Table 5 KTP institutional arrangements
Characteristics | Cameroon | Uganda |
|---|---|---|
Goal | To build sustainable capacities for EIHP for better health in central Africa | To improve people’s health and health equity in East Africa through more effective use and application of knowledge to strengthen health policy and practice |
Mission | To create human capacity and resources to create, demand and better use research syntheses for health improvement | To access, synthesize, package and communicate evidence required for policy and practice and for influencing policy relevant research agendas for improved population health and health equity |
Governance arrangements | A research unit within the Yaoundé Central Hospital a teaching hospital closely linked with the Ministry of Public Health. | Research unit - Office of the Principal at the College of Health Sciences Makerere University Kampala, a public university working closely with the Uganda National Health Research Organization |
Issue-related Ad hoc steering group | ||
Stakeholders – audience | Researchers – policymakers – leaders of civil society representatives – journalists – development agencies – clinicians – senior officials from the ministry of health – hospital and program managers – students | Researchers – policymakers – leaders of civil society representatives – journalists – development agencies - senior officials from the ministry of health – hospital and program managers – students |
Secretariat | One leading researcher, several part time researchers and short term research assistants | Stable supervisor, one research officer, full time assistant researchers and volunteers |
International partnerships | AHPSR; CCGHR; CHSRF; NOKC; McMaster University; Stellenbosch University; WHO-EVIPNet | AHPSR; CCGHR; Karolinska Institutet; NOKC; McMaster University; WHO-EVIPNet |
Sources of funding | WHO-EVIPNet; GHRI-GHLA; EC - FP7 SURE; AHPSR – ID49; DFID; IDRC; Cameroon Government | IDRC; AHPSR; Swiss Tropical Institute; WHO-EVIPNet; EC - FP7 SURE; Uganda Government |
Estimated amount of funds received 2006–2012 ($ US) | 720,000 | The change of the hosting institution prevented us to have exhaustive figures on the whole period. |