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Fig 10. Relationship between author affiliations and uptake of findings. There was a significantly higher 
proportion of findings implemented when at least one of the authors of the paper had NGO or government 
affiliations (X
2
=10.8,df=1,p=<0.001). 
This suggests that NGO/government affiliations are important in the implementation of 
research findings. 
4.3.2.2 Funding 
 
Logistic regression of the multiple response question determining the organisation(s) that 
provided 
funding 
for 
the 
research 
showed 
that 
research 
funded 
by 
local 
(z=3.8,df=457,p=<0.001) or international (z=2.78,df=457,p=0.005) NGOs, and a government 

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body within the study region (z=2.78,df=457,p=0.01) were all positively correlated with 
uptake of findings (and therefore used in further analysis). Research funded by government 
bodies in a different region and academic institutions had a non-significant negative 
correlation.
4.3.2.3 Geographical determinants 
Although there was no significant impact of the location of the study by continent (fig. 11(a)), 
the levels of implementation if the study was based in a developed country (according to 
United Nations (UN) classifications (UN, 2005)) rather than developing were marginally 
higher (fig. 11 (b)) which would perhaps be expected given the lower capacity of these 
countries. 
Fig 11. (a) Proportion of findings implemented in relation to continent of study. Although there were lower 
levels of implementation in Africa, Asia, and South America this was not significant. (b) The relationship 
between status of the country of study and uptake of findings. There was a slightly lower proportion of