SIDA - Evaluation of Research Institutes on Peace and Security

This questionnaire forms part of the evaluation commissioned by SIDA of 5 research institutes on peace and security based in South Africa, undertaken by a team of consultants from COWI A/S in Denmark and Channel Research in Belgium. We thank you in advance for your attention and collaboration.

Q.1

What is your nationality?

Q.2

What is your current position?

Q.3

For which organisation (optional)?

Q.4

Timing

	Never	Less than 5 years	Less than 10 years	More than 10 years
How long have you worked on peace / security issues?
How long have you known about SAIIA?
How long have you been using their outputs?

Q.5

How did you find out about SAIIA?

Q.6

Which gaps do you see in the general peace / security research issues?

Q.7

How often do you use / attend?

	Less than 4 times a year	4 to 14 times a year	Several times a month	Several times a week
The website?
Articles, newsletter, short publications?
Reports, books?
Training?
Events hosted by SAIIA?

Q.8

What aspect of the institute's work has the most visibility in peace / security research?

Q.9

Would you have recommendations / suggestions?

Q.10

Please indicate on a scale of 1 to 4, 1 being the weakest, how high you rate the different aspects of the institute's work

	1	2	3	4
Profile / visibility of the institute in South Africa
Profile / visibility of the institute in other parts of Africa
Profile / visibility of the Institute in other parts of the world
Relevance to the context of the institute's work and approach
Efficiency / impact of the activities
Advantage of being based in South Africa
Cover broad range of issues
Bring forward new analysis

	The website	Short publications	Reports, books	Events	Opinion leader role	Advocacy role
At a national level?
At an African level?
At an international level?