imaginable Futures, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Porticus, and facilitated by On Think Tanks.

The Forum will help co-produce a set of principles to inform the funding decisions of a potential consortium of education research funders in Africa.

You can follow the Forum here and in socialmedia #educationresearchafrica 

Even if you cannot participate in the Zoom workshops we would like to capture your experience and opinions.

Please answer this questionnaire. You can choose to answer any or all the questions!

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The Forum has been designed with the support of a Steering Group whose members include: Jane Kabubo-Mariara (Partnership for Economic Policy), Barassou Diawara (African Capacity Building Foundation),  Kwame Owino (Institute of Economic Affairs), Andrea Ordoñez (Southern Voice), Francesco Obino (Global Development Network), Joe Asunka (Afrobarometer), Moses Ngware (African Population and Health Research Center) and Emmanuel Manyasa (Usawa Agenda). 

Please tell us who you are if you want us to reference you in the final outputs.
The purpose of the Forum is to develop a set of guiding principles for education research funders to follow. 

Can you suggest 1 or 2 principles for each of the following categories? 

For instance: 

On funding/support models, funding and support mechanisms:
  • Provide general operating support as your first choice
  • Earmark funding to support early career researchers 
1.What guiding objectives should education research funders have? 
2.What guiding principles should help education research funders make funding and support decisions?
3.What guiding principles would you recommend to promote participation of women in education research in Africa?
4.What guiding principles would you recommend to ensure that funding and support reaches a wide range of organisations in the African education research and policy ecosystem?
5.What guiding principles would you recommend to promote participation of young researchers in education research in Africa?
6.What guiding principles would you recommend to promote use of education research generated in Africa?
7.What guiding principles would you recommend to promote high quality education research that takes into account multiple local research traditions and disciplines?
8.What guiding principles would you recommend to promote the wide and effective communication of education policy research in Africa?
9.What guiding principles would you recommend to ensure that all funding and support provided contributes towards strengthening local organizations?
10.What guiding principles would you recommend to promote the wide and effective communication of education policy research in Africa?
11.What guiding principles would you recommend to ensure the sustainability of this effort to fund education policy research generation, communication and use in Africa?
12.Please add any other principles you think should 
13.Name
14.Surname
15.Email
16.Affiliation
17.Role/position
18.Country or region where your work is focused
Thank you very much for contributing to this process.

We will draw on your answers to feed into the final outputs of the Forum.

In the meantime, if you have any questions about the Forum or the Consortium do not hesitate to contact us: enrique@onthinktanks.org
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