NORHED I projects 2013-2019

The Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development

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Aim of NORHED:
The aim of the programme is to strengthen capacity of higher education institutions in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC) to educate more and better qualified candidates, and to increase quality and quantity of research conducted by the countries’ own researchers.

Higher education and research are priority areas of Norway’s development cooperation policy. Norad believes that sound, strategic investments in higher education and research in low and middle income countries (LMICs) pay off in the form of strong academic institutions and their societal engagement.

Such investments have many benefits, not least that they contribute to development of their countries’ intellectual resources, competent workforces, visionary leaders, gender equality and human rights. In the long run it also contributes to evidence-based policies and decisions that enhance sustainable economic, social and environmental development in low and middle income countries.
Learn more at the NORHED website.

Researchers from IGS / CIH are involved in 6 NORHED projects, see the list below:

Six areas of focus:

The NORHED programme aims at strengthening the capacity of higher education institutions in low and middle income countries within six identified areas:

Education and training
Health
Natural resource management, climate change and environment
Democratic and economic governance
Humanities, culture, media and communication
Capacity development in South Sudan

SURVIVAL PLUSS

Increasing capacity for Mama-baby survival in post-conflict Uganda and South Sudan.

HI-TRAIN: Better Health Information for better health care

Establishing self-sustainable, replicable and scalable Health Informatics training and research programmes through institutional collaboration in East Africa

GROWNUT - Education and research to reduce malnutrition in the Democratic Republic of Congo

This project aims to create a partnership for higher education and research in nutritional epidemiology in DRC.

Group photo, persons from the project standing on stairs outside

Health at workplace in low income countries

Economic growth and new industries creates new opportunities, but also challenges. Work-related diseases and injuries are increasing.

Doctor Gift Mulima is training to become a specialist general surgeon as part of the NORHED project in Malawi.

Capacity building in postgraduate surgical training and research in Malawi

In Malawi there is only 1 Malawian surgeon per 1, 75 million people, and only 1 female surgeon in the entire Malawi.

Universities to improve maternal health

South Ethiopia Network of Universities in Public Health (SENUPH) aims to improve the health of populations in South Ethiopia, especially on maternal and child health, nutrition and reducing malaria.

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