Knowledge Creation for Africa
UNU Activities in and on Africa
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Through its global network of research and training centres and programmes, UNU carries out activities in and on Africa which focus on research, policies studies, capacity development and dissemination.
UNU activities in and on Africa aim to foster knowledge creation with a strong emphasis on home-grown and participatory “made-to-fit” solutions linked to UNU’s continuing efforts to promote endogenous capacity development.
Agriculture
- Integrating GIS and remote sensing to assess the rate, causes and impact of land cover changes in the regions of Ghana (UNU-ISP)
- Suitability of carbonate rocks (UNU-INRA)
Completed:
- Sustainable land management in Ghana (UNU-ISP)
- China-Africa: new types of exchange (UNU-ISP)
- Flower exports (UNU-MERIT)
- Promotion of use of agricultural lime (UNU-INRA)
- “Pro-poor” innovation strategies (UNU-MERIT)
- Process monitoring, policy dialogue and interactive learning activities for IGAD livestock policy (UNU-MERIT)
- Building innovation capacity: drought and livestock disease emergencies in IGAD region (UNU-MERIT)
- Innovation response capacity in East Africa (UNU-MERIT)
- Trajectory of Nerica rice in West Africa (UNU-MERIT)
- UNU-MERIT Learning, Innovation and Knowledge (LINK) training programme (UNU-MERIT)
Development
- Africa Series (UNU-FNP, UNU-ONY)
- UNU-WIDER Ph.D. internship and sabbatical programmes (UNU-WIDER)
- Employment Generation (UNU-MERIT)
- IT Training (UNU-MERIT)
- UNU-IAS Fellowship Programme (UNU-IAS)
- Africa Strategy (UNU-ViE)
- Gemmology Course (UNU-INRA)
- Entrepreneurship research in Uganda (UNU-MERIT)
- UNU Conversation Series on Africa (UNU-ONY)
- Socioeconomic and environmental impact of biofuels in developing countries (UNU-IAS)
Completed:
- Impact of the global economic crisis on Africa (UNU-WIDER)
- Entrepreneurship in Africa (UNU-WIDER)
- African development: Myths and realities (UNU-WIDER)
- Overcoming Fragility in Africa (UNU-WIDER)
- Footwear enterprise development (UNU-MERIT)
- Micro-based evidence research (UNU-MERIT)
- UNU-WIDER short-duration training courses on microsimulation (part of the project entitled “Designing Africa’s Poverty Strategies for Policy Simulation”) (UNU-WIDER)
- Designing Africa’s poverty strategies (UNU-WIDER)
- Impact of globalization on world’s poor (UNU-WIDER)
- Gender and food security (UNU-WIDER)
- Southern engines of global growth (UNU-WIDER)
- National Human Development Report 2006, Liberia (UNU-ISP)
- Regulation of private security sector (UNU-ISP)
- The Secretary-General’s Report (2008) (UNU-ONY)
- Threshold 21 Model (UNU-ViE)
Education
- Education for Sustainable Development in Africa (UNU-ISP, UNU-INRA)
- E-learning laboratory at the University of Yaoundé I (UNU-ViE)
- E-learning for Integrated Watershed Management (UNU-ViE)
- Regional Centres of Expertise on ESD ((UNU-IAS)
- UNU-IAS Internship Programme (UNU-IAS)
- Workshop series on challenges and perspectives in African higher education (UNU-ViE)
Completed:
- Innovative centre on education support for Africa (UNU Office of the Rector)
- E-learning in Higher Education (UNU-ViE)
- E-Learning in African higher education – implications and consequences (UNU-ViE)
- Open symposium - The Role of Universities in the Promotion of Education for Sustainable Development in Africa (ESDA) (UNU-IAS)
- Open educational resources for agricultural higher education in Eastern and Southern Africa (UNU-EHS)
- E-Learning readiness survey of agricultural faculty members in Africa (UNU-EHS)
Environment
- International satoyama initiative (UNU-IAS)
- 2011 StEP General Assembly (UNU-ISP)
- E-waste management forum: green business opportunities (UNU-ISP)
- UNU cooperation unit for Southern Africa (UNU-EHS)
- UNU-EHS Ph.D. and internship programmes (UNU-EHS)
- New for Old Donations in Tanzania (UNU-ViE, UNU-EHS)
- Summer School on e-waste management (UNU-ViE, UNU-EHS)
- Establishing a disaster risk management system in cooperation with the government of Congo Brazzaville (UNU-ViE)
- South Africa Sub-Global Assessment (UNU-IAS)
Completed:
- GMF transatlantic study team on climate change and migration (UNU-EHS)
- First workshop on climate-induced migration and displacement in MENA (UNU-EHS)
- International Expert Workshop on E-waste (UNU-ViE, UNU-EHS)
- Environmental change and forced migration scenarios (UNU-EHS)
- Biodiplomacy (UNU-IAS)
- E-waste management in Africa (UNU-ViE, UNU-EHS)
- Sustainable Innovation and Technology Transfer (UNU-ViE, UNU-EHS)
- E-waste Management Forum (UNU-ViE, UNU-EHS)
Governance and International Justice
- Peacebuilding and reconciliation in conflicted societies: Partnership for research and capacity building (UNU-ISP)
- The responsibility to protect and the problem of the Kin-State (UNU-ISP)
- Transnational corporations, human rights, and environmental justice in developing counties (UNU-ISP)
- Enhancing human security through developing local capacity for holistic community-based conflict prevention in northern Ghana (UNU-ISP)
