IAPRA: Irish African Partnership Research Archive

The Irish African Partnership is a three year pilot project (2008-2010) to bring together all nine universities on the island of Ireland and universities in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda in a unique, high-level partnership to develop a coordinated approach to research capacity building in order to make an effective contribution to the reduction of poverty. The IAP was developed under the auspices of Universities Ireland and is largely funded by the Irish Government’s development cooperation programme, Irish Aid. IAPRA (the Irish African Partnership Research Archive) is being populated with refereed publications, e-theses, reports and policy documents and relevant research data is being identified. IAP members can upload content directly into the repository via the integrated Research Registry (a light-weight CRIS). Relevant reports, policy documents and research data which are extraneous to individual research profiles can be uploaded directly to the repository. IAPRA material can be retrieved using the usual search mechanisms and browsed via the four IAP thematic areas of Health, Gender, ICT and Education.