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Building on the foundations of the Research Quality Plus (RQ+) approach, IDRC is working with our global research community, including the Integrated Knowledge Translation Research Network, to reimagine how we design, manage and evaluate the quality of research carried out in partnership with knowledge holders, users and/or beneficiaries. The result is RQ+ 4 Co-Pro, or Research Quality Plus for Co-Production, a novel framework which embraces the tenets of RQ+ and applies them to the specifics of research co-production.
RQ+ 4 Co-Pro prioritizes the importance of meaningful partnerships between researchers, knowledge holders, users and/or beneficiaries throughout research design, research implementation and the sharing of research findings. The aim is to strengthen co-production processes to advance rigorous, legitimate and useful understanding of our natural and social world. We invite our partners and the research community at large to help tailor and test this new approach across contexts.