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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. 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.

  2. Equitorial Africa Deposition Network

  3. FOSSINA

    The "Impact of Free and Open Source Software for Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa" or FOSSINA is a fellowship research project funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). The aim of the research is to investigate the potential impact of FOSS for sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa.

  4. Human Mobility in the Horn of Africa

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

  5. Knowledge and Capacity Needs Assesment of Stakeholders of Lake Bosumtwi

  6. 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?

  7. Master of Public Health (Hospital Management)

    The MPH programme is building human resource capacity that will have a lasting positive impact on the healthcare system of Sudan.

  8. Network on Regional Integration Studies - NETRIS

    NETRIS aims to establish and coordinate a network of African, Caribbean and Pacific higher education institutions working in the field of (comparative) regional integration.

  9. 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.

  10. The Congo-Brazzaville Initiative

    In 2008, this Initiative was launched when the Republic of Congo requested the United Nations University to provide expertise in the area of disaster risk management and prevention.

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