One of the distinguishing features of IR is the importance of involving implementers in all aspects of the research process. Researchers worked with the programme implementers of an insurance scheme in India, the Rajiv Aarogyasri Scheme (RAS), in the state of undivided Andhra Pradesh. One of the objectives of the collaboration was to identify research questions that could serve as a guide for an evaluation of the RAS. Meetings were held over a period of one year to identify appropriate research questions. The results of this collaboration were compared with those published in the literature on evaluations of insurance programmes in other low- and middle-income countries. The results showed great disparity in the types of questions that were generated through the collaboration and those that were published in literature. Whereas in the published literature, 60% of the research questions pertained to the output/outcome of the programme and the remaining 40% related to processes and inputs, in the RAS participatory research process, 81% of the questions generated looked at programme input/processes, and only 19% on outputs and outcomes. The study therefore concluded the implementation research approach of involving implementers can lead to a substantively different emphasis of research questions, which are more relevant to the research needs of policy-makers, and therefore contribute to greater translation of the research findings.¹⁵