Academic & Research Partnerships

AusAID supports the Australian and overseas development research community in producing and disseminating quality research materials.

To further heighten AusAID engagement with key research centres and collaborative research networks, AusAID is establishing research partnerships on topics of strategic importance to Australia's development cooperation program.

The emphasis is not only on producing high-quality research products, but on founding long-term institutional relationships and developing pools of expertise. This has the benefits of identifying emerging development issues and strengthening dialogue on development policy in the Asia Pacific region.

Objectives of these research partnerships are to:

Deliver relevant quality research that will improve the impact and effectiveness of AusAID's policy and programs
Identify emerging issues of importance to the Australian development cooperation program and foreign policy
Improve AusAID officers' access to expert multidisciplinary policy and technical advice on development issues
Stimulate international and domestic policy discussion on multisectoral approaches to development in the Asia Pacific region.

The AusAID Development Research Program (ADRP) in particular is furthering this agenda.

The ADRP partnerships are multi-year relationships based on jointly agreed annual research and outreach programs, managed by the partner, with an annual review of performance.

The model and approach for each research partnership will be unique, because of the different qualities of each research partner and the distinct expected outcome from each research theme.

See also on this website AusAID's Research program.