RESEARCH UTILIZATION
Turning Research into Practice: Suggested Actions from Case-studies of Sexual and Reproductive Health

How do you go about turning research into practice? Many policymakers, program managers, and researchers are interested in implementing projects based on proven practices, but need to know how to do so. This publication, "Turning research into practice: Suggested actions from case-studies of sexual and reproductive health" (TRIP) identifies factors that both facilitate and impede research utilization. The central component of this document is a conceptual framework that highlights a variety of issues and processes that influence the utilization of research results at various stages of the research process. The framework should be considered a generic guide that will need to be adapted depending on the setting.

The TRIP report is the outcome of two technical consultations convened by WHO's Department of Reproductive Health and Research in collaboration with Family Health International, the Population Council’s Frontiers in Reproductive Health program, the US Agency for International Development, UNFPA,  PATH, John Snow International, and EngenderHealth. It identifies common determinants of research utilization and presents a range of pathways to research utilization. The report includes numerous, diverse case studies that are analyzed retrospectively to elicit lessons learned from different approaches to the utilization of sexual and reproductive health research.

Report
UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction. 2006. "Turning research into practice: Suggested actions from case-studies of sexual and reproductive health." Geneva: World Health Organization, Department of Reproductive Health and Research. (PDF)

Summary and table of contents (offsite full text)

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Getting Research into Policy and Practice

Additional information
The TRIP framework was officially launched by WHO in Nairobi, Kenya, on 4 June 2007 at the “Reproductive Health Programme Managers’ and Research Directors’ Meeting on TRIP, Research Utilization and Universal Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health,” WHO, Nairobi, Kenya, 4–7 June 2007.

Ian Askew, director of the FRONTIERS program, gave two presentations:

• "To what extent has a TRIP approach been successful? Evaluating research utilization" (PDF)
• "Using the TRIP framework to understand how research was turned into practice: Postabortion care (PAC) in West Africa" (PDF)

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See Also

• FRONTIERS Scaling Up
• FRONTIERS Utilization of Research Findings

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