Past Projects

PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (SD) AND EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (ESD): THE ROLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN AFRICA BACKGROUND Arguably, the greatest challenges to sustainable development […]

BACKGROUND The Association of African Universities (AAU) and the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (https://studying-in-canada.org/association-of-universities-and-colleges-of-canada/) are organizations with shared interests and mandates which were […]

Background At a time when investment in human resources has become the cornerstone of national development efforts, and when the emerging globally competitive, knowledge-based economy places […]

INTRODUCTION The project on Improving the Quality and Relevance of University Research within National Innovation Systems in West and Central Africa: the Governance Issues is a […]

The project to map research infrastructure and enhance the resilience of science systems in sub-Saharan Africa was funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) for a […]

Introduction Over the past decade, African higher education institutions, Universities in particular, have been very keen to mainstream gender into their core functions of teaching, learning, […]

Introduction AIDS has become one of the most devastating diseases the world has ever faced, posing serious challenges and undermining broad progress in development as well […]

The Inter-African Universities Scholarship Programme (INTERAF) was the first major program activity of the Association of African Universities. In April 1969 the United States Agency for […]

Background Many African universities often lack the full complement of staff needed to operate their academic programmes. This invariably adversely affects the programmes. In order to […]