# Beyond knowledge transfer: integrating critical evaluation-knowledge translation framework for decolonising global health

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a new framework to improve global health programs by ensuring local communities have more control and ownership.

## Contribution

The novel contribution is an integrated framework combining critical evaluation and knowledge translation to support community-led health initiatives.

## Key findings

- Knowledge translation alone is insufficient without community ownership and power balance.
- The proposed framework reframes capacity building as governance of knowledge and power.
- The framework offers actionable guidance for sustainable, locally led health systems.

## Abstract

Capacity-building programmes for health professionals in low- and middle-income countries often transfer technical knowledge without sufficient attention to community ownership. This suggests knowledge translation alone is insufficient; it must be integrated with critical evaluation to systematically support community participation. Here, we proposes an integrated framework to align knowledge translation with community ownership and balanced power. The framework reframes capacity building programmes as the governance of knowledge, power, and ownership, and provides actionable guidance for more sustainable and locally led systems.