Integrity Research and Consultancy, in collaboration with SpringFactor, Spark and the Platform, released a report exploring barriers to research collaboration.

The report considers why the international development community often lacks evidence-based research to inform its programming in fragile and conflict-affected states. A lack of networking opportunities during planning of research projects is part of the challenge, and a series of workshops with international and national research actors in Juba, Mali and Beirut (for Syria) were held to discuss how to address this issue.