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INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATIONat the Department of International Environment and
Development Studies (Noragric)
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Institutional partnerships
Through institutional partnerships Noragric maintains and develops the relevancy of its research and education in addressing local and global environment and development issues with focus on low and medium income countries.
Activities include joint research, joint education activities, staff and student exchange and capacity building.
Some of Noragric’s institutional partnerships are presented in the following slides.
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Ethiopia: Hawassa University and Mekelle University
Research activities with Hawassa University started in 1988. The current programme with both Hawassa and Mekelle University started in 1999 and has been implemented in two 5-years phases. The third five-years phase is expected to start in 2009
The cooperation encompasses e.g.: Crop science
Environmental rehabilitation and ecology
Soil and water sciences including irrigation
Veterinary sciences
Animal science
Limnology and fisheries
Biodiversity and genetic resources
Social sciences
Food safety
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Malawi: University of Malawi, Bunda College of Agriculture
Joint activities related to the ‘Support to Bunda College Capacity Building Programme’ phase III (2006-2010):
Exchange of staff and students
Advice and support to institutional development including library development at Bunda College
Joint monitoring and evaluation of the programme
Collaboration under the ‘Malawi Agricultural Research and Development Fund (2006-2010):
Joint development and implementation of collaborative research and outreach projects
Participatory monitoring and evaluation of the programme
Joint publication and dissemination of knowledge
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Sudan: University of Juba and Upper Nile University
Type: Capacity development, research
Financed by: NUCOOP (under SIU), (2007-2011)
Coordinator: Dr. Trygve Berg
The civil war in the Sudan was brought to an end with the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). One of the articles in the CPA requires the moving of the southern Sudanese universities from Khartoum to their ‘homes bases’ in the south.
NUCOOP is a SiU-administered programme to support this process and shall in the case of NORAGRIC’s collaboration with University of Juba and Upper Nile University be used on:
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Juba and Upper Nile Universities (cont.)
Capacity building
– Minisabathicals for senior staff
– PhD research
– MSc-stipends
Research collaboration
– Post-war revival of rural livelihood including
• Management of war related environmental degradation
• Wildlife-community conflicts
• Returnees and post-war conflict management
• Plant genetic resources
• Livestock and range management
Institution building
• Academic books
• Animal science laboratory
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Juba and Upper Nile Universities (cont.)
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Renk campus
Malakal campus
Upper Nile University
Juba University
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Tanzania: Sokoine University of Agriculture
1973: Cooperation with Sokoine University of Agriculture started with a BSc programme in forestry
1996: Broad cooperation agreement at university level
2000-2005: Food Security and Household Income for Small-holder Farmers in Tanzania (TARPII-SUA)
2005-2009: Programme for Agricultural and Natural Resources Transformation for Improved Livelihoods (PANTIL)
PANTIL:
22 researchers from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB), Norwegian School of Veterinary Science (NVH) and the Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research (Bioforsk) participate in 19 applied research projects
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Tanzania: University of Dar es Salaam
The Institute of Marine Sciences is the focal point of the cooperation at the University of Dar es Salaam.
Objectives: Joint research programmes on marine and coastal natural
resource management
Competence building within both institutions
Enhance cooperation with other institutions in East Africa;
• address:
rights and development aspirations of local coastal communities
environmental issues including biodiversity conservation
social issues including gender equality
Disseminate knowledge from cooperative efforts
A new programme addressing climate change is in the pipeline
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Uganda: Makerere University
The current activity is focused on Makerere University’s role as one of the two hosts for the third semester of Noragric’s MSc programme in International Environmental Studies.
Under this activity Makerere University:
takes part in curriculum development
teaches a 15 credits course
hosts UMB’s students at Makerere University’s campus and provides logistical support
provides supervision for students conducting fieldwork in Uganda
provides teaching and reading facilities for students and visiting Noragric staff
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Conservation Farming Unit (CFU) of Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU)
Conservation agriculture is a set of crop husbandry practices characterised by retention of crop residues, minimum tillage, land preparation in the dry season, early and continuous weeding, crop rotation, intercropping, and agroforestry.
The Conservation Agriculture Project (CAP) provides training on conservation agriculture to 120,000 farmers.
Noragric’s role in CAP is: to measure project impacts on target beneficiaries
to assist in measuring project outputs
to assess effects of institutional networking and evaluation
to provide technical advice on monitoring and evaluation
to build local capacity on monitoring and evaluation.
More about the project Conservation Farming Unit of Zambia
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Nepal: Tribhuvan University
The current activity is focused on Tribhuvan University’s role as one of the two hosts for the third semester of Noragric’s MSc programme in International Environmental Studies.
Under this activity Tribhuvan University: takes part in curriculum development
teaches a 15 credits course
hosts UMB’s students at Makerere University’s campus and provides logistical support
provides supervision for students conducting fieldwork in Nepal
provides teaching andreading facilities for students and visiting Noragric staff Noragric PhD student Mohamed Ali Guyo (left) together with
Dr. Saubhagya Shah, the Post-Graduate Course Coordinator, Centre for Conflict, Peace and Development, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
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Pakistan: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT)
Collaboration with CIIT began in 2006 at the campus in Abbottabad, with the Departments of Environmental Sciences and Development Studies.
Activities include curriculum development, joint advising, joint research, and staff and student exchange.
Topics include resource management and agriculture, sustainable water and sanitation, post-earthquake recovery, and poverty alleviation.
Recently (2008) an international MSc programme was developed by UMB, CIIT and Tribhuvan University (Nepal) in Sustainable Water, Sanitation, Health and Development.
Additional programmes with CIIT are under development to support research and education activities in Afghanistan.
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South-Eastern Europe: Cooperation with universities in Western Balkan Albania:
• Agricultural University of Tirana
Bosnia and Herzegovina:
• University of Banja Luka, University of Mostar, University ‘Dz.B.’ of Mostar and University of Sarajevo
Croatia:
• J.J.S. University of Osijek , University of Zadar
Kosovo:
• University of Pristina
Macedonia:
• University of S.C. & M. of Skopje
Montenegro:
• University of Montenegro
Serbia:
• University of Belgrade and University of Novi Sad
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South-Eastern Europe: Cooperation with universities in Western Balkan
Cooperating institutions in Norway:
Norwegian University of Life Sciences:
• Dept of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences
• Dept of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science
• Dept of Ecology and Natural Resource Management
• Dept of Plant and Environmental Sciences
• Dept of Economics and Resource Management
• Dept of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric)
Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute
Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research