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Received: 17 July 2018

Accepted: 8 April 2019

First Online: 24 April 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: This was a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) exercise conducted by the fund-governing agency to assess organisational performance and funding impact within Ministry of Health Malaysia. In this exercise, the funder required detailed feedback from recipients of the research fund. Stakeholders were solicited as part of the engagement process to address their research needs. The undertaking of CHNRI exercises do not usually involve the request for formal ethics review as it does not involve individual sensitive data [] and this was practised in Malaysia. This M&E was registered in the National Medical Research Register of Malaysia [] (NMRR-18-1078-42046).

: Not applicable.

: SS, RAS, SAI, SHM and SM were involved in NIH Malaysia’s fund governance. All remaining authors confirm they have no competing interests.

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