Knowledge Creation for Africa
UNU Activities in and on Africa
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
- “Pro-poor” innovation strategies in the agricultural and rural sectors (UNU-MERIT)
- Process monitoring, policy dialogue and interactive learning activities for the IGAD livestock policy initiative in Eastern Africa (UNU-MERIT)
- Building innovation capacity: Adapting and responding to drought and livestock disease emergencies in the IGAD region (Eastern Africa) (UNU-MERIT)
- Innovation response capacity in East Africa (UNU-MERIT)
- Lessons from self-organizing systems of innovation: The trajectory of Nerica rice in West Africa (UNU-MERIT)
Agriculture: Capacity Development
Development
- Africa Series (UNU-FNP, UNU-ONY)
- The impact of globalization on the world’s poor (UNU-WIDER)
- Gender and food security (UNU-WIDER)
- Southern engines of global growth: China, India, Brazil and South Africa (UNU-WIDER)
- Designing Africa’s poverty strategies for policy simulation (UNU-WIDER)
- African development: Myths and realities (UNU-WIDER)
- National Human Development Report 2006, Liberia (UNU Peace and Governance Programme)
- Regulation of private security sector in Africa (UNU Peace and Governance Programme)
- The Secretary-General’s Report (2008) on “Africa’s development needs: state of implementation of various commitments, challenges and the way forward” (UNU-ONY)
Development: Capacity Development
- UNU-WIDER Ph.D. internship and sabbatical programmes (UNU-WIDER)
- UNU-WIDER short-duration training courses on microsimulation (part of the project entitled “Designing Africa’s Poverty Strategies for Policy Simulation”) (UNU-WIDER)
Education
- Innovative centre on education support for Africa (UNU Office of the Rector)
Education: Capacity Development
- UNU Vice Rectorate in Europe (UNU-ViE)
Environment
- United Nations University cooperation unit for Southern Africa (UNU-EHS)
- Environmental change and forced migration scenarios (EACH-FOR) in Africa (UNU-EHS)
Environment: Capacity Development
- Ph.D. and Internship Programmes at UNU-EHS (UNU-EHS)
- United Nations University cooperation unit for Southern Africa (UNU-EHS)
Governance and International Justice
- Fragility and development (UNU-WIDER)
- Researching conflict in Africa: Insights and experiences (UNU Peace and Governance Programme)
- Humanitarian diplomacy: Practitioners and their craft (UNU Peace and Governance Programme)
- After mass crime: Rebuilding states and communities (UNU Peace and Governance Programme)
- Economic and legal tools to promote foreign direct investment in zones of conflict (UNU Peace and Governance Programme)
- Unintended consequences of peacekeeping operations (UNU Peace and Governance Programme)
- Atrocities and international accountability (UNU Peace and Governance Programme)
- Developing capacity to achieve justice for international crimes in Africa (UNU Peace and Governance Programme)
- Tokyo peacebuilders symposium (UNU Peace and Governance Programme)
Govenance and International Justice: Capacity Development
- Peacebuilding and reconciliation in conflicted societies: Partnership for research and capacity building (UNU Peace and Governance Programme)
Health and Nutrition
- Review of graduate training in international nutrition (UNU-FNP)
- Research on health innovation systems in Africa (ATPS): Building national systems of innovation in the health biotechnology sector (UNU-MERIT)
Health and Nutrition: Capacity Development
- South African nutrition capacity development initiative (SANCADI) (UNU-FNP)
- Support for the implementation of Master's degree in Public Health (Hospital Management) and Master's degree in Business Administration (Hospital Management) with Ministry of Health, Sudan and University of Medical Sciences and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan (UNU-IIGH)
HIV/AIDS
- Conference on “Policy Challenges for the Management of HIV/AIDS in the Armed Forces”, South Africa (UNU Peace and Governance Programme)
- Economic evaluation and cost effectiveness of intervention and prevention programmes of HIV/AIDS with Botswana Training Authority (BOTA) (UNU-IIGH)
Regional Integration
- Research on African regionalism (UNU-CRIS)
- Research on the European Union and the global South (UNU-CRIS)
- Monitoring regional integration in the South (UNU-CRIS)
- World Reports on Regional Integration (UNU-CRIS)
- MIC-MAC research project (UNU-CRIS)
- Research project on why African regional organizations intervene in conflict (UNU-CRIS)
- Lake Victoria research project (UNU-CRIS)
Regional Integration: Capacity Development
- UNU-CRIS Ph.D. internship programme (UNU-CRIS)
- Economic partnership agreements and their impact on employment and labour market policies (UNU-CRIS)
Science, Technology and Energy
- Research on hydrogen fuel cells and alternatives in the transport and energy sectors: Policy issues for developing countries (UNU-MERIT)
- Programme of study of the processes involved in technological and economic catch up (UNU-MERIT)
- FLOSSWorld (Free/libre/open source software: Worldwide impact study) (UNU-MERIT)
- FLOSSInclude (Free/libre/open source software) (UNU-MERIT)
- G8-AMCOST dialogue: Science policy advice support to the German government and the Heiligendamm process (UNU-ViE)
- Science policy advice for the implementation of the internationalisation strategy of the BMBF (UNU-ViE)
Science, Technology and Energy: Capacity Development
- UNU-MERIT Ph.D. study programmes and M.Phil. Study Programme (UNU-MERIT)
- UNU-MERIT training programme for policymakers in the design and evaluation of innovation policy (DEIP) (UNU-MERIT)
- UNU-MERIT and UNU Open Courseware project (UNU-MERIT)
- Exchange programmes to promote capacity building for policy relevant science and technology management (UNU-ViE)
Urbanization
- Development in an urban world (UNU-WIDER)
Urbanization: Capacity Development
- Urban training programme (UNU-EHS)
Water and Desertification
- Sustainable management of marginal drylands (SUMAMAD) (UNU-INWEH)
- Ground water and human security: Case studies (GWAHS-CS) (UNU-INWEH)
- Quo Vadis aquifers (QVA) programme, groundwater and human security: Case studies (GWAHS-CS) (UNU-EHS)
- From water law to the human right to water (UNU-EHS)
Water and Desertification: Capacity Development
- Ground water and human security: Case studies (GWAHS-CS) (UNU-INWEH)
- Sustainable management of marginal drylands (SUMAMAD) (UNU-INWEH)
- Water Virtual Learning Center, UNU International Network on Water Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH)
- Regional dialogue and twinning to improve transboundary water resources governance in Africa (UNU-INWEH)
- Finding solutions to polluted lake-shore drinking water in rural African communities: Women, community learning and appropriate technology (UNU-INWEH)
- Bridging continents, building health, benefitting communities: integrated management of safe water in near shore communities in the African and Laurentian Great Lakes (UNU-INWEH)
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