Paper details

Paper authors	Stephanie Stern
In panel on	Collaborative humanitarian research – creating stronger pathways for impact
Paper presenter(s) will be presenting	In-Person / Online

Abstract

Uptake and more specifically research uptake is increasingly becoming a key subject of concern for humanitarian researchers and practicioners, who experience a strange paradox : there has never been so much information available and so little use of it
How can this be changed ?
• Researchers need to answer to a scientific question AND a programmatic question and indicators tracked should reflect this double approach. Researcher need to work more closely with technical/programme/uptake experts from the design phase to the dissemination phase. Action Against Hunger developped the OUR approach for research (systematic 3 dimension focus Operation/Uptake/Research since the design phase of a research project)
• More time, money and efforts should be dedicated to uptake especially in humanitarian research where there is an ethical obligation of result as research can improve life saving interventions. NGOs need to change the way they allocate their efforts and money when doing a research project. 60% of the efforts should be allocated to producing the research and 40% of the efforts to the uptake which encompasses making the evidence available, understandable, adapted to end users’ needs and usable.
• Increase accountability of all those who produce knowledge on uptake results and reinforce communication skills of researchers.

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