Centre for Innovative Drug Development and Therapeutic Trials for Africa (CDT-Africa), Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Global Health & Infection Department, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, UK.
Global Health. 2021 Nov 20;17(1):131. doi: 10.1186/s12992-021-00785-2.
Shortage of skilled workforce is a global concern but represents a critical bottleneck to Africa's development. While global academic partnerships have the potential to help tackle this development bottleneck, they are criticised for inadequate attention to equity, impact, and sustainability. We propose a new values-driven partnership model for sustainable and equitable global partnerships that achieve impact.
The model was based on the authors' experiences of participation in over 30 partnerships and used insights from the Capability Approach.
We developed an Academic Partnership Maturity Model, with five levels of maturity, extending from pre-contemplative to mature partnerships. The level of maturity increases depending on the level of freedom, equity, diversity, and agency afforded to the partners. The approach offers a framework for establishing a forward-looking partnership anchored in mutual learning, empowerment, and autonomy.
This is a pragmatic model limited by the biases of experiential knowledge. Further development of the concept, including metrics and an evaluation tool kit are needed to assist partners and funders.
技能型劳动力短缺是一个全球性问题，但却是非洲发展的关键瓶颈。尽管全球学术伙伴关系有可能有助于解决这一发展瓶颈，但它们也因对公平、影响和可持续性的关注不足而受到批评。我们提出了一种新的以价值观为导向的伙伴关系模式，以实现可持续和公平的全球伙伴关系并取得影响力。
该模型基于作者参与 30 多个伙伴关系的经验，并利用能力方法的见解。
我们开发了一个学术伙伴关系成熟度模型，有五个成熟度级别，从无考虑到成熟伙伴关系。成熟度级别取决于合作伙伴享有的自由度、公平性、多样性和代理权的水平。该方法提供了一个建立以相互学习、赋权和自主为基础的前瞻性伙伴关系的框架。
这是一个受经验知识偏见限制的实用模型。需要进一步发展这一概念，包括指标和评估工具包，以协助合作伙伴和资助者。
