African Migrants and Remittances

This study aims to promote financial access to migrants by fostering competition in the money transfer market, building partnerships between and among microfinance institutions in ten sub-Saharan African countries and migrant associations across Europe, and providing microfinance institutions in select African counties with the technical assistance to develop more competitive money transfer services.

Equitorial Africa Deposition Network

Geothermal Capacity-Building in Developing Countries

The Geothermal Training Programme of the United Nations University (UNU-GTP) is a postgraduate training programme, aiming at assisting developing countries in capacity-building within geothermal exploration and development.

Human Mobility in the Horn of Africa

Environmental factors are playing an increasing role in the movement of refugees in the Horn of Africa.

Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices and Empowerment (KAPE)

Understanding knowledge, attitudes and practices around water and sanitation and raising awareness about the linkages between water, environment and health in order to empower communities to be able to address their own water-related challenges.

Learning to Compete (L2C): Accelerating Industrial Development in Africa

This project is a comparative, country-based research programme that seeks to answer a seemingly simple but complex question: Why is there so little industry in Africa?

Regional Centres of Expertise for Education for Sustainable Development

A Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) is a network of existing formal, non-formal and informal education organizations, mobilized to deliver education for sustainable development (ESD) to local and regional communities.

Research Project - Social Capital in Uganda

Transboundary Lake Basin Management: Laurentian and African Great Lakes

As part of a larger Global Environment Facility (GEF) project “Regional Dialogue to Improve Transboundary Water Resources Governance in Africa”, UNU-INWEH undertook a comparative study of management approaches by five lake commissions in the African Great Lakes and Laurentian Great Lakes in North America.

Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring Systems Initative (WEMS)

WEMS is an environmental governance project and its objective is to assist monitoring trafficking and illegal wildlife crime through a joint effort carried out by United Nations bodies, national governments, private industries, civil society and research institutions.