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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. Economic Development, Education & E-learning, ICT

  3. 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.

  4. Evaluation of Development Programmes in Nutrition and Health

    This research seeks to assess the impact of school feeding and deworming (as a package of programmes or multiple treatments) on school performance (test scores), retention (drop-out rates) and repetition rates, while elaborating on the determinants of school performance.

  5. Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) Scientific Advisory Committee

    The core business of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) is to conduct large-scale, policy-relevant, social-scientific projects for public-sector users, non-governmental organizations and international development agencies. We do this in partnership with researchers globally, but specifically in Africa.

  6. ict@innovation Framework Programme

    ict@innovation is an African capacity-building programme, which supports small and medium IT-enterprises and aims to encourage the growth of African ICT industries.

  7. Innovation in Informal Sectors

  8. IS Academy on Migration and Development

    The main objectiveof the IS Academie is to strengthen the quality of policies in the area of development cooperation through the interaction between policymakers and academia.

  9. 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?

  10. Project, Research and Training Support to NEPAD’s African Science, Technology & Innovation Indicators Initiative (ASTII)

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