Street Child and Education Development Center (EDC), have been working in a partnership to test the Engage toolkit in primary schools in Sierra Leone and Bangladesh. The experience of collaboration in education research offers a blueprint of the potential for such cross-cultural partnerships to be equitable, mutually respectful and optimally impactful. The blog describes the process.
They conclude: “Rather than focusing just on a joint outcome, equitable research partnerships must be defined through commitment to a process that prioritises meaningful partner contributions and mutual learning from start to finish.”