This project creates the authorization for capacity building support to develop and manage the Livestock Vaccine Innovation Fund (LVIF).
Poor soil fertility and land degradation result in low production yields and quality for indigenous vegetables in West Africa. This project will address the challenges to improve vegetable production through fertilizer innovations.
In 2010, Kenya reformed its constitution and introduced greater decentralization of powers to lower levels of government.
This funding will help strengthen the Institute for Policy Analysis and Research's (IPAR-Rwanda) role as a credible public policy institution in Rwanda by enhancing its ability to provide high-quality, influential, and policy-relevant research.
Sub-Saharan Africa is undergoing a transition related to disease epidemics. The region now faces a "double burden" of disease.
Alcohol is one of the key risk factors for the exceptionally high levels of interpersonal violence in South Africa's Western Cape Province. It is also an important contributor to disease.
New research will explore the potential of community participation in Uganda and South Africa to address inequities in health and promote health governance systems that give voice to the poorest and most marginalized.
Rates of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in South Africa are rising and the country's health system is ill-equipped to manage the problem.
African research has yet to recover from the structural adjustment programs of the 1980s and 1990s, when budget cuts dramatically reduced the capacity of universities to invest in research and development.
There is a disparity between the representation of northern and southern researchers in the literature pertaining to information studies, particularly information and communication for development (ICT4D) research.