The immediate aim of this project is thus to strengthen the capacity of the universities to play a role in governance and policy fields by addressing relevant development problems, such as the borderland issues. Increasing competence and advocacy on the specific aspects of borderland situations, such as human rights, women rights, rights of marginal borderland groups, environmental concerns as well as human health and general human development concerns is an important part of the process. In order to do this one part of the program is to increase capacities within the three national universities in teaching and research and making their working conditions more attractive by improving physical infrastructure and making resources available for fieldwork, publications and international networking. Improving the working environment will help to retain the university trained manpower.
Intended outcomes:
1. Improved gender sensitive teaching and research capacity on borderland issues of anthropology departments in three universities, Khartoum, Addis and Makerere.
2. Strengthened regional capacity through collaboration between the three universities
3. Strengthened link between universities and various processes of public policy formulation around borderland issues.
4. Improved departmental infrastructure
| First name | Last name | Gender | Rank | Affiliated Institution | Country |
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| Munzoul | Assal | Male | Full Professor | University of Khartoum | Sudan |
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Bio: Munzoul Assal is professor of social anthropology and Director, Peace Research Institute, University of Khartoum. His interests include refugee and migration studies, citizenship and development. His current project is "Borderlands dynamics: anthropological capacity building in East African Universities." |
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Scientific field
Sociology & Anthropology
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Start Year2014
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End Year 2019
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