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Research Capacity Strengthening in Low and Middle Income
                Countries - An Evaluation of the WHO/TDR Career Development
                Fellowship Programme

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Between August 2012 and April 2013 the Career Development
                Fellowship programme of the Special Programme for Research and
                Training in Tropical Diseases (World Health Organization)
                underwent an external evaluation to assess its past performance
                and determine recommendations for future programme development
                and continuous performance improvement. The programme provides a
                year-long training experience for qualified researchers from low
                and middle income countries at pharmaceutical companies or
                product development partnerships. Independent evaluators from
                the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and the Barcelona
                Institute for Global Health used a results-based methodology to
                review the programme. Data were gathered through document
                review, surveys, and interviews with a range of programme
                participants. The final evaluation report found the Career
                Development Fellowship to be relevant to organizers' and
                programme objectives, efficient in its operations, and effective
                in its training scheme, which was found to address needs and
                gaps for both fellows and their home institutions. Evaluators
                found that the programme has the potential for impact and
                sustainability beyond the programme period, especially with the
                successful reintegration of fellows into their home
                institutions, through which newly-developed skills can be shared
                at the institutional level. Recommendations included the
                development of a scheme to support the re-integration of fellows
                into their home institutions post-fellowship and to seek
                partnerships to facilitate the scaling-up of the programme. The
                impact of the Professional Membership Scheme, an online
                professional development tool launched through the programme,
                beyond the scope of the Career Development Fellowship programme
                itself to other applications, has been identified as a positive
                unintended outcome. The results of this evaluation may be of
                interest for other efforts in the field of research capacity
                strengthening in LMICs or, generally, to other professional
                development schemes of a similar structure.

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Reproducció del document publicat a:
                http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004631

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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016, vol. 10, num. 5, p.
                e0004631

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Articles publicats en revistes (ISGlobal)

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Research Capacity Strengthening in Low and Middle Income
                Countries - An Evaluation of the WHO/TDR Career Development
                Fellowship Programme