Our Approach to Partnership and Collaboration

Equitable partnerships. We hold ourselves — and the partners we work with — to the principles of equitable research partnership. Global health research can either challenge or entrench imbalances of power in how agendas are set, funding is allocated, data are accessed, authorship is assigned and capacity is built (Nambiar, Chadha & Buse, 2025 ; Pai, Bandara, Kyobutungi, 2024)

In our research partnerships both locally, nationally and globally, we put our principles into practice:  clear, agreed roles, responsibilities and benefits for everyone involved; shared ownership of research priorities and design rather than extractive, one-way collaboration; fair acknowledgement and authorship; genuine two-way capacity strengthening; and equitable access to data, resources and the credit that flows from them. We expect prospective partners to share this commitment, and we weigh it in how we assess and shape every collaboration and partnership.

SEACO Partnership and Collaboration Guidance click here