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Africa-focused UNU projects

The United Nations University (UNU) is currently engaged in over 50 projects focused on Africa. Please find below a list of Africa-focused UNU projects. [Stocktaking: October 2011]

  1. 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.

  2. Assessment of the Flow and Driving Forces of Used Electrical and Electronic Equipment into and within Nigeria

  3. Capacity-Building in South Africa, Namibia and Ghana to Create Sustainable, Non-Food Bio-Oil Supply Chains

    The European Union (EU) and African partners are collaborating to build sustainable non-food renewable bio-oil supply chains for providing combined heat and power (CHP) electricity, and in the future, the chemical feedstocks needed to replace fossil fuels.

  4. Climate Change, Hydro-conflicts and Human Security (CLICO)

    The project is investigating whether hydro-climatic hazards such as droughts and floods exacerbate social tensions, intra- and inter-state conflicts in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Sahel, or if they provide a catalyst for cooperation and peace.

  5. Climate Change in Africa

  6. Development Electronic Governance in Cameroon (EGOV.CM)

    The aim of each project is to build the competence of local institutions and their partners for developing electronic governance strategies and programmes, as well as to contribute to the required institutional frameworks and implementation capacity for executing and sustaining the developed programmes.

  7. Development Strategy and Climate Change/Climate Change and Mitigation Policy

    This project sets forth a research and capacity-building programme on sustaining economic development in the context of climate change.

  8. Effect of Mining on the Environment and Health in Ghana, with Emphasis on Contamination of Natural Waters in the Obuasi and Tarkwa Areas by Heavy Metals and Arsenic

  9. Energy Saving Technological Progress and Sustainable Development - Programme

    This research aims to investigate the effectiveness of the fiscal instruments to effectively favour investment in the new and cleaner technologies, and to investigate their impact on the GDP.

  10. Enhancing Resilience to Climate and Ecosystem Changes in Semi-Arid Africa: An Integrated Approach (CECAR-Africa)

    The goal of this project is to propose effective and implementable measures to build an integrated resilience enhancement strategy. 

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