Choosing the Right Projects
Designing Selection Processes for North-South Research Partnership Programmes
Priska Sieber und Thomas Braunschweig
The aim of present publication is to help design, revise, and implement project selection processes in North-South research partnership (NSRP) programmes. In particular, it addresses the complex challenge of dealing with the multiple objectives of NSRP programmes: scientific quality, development relevance, and adherence to partnership principles.
The Manual shows how to involve actors from different areas and with different backgrounds, how to translate the various objectives of NSRP programmes into a coherent and meaningfully structured set of selection criteria, how to weight these criteria, collect relevant information from different sources, apply a formal methodology to sorting, processing, synthesising, and comparing the information collected, and how to genuinely incorporate the perspective of the South at various steps of the selection process. Its modular structure makes it possible to either integrate individual steps into an existing selection process or to completely rethink a process and redefine it.
This Manual also aims to trigger a debate on how to improve selection processes so that projects can better meet the diversity of requirements inherent to NSPRs. The KFPE therefore welcomes comments and feedback on the present Manual (kfpe@scnat.ch).
KFPE would appreciate it if you could help spread the message of the book, by recommending it to partners, libraries and colleagues, by writing a review for a journal, or by ordering further copies for distribution. The publication can be ordered free of charge or downloaded.
An Overview in French: Comment choisir les bons projets - Aide à l’élaboration de processus de sélection pour les programmes de partenariat Nord-Sud in .pdf -Format (Size: 277 KB)
English Version with Cover Page in .pdf -Format (Size: 908 KB)
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