Completed:
- Engaging civil society (UNU-ISP)
- Democracy in the global south (UNU-ISP)
- International law in a time of change (UNU-ISP)
- Justice for international crimes in Africa (UNU-ISP)
- Fragility and development (UNU-WIDER)
- Researching conflict in Africa (UNU-ISP)
- Humanitarian diplomacy (UNU-ISP)
- After mass crime (UNU-ISP)
- FDI in zones of conflict (UNU-ISP)
- Unintended consequences of peacekeeping operations (UNU-ISP)
- Atrocities and international accountability (UNU-ISP)
- Tokyo peacebuilders symposium (UNU-ISP)
- UNU-Cornell Africa Series (UNU-CRIS, UNU-ONY, UNU-FNP)
- Is the EU's governance 'good'?: An assessment of EU governance in its partnership with ACP States (UNU-CRIS)
Health and Nutrition
- Review of graduate training in international nutrition (UNU-FNP)
- African Nutrition Leadership Programme (UNU-FNP)
- Programme de Leadership Africain en Nutrition (UNU-FNP)
- Master’s: Hospital Management (UNU-IIGH)
- Health Financing Reform (UNU-IIGH)
- Open Source Software Training Programme (UNU-IIGH)
- Safe water, safe women, safe health (UNU-INWEH)
- Master of Public Health Programme in Sudan (UNU-IIGH)
- Capacity building on management of social health insurance scheme of Sudan (UNU-IIGH)
- Short course in health sector reform (UNU-IIIGH)
Completed:
- Support for Master’s Programmes (UNU-IIGH)
- Research on Health Innovation Systems in Africa (ATPS) (UNU-MERIT)
- South African nutrition capacity development initiative (SANCADI) (UNU-FNP)
- Second International Conference on Rural Medicine (UNU-IIGH)
HIV/AIDS
Completed:
- Economic evaluation and cost effectiveness of intervention and prevention programmes of HIV/AIDS with Botswana Training Authority (BOTA) (UNU-IIGH)
- Conference on “Policy Challenges for the Management of HIV/AIDS in the Armed Forces”, South Africa (UNU-ISP)
- HIV/AIDS and the security sector in Africa (UNU-ISP)
Peace, Security and Human Rights
- Gender violence and conflict (UNU-ISP)
Completed:
- New perspectives on liberal peacebuilding (UNU-ISP)
- Gender and small arms (UNU-ISP)
- Expert roundtable: The African Union Peace and Security Council (UNU-ISP)
Regional Integration
- Network for Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS)
- The Role of Identity in Conflict or Peace (UNU-CRIS)
Completed:
- Economic partnership agreements (UNU-CRIS)
- MIC-MAC research project (UNU-CRIS)
- Research on African regionalism (UNU-CRIS)
- European Union and the global South (UNU-CRIS)
- Monitoring regional integration (UNU-CRIS)
- UNU-CRIS Ph.D. internship programme (UNU-CRIS)
- World Reports on Regional Integration (UNU-CRIS)
- Intervention in conflict (UNU-CRIS)
- Lake Victoria research project (UNU-CRIS)
Science, Technology and Energy
- Millennium development short courses (UNU-GTP)
- MSc and PhD programmes (UNU-GTP)
- Geothermal training in Iceland (UNU-GTP)
- Biotechnology in sustainable agriculture and climate change mitigation (UNU-IAS)
- Impact of free and open source software for sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa (UNU-IAS)
- ICT@innovation (UNU-MERIT)
- Internationalisation strategy of the BMBF (UNU-ViE)
- UNU-MERIT Ph.D. and M.Phil. study programme (UNU-MERIT)
- UNU-MERIT training programme (UNU-MERIT)
- Hydrogen Fuel Cell Project (UNU-MERIT)
- Web of Metals (UNU-ViE)
- Research and training support to build African capacity in science, technology and innovation indicators (UNU-MERIT)
Completed:
- Exchange programmes (UNU-ViE)
- FLOSSInclude (UNU-MERIT)
- Technological and economic catch up (UNU-MERIT)
- Hydrogen fuel cells and alternatives (UNU-MERIT)
- FLOSSWorld (UNU-MERIT)
- OpenCourseWare (UNU-MERIT)
- G8-AMCOST dialogue: Science policy (UNU-ViE)
- TICAD IV (UNU-IAS)
- Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing (UNU-INRA)
- Geoportal and Database (UNU-INRA)
- ET Estimation using Landsat Images (UNU-INRA)
Urbanization
- There are currently no ongoing projects in this category.
Completed:
- Development in an urban world (UNU-WIDER)
- Urban training programme (UNU-EHS)
- Risk and Disaster Management Training for Urban Planning (UNU-ViE)
Water and Desertification
- Sustainable management of marginal drylands (SUMAMAD) (UNU-INWEH)
- Sustainable management of marginal drylands (SUMAMAD) (UNU-INWEH)
- Water Virtual Learning Center (UNU-INWEH)
- Solutions to polluted lake-shore drinking water (UNU-INWEH)
- Integrated management, African and Laurentian Great Lakes (UNU-INWEH)
- Climate change, hydro-conflicts and human security (CLICO) (UNU-EHS)
Completed:
- Transboundary water resources governance (UNU-INWEH)
- Ground water and human security: Case studies (UNU-INWEH)
- Quo Vadis aquifers programme (UNU-EHS)
- Ground water and human security (UNU-INWEH)
- Water Governance in the context of Local Water Disputes (UNU-EHS)
- From water law to the human right to water (UNU-EHS)
- Introduction to MIKE-BASIN/WEAP (UNU-INRA)
- Water Movement and Solute Transport in the Vadose Zone (UNU-INRA)
- Training the M³ WATER Model (UNU-INRA)
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