Learning from doing the EquitAble project : content, context, process, and impact of a multi-country research project on vulnerable populations in Africa
Date
2014-10
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AOSIS Publishing
Abstract
Background: The ‘EquitAble’ project carried out content analyses of policies and collected
and analysed qualitative and quantitative data concerning access to health services in Sudan,
Malawi, Namibia and South Africa. Our particular concern was to address the situation of
people with disabilities, although not in isolation from other marginalised or vulnerable
groups.
Objectives: This article reports on the content, context, process and impact of project
EquitAble, funded by the European Commission Seventh Research Framework Programme,
which brought together researchers from Ireland, Norway, South Africa, Namibia, Sudan and
Malawi.
Method: After the 4-year project ended in February 2013, all members of the consortium were
asked to anonymously complete a bespoke questionnaire designed by the coordinating team.
The purpose of the questionnaire was to capture the views of those who collaborated on the
research project in relation to issues of content, context, process and impact of the EquitAble
project.
Results: Our results indicated some of the successes and challenges encountered by our
consortium.
Conclusion: We identified contextual and process learning points, factors often not discussed
in papers, which typically focus on the reporting of the ‘content’ of results.
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CITATION: MacLachlan, M., et al. 2014. Learning from doing the EquitAble project: Content, context, process, and impact of a multi-country research project on vulnerable populations in Africa. African Journal of Disability, 3(2): 1-12, doi: 10.4102/ajod.v3i2.89.
The original publication is available at http://www.ajod.org
The original publication is available at http://www.ajod.org
Keywords
EquitAble (Project), People with disabilities -- Medical care -- Africa, People with disabilities -- Services for -- Africa, People with disabilities -- Medical care -- Research -- Africa -- Evaluation, People with disabilities -- Services for -- Research -- Africa -- Evaluation, Health services accessibility -- Research -- Africa -- Evaluation
Citation
MacLachlan, M., et al. 2014. Learning from doing the EquitAble project: Content, context, process, and impact of a multi-country research project on vulnerable populations in Africa. African Journal of Disability, 3(2): 1-12, doi: 10.4102/ajod.v3i2.89