Research Capacity Building Component

项目总结（见说明）： 非洲的心理健康研究能力和基础设施极其有限，专门资金很少，训练有素的心理健康研究人员稀缺，缺乏基础设施支持，心理健康研究的培训和监督机会很少。AFFIRM旨在发展非洲公共心理健康干预研究的研究能力。该中心的具体能力发展目标包括： 1)在枢纽机构之间建立公平和可持续的非洲伙伴关系、网络和联盟; 2)在枢纽国家建立足够数量的可持续地方能力; 3)加强研究培训，为心理健康研究人员建立职业发展道路; 4)改善中心合作伙伴的内部管理结构和研究环境; 5)支持行政、治理和财务职能所需的基础设施; 6)加强个人、机构和国家各级的领导。 非洲森林资源管理协会的能力发展办法将利用创新战略，包括侧重于国内发展;采用系统和职业长期视角;应对中心国家的独特性;促进对话、伙伴关系和可持续性。AFFIRM研究中心的研究能力被设想为一系列紧密相连的步骤，以确定并充分准备同事， 参与心理健康研究。在每个阶段，将针对处于各种职业阶段的干部开展各种活动。这些活动将分为中心资助的活动，包括提供奖学金，参加关于具体研究主题的短期课程，访问研究国家进行学习，以及 不是由中心资助，而是通过将中心聚集在一起的机会创建的，包括介绍性教学课程和硕士课程。将根据全面基线能力需求评估的结果及其与《行动纲领》条款的一致性确定各项活动的优先次序。 中心内的能力建设还将侧重于与其他获奖区域中心的联网工作。

PROJECT SUMMARY (See instructions): Mental health research capacity and infrastructure in Africa are extremely limited, with little funding dedicated, a scarcity of trained mental health research personnel, a dearth of infrastructural support, and few opportunities for training and supervision in mental health research. AFFIRM aims to develop research capacity in Africa for public mental health intervention research. Specific capacity development aims of the Hub include: 1) Creating equitable and sustainable African partnerships, networks and alliances between Hub institutions; 2) Building a critical mass of sustainable local capacity in Hub countries; 3) Strengthening research training and building career pathways for mental health researchers; 4) Improving internal management structures and research environments within Hub partners; 5) Supporting the infrastructure necessary for administrative, governance, and financial functions; and 6) Strengthening leadership at individual, institutional and national levels. AFFlRM's capacity development approach will make use of innovative strategies, including focusing on In country development; employing systems and career-long perspectives; responding to the uniqueness of Hub countries; and promoting dialogue, partnership and sustainability. Research capacity in AFFIRM sites is envisioned as a closely interconnected sequence of steps, to identify and fully prepare colleagues for involvement in mental health research. At each stage, various activities, targeting cadres at a wide-variety of career stages, will be carried out. These will be divided into Hub-funded activities, including fellowships to attend short courses on specific research themes, and visit research countries for shadowing, and activities not funded by the Hub but created through opportunities of bringing Hub together, including introductory teaching sessions and masters-level programmes. Activities will be prioritized according to results from the comprehensive baseline capacity needs assessments, and their alignment with the terms of the FOA. Capacity building within the Hub will also focus on net-working with other awarded regional Hubs.