Setting research priorities across science, technology, and health sectors: the Tanzania experience
Setting research priorities across science, technology, and health sectors: the Tanzania experience
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DOI：
10.1186/s12961-015-0002-2
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发表时间：
2015-03-12
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4
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Montorzi, Gabriela
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作者：
de Haan, Sylvia;Kingamkono, Rose;Montorzi, Gabriela
背景资料：确定研究重点是创新和经济增长的关键，因为它使决策者能够有效地针对具有最大潜在公共利益的问题。因此，确定研究优先事项的过程对于促进中低收入国家以科学、技术和创新为驱动的发展至关重要。我们在此报告了坦桑尼亚科学技术委员会（COSTECH）最近与卫生研究促进发展理事会（协调中心）和新伙伴关系规划和协调局。这是该国第一个此类进程，汇集了来自科学、技术和卫生42个分部门的利益攸关方。跨部门研究优先事项的确定过程包括一个“培训培训员”讲习班、一个示范讲习班和七个确定优先事项讲习班，这些讲习班为来自公共和私营研究与发展机构、大学、非政府组织和科技合作委员会的其他附属机构的代表举办。讲习班的结果是为每个分部门列出了研究优先事项的等级清单，共计约800个优先事项。一个专家小组大大减少了这一庞大的数字，以便建立一个与国家发展计划相一致的可管理的工具，用于指导研究投资。结论：坦桑尼亚的经验是一个有启发性的例子，说明了在中低收入国家试图确定研究优先领域和制定科学、技术和创新研究议程时所面临的挑战和问题。随着各国增加对研究的投资，也必须增加对研究管理和治理的投资，这是各国适当利用研究投资的一个关键和急需的能力。
Background: Identifying research priorities is key to innovation and economic growth, since it informs decision makers on effectively targeting issues that have the greatest potential public benefit. As such, the process of setting research priorities is of pivotal importance for favouring the science, technology, and innovation (STI)-driven development of low-and middle-income countries.Methods: We report herein on a major cross-sectoral nationwide research priority setting effort recently carried out in Tanzania by the Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH) in partnership with the Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED) and the NEPAD Agency. The first of its type in the country, the process brought together stakeholders from 42 sub-sectors in science, technology, and health. The cross-sectoral research priority setting process consisted of a 'training-of-trainers' workshop, a demonstration workshop, and seven priority setting workshops delivered to representatives from public and private research and development institutions, universities, non-governmental organizations, and other agencies affiliated to COSTECH.Results: The workshops resulted in ranked listings of research priorities for each sub-sector, totalling approximately 800 priorities. This large number was significantly reduced by an expert panel in order to build a manageable instrument aligned to national development plans that could be used to guide research investments.Conclusions: The Tanzania experience is an instructive example of the challenges and issues to be faced in when attempting to identify research priority areas and setting an STI research agenda in low-and middle-income countries. As countries increase their investment in research, it is essential to increase investment in research management and governance as well, a key and much needed capacity for countries to make proper use of research investments.