Good practices in funding transdisciplinary and participatory research for sustainable development in Africa
- This working paper explores how funding requirements enable transdisciplinary research (TDR) for sustainable development in Africa, focusing on German public funders and their TDR programmes in sustainable land management and agricultural development. It consolidates experiences from Global North-South collaborations to identify good practices in funding TDR, particularly during the initial phase of defining research problems and objectives. Key findings suggest that funders should combine research and development funding for long-term TDR processes, explicitly define TDR expectations in selection processes, create TDR-friendly budget structures, and support a collaborative problem definition phase by funding joint proposal writing and facilitating joint learning. The paper aims to foster a dialogue on good practices in funding TDR between funders, researchers, and practice organizations in Germany and Africa, facilitated by a series of workshops under the INTERFACES project. Insights are based on key expert interviews and the first workshop with funders and researchers in Germany.
Document Type: | Working Paper |
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Language: | English |
Author: | Eefje Aarnoudse, Tina Beuchelt, Berenice Fischer, Hannah Jaenicke, Wiltrud Terlau |
Subtitle (English): | Learning lessons from German public funding programmes on sustainable land management and agricultural development in Africa |
Number of pages: | 31 |
ISBN: | 978-3-96043-119-0 |
ISSN: | 2511-0861 |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-86490 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.18418/978-3-96043-119-0 |
Publishing Institution: | Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg |
Date of first publication: | 2024/10/24 |
Series (Volume): | IZNE Working Paper Series (Nr. 24/2) |
Keywords: | Africa; Global North-South collaboration; research funding; transdisciplinary research |
Departments, institutes and facilities: | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
Internationales Zentrum für Nachhaltige Entwicklung (IZNE) | |
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 303 Gesellschaftliche Prozesse |
6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 63 Landwirtschaft / 630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche | |
Series: | IZNE Working Paper Series |
Entry in this database: | 2024/10/24 |
Licence (Multiple languages): | In Copyright (Urheberrechtsschutz) |