Round 2
- Mozambique Cooperative Optometric Training Scheme: Sustainable Solutions to Community Health and Poverty Using Existing Irish Expertise in Optometry Programme Delivery
- Dublin Institute of Technology
This unique collaboration initiates a programme for development, implementation and evaluation of a regional optometry initiative for Lusophone Africa. The programme has been tailored to have maximum impact by producing a high volume of graduate optometric technicians, optometrists and vision researchers. Projected outcomes will include an integrated programme of optometric education and vision-care services delivery, a focussed (needs driven) research infrastructure that feeds into national development policies and crucially, the establishment of a successful, energetic and dedicated mutual-learning network equipped with the specialist knowledge envisaged to provide sustainable solutions consistent with Irish Aid thematic priorities. http://www.dit.ie/mozambique-eyecare/
- Water is Life: Amazzi bulamu
- Dundalk Institute of Technology
The aim of this programme is to support sustainable water resource management as a catalyst for sustainable economic and social development. The economic, social and technical pillars of sustainability are cross-cut by the issue of safe water provision. This programme, aims to research and learn from activities in each of these areas and measure their impact through health and development in Uganda, with the overall aim of sustainable poverty reduction. This programme is designed to develop collaborative research through a partnership comprising DkIT, DCU, NUIM, UCD, TCD, DIT, RCSI, QUB, Makerere University and NGOs. www.dkit.ie/waterislife
- Doctoral Training for Development in Africa
- Trinity College Dublin
Through collaborative delivery, with African partners, of doctoral training, this programme will help strengthen higher education in and for Africa. Structured learning from this experience will lay the foundations for further expansion of collaborative research and advanced training to additional disciplines and especially to involve more partners, Irish and African. Resources are being applied to fostering these partnerships, and to energizing and facilitating a further shift of research and education activity towards addressing Irish Aid’s priorities.http://www.tcd.ie/tidi
- Building Capacity for Collaboration.
- Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (awarded a networking grant)
The broad aim of the project is to foster and facilitate collaboration among Irish Institutes of Technology and Higher Education (HE) sectors in Zambia , Malawi , Tanzania and Lesotho. The collaboration aims to support the development of sustainable HE capacity in each country, in accordance with their individual needs. In particular: · To strenghten teaching, learning and applied research capacity; · To support the development of institutional diversity. This project will start the process of building sustainable relationships by researching existing capacity and needs in each of the four countries and disseminating this knowledge as a basis for developing collaborative partnerships.
- Strategic training and research initiatives on good governance and development in fragile states in Africa.
- Kimmage Development Studies Centre (awarded a networking grant)
This project envisages the establishment of a vibrant knowledge exchange network between compatible, development orientated, and research focused institutions in Ireland and in Africa. In pursuit of this aim, the network will explore ways in which new and existing relationships between the named partners can be consolidated in order to effect genuine and meaningful collaboration in areas of mutual interest. In particular the intended group of partner institutions and other organisations are keen to develop strategic educational, training and research initiatives which will begin to address the interrelated issues of conflict transformation, peace building, good governance and sustainable livelihoods in relation to development in fragile states in Africa.
- Networked-Informality
- The National College of Art and Design (awarded a networking grant)
For this networking Grant a number of staff from NCAD and UCD will travel to the city of Lagos, Nigeria to identify potential partners and create collaborative sustainiable programs of research with a view to making a full application for the Programme of Strategic Cooperation between Irish Aid and Higher Education and Research Insitutes (2007-2011 ). The timeline to carry out this research is for 2008. The aims of this project are to: · To identify and develop research on Networked Informality as alternative intelligence and new knowledge in understanding contemporary urbanism. · To develop research collaborations with the School of Architecture UCD Ireland and The School’s of Art and Architecture in Lagos, Nigeria. · To develop collaborative networks, workshops and participatory projects with inhabitants, communities and NGO’s in Lagos. · To develop funded Post Graduate research collaborative programmes across the Art and Design sector.
- Transformative Education to Address Hunger, HIV/AIDS and Climate Change in Africa.
- National University of Ireland, Maynooth (awarded a networking grant)
This proposal will create an alliance of climatologists, plant and animal scientists, health workers, educators and community workers to combat, through targeted education and training, the synergising pressures of hunger, HIV/AIDS and climate change in Africa. This network will enable multi-way knowledge flows between partners, North and South, and engagement with decision-makers and local communities through the African partners. Irish and African groupings will be identified in this network project, together with circumstances with which to create this sustainable transformative education project, for both Ireland and Africa; building the adaptive capacity of Africa to deal with the combined threats.
- Social Partnerships in Sustainable Development
- University of Limerick (awarded a networking grant)
This project will build an international collaborative research network through focusing on the experience of social partnerships in promoting sustainable development in Ireland, Eastern and Southern Africa, in doing so testing the transferability of the Irish model. We will work with African institutions that train officials, educationalists and development workers. The aim of the project is threefold: the generation of a volume of research findings, the construction of a durable intellectual partnership between Irish and African institutions, and, thirdly, the deployment of this partnership to plan a more long term research and training programme.