Institute and the Meridian Foundation begin a research partnership on development finance
Geneva
A multi-year research partnership will support comparative work on development finance and institutional resilience, under published terms of reference that leave editorial control with the Institute.
The International Research Institute and the Meridian Foundation have begun a multi-year research partnership supporting comparative analysis of development finance and institutional resilience in emerging markets.
The partnership funds a programme of studies and the maintenance of an open dataset. Its terms of reference are published in full, and — as with all funded work at the Institute — editorial control over findings and conclusions remains with the Institute’s researchers.
“Funding never carries a right of review over our findings,” said Executive Director Adaeze Okonkwo. “Publishing the terms of a partnership is part of how we make that commitment verifiable rather than merely stated.”
The Meridian Foundation has no role in the design of individual studies, the interpretation of results or the decision to publish. Any output produced under the partnership will disclose the funding relationship on its face.
Details of the Institute’s approach to funding and independence are set out in its independence and funding disclosures.