Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark

Humanitarian assistance and development

Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark

Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Department of Management, Society and Communication

University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania

Conflict, peace and security

Total grant

12,000,000

Building Stronger Universities III - GU

Thematic focus areas: 1. Transforming Education 2. Rights, Resources and Gender in Post-war Development

2017-10-01

2021-09-30

Uganda

Gulu University (GU), Uganda

Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Aalborg University (AAU), (Danish anchor person)

University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark

University of Ghana (UG), Ghana

Total grant

10,000,000

Climate smart cocoa systems for Ghana (CLIMCOCOA)

Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is the third highest export commodity of Ghana and represents the most important source of revenue for numerous small scale farmers. Climate change (CC) in the form of…

2016-06-01

2020-11-30

Ghana

Agricultural production

Climate change

University of Ghana (UG), Office of Research, Innovation and Development (ORID)

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ghana

World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Kenya

https://www.ug.edu.gh/geography-climcocoa/node/5

Total grant

9,990,278

Informal worker organisation and social protection

This project will investigate emerging collective forms of informal worker organisation in the Global South (focusing on Kenya and Tanzania) and their implications for social protection. Rather than…

2016-04-15

2020-07-31

Production, industry and labour market

Roskilde University (RUC), Department of Society and Globalisation

University of Nairobi (UoN), Institute for Development Studies

Mzumbe University (MU), Institute of Development Studies

Total grant

9,898,063

https://ruc.dk/informal-worker-organisation-and-social-protection

Hierarchies of Rights: Land and Investments in Africa

The main aim of the research program is to analyse how struggles related to large-scale investments into natural resources affect small-holders’ rights to land in Sub-Saharan Africa. It tests the…

2015-01-01

2020-03-31

Mozambique

Roskilde University (RUC), Department of Society and Globalisation

University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Institute of Resource Assessment (IRA)

University of Eduardo Mondlane, Dept. of Political Science and Public Administration, Mozambique

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark

Total grant

9,969,902

https://ruc.dk/en/research-project/hierarchies-rights

Governing economic hubs and flows in Somali East Africa

This research and capacity-building project contributes to a better understanding of key economic and political processes that have shaped state formation in the Somali territories since 1991. The…

2014-01-01

2019-12-31

Economic development and value chains

Conflict, peace and security

Roskilde University (RUC), Department of Society and Globalisation

Forum for Social Studies, Ethiopia

University of Hargeisa, Somaliland, Somalia

University of Nairobi (UoN), Kenya

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark

Total grant

9,963,719

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REDD+, -the forest grab of all times?

Forests play an important role for the livelihoods of poor people in developing countries. Yet, the poor often lack legal rights to the forest resources that they depend on. This renders them highly…

2014-01-01

2018-12-31

Indonesia

University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Faculty of Science

University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Faculty of Science, Department of Food and Resource Economics

Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Department of Forest Resources Conservation, Indonesia

Vietnam National University of Agriculture (VNUA), Vietnam

Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Cultural Studies (ICS), Vietnam

http://www.ifro.ku.dk/reddplus

Total grant

8,994,436

Social and Environmental Resilience in Upland Areas of Vietnam. Responses in Land Use and Livelihood Strategies

The proposed PhD-research addresses the issue of vulnerability in relation to climate change in upland areas of Vietnam and views vulnerability and resilience as determinants of adaptive capacity. The…

2009-09-01

2015-08-15

Climate change

Roskilde University (RUC), Department of Society and Globalisation

Total grant

2,505,553

Spatial Distribution and Characteristics of Surface Sampled Plastic Debris in the Southwest Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is considered one of the world marine systems with high levels of plastic pollution emanating from both land- and sea-based activities. As one of the most common and persistent…

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2015-08-01

No thematic areas specified

A Comparative Fate Study of the Diesel Associated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Polychaete Worm, Marphysa Macintoshi in Coastal Sediment: Combined Field and Laboratory Experiments.

Abstract: The level and fate of diesel oil-associated pollution in coastal marine sediment was investigated along the coastline of Chake-Chake bay at Wesha, Pemba, in Zanzibar-Tanzania; following a…

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2015-08-01

No thematic areas specified

The virtuous spirals of Village Savings and Loaning Associations for poverty alleviation through women empowerment: Case studies from Webuye and Mount Elgon constituencies in Kenya

Abstract: Microfinance institutions in Kenya have been criticized for neglecting the financial needs of the poor populations, and this has questioned their credibility as poverty alleviation tools. In…

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2015-07-14

No thematic areas specified

Reassembling the Kenyan Security Sector: The Role of Civil Society Organizations in Security Governance

Abstract: This thesis examines how several Kenyan civil society organizations (CSOs) are involved in the security sector reforms (SSR) process that was initiated after the post-election violence of…

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2015-07-14

No thematic areas specified

What Drives Commercial Microfinance Institutions into Bankruptcy in Ghana?

The mountain of criticisms leveled against the microfinance project is largely founded on the claim that microfinance institutions (MFIs) are unethically making egregious profits from the sweats and…

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2015-07-01

Ghana

No thematic areas specified

Minimizing the exclusionary effects of standards. What works?

Private agricultural sustainability standards have been found to have exclusionary effects on Southern women and smallholders. Standards may deny marginalized actors market access or offer access only…

2010-11-01

2015-06-30

Economic development and value chains

Agricultural production

Roskilde University (RUC), Department of Society and Globalisation

Total grant

2,362,417

Masculinity, sexuality and HIV/AIDS in Zambian prisons

The spread of HIV/AIDS is deeply embedded in socio-economic realities of poverty and inequality. This research aims to shed light on experiences of incarcerated men, a group who are routinely…

2010-04-01

2015-05-31

Zambia

Conflict, peace and security

Roskilde University (RUC), Department of Society and Globalisation

DIGNITY - Danish Institute Against Torture, Denmark

Total grant

2,779,864

People Speaking Back? Media, Empowerment and Democracy in East Africa (MEDIeA)

MEDIeA’s analytical challenge is to understand the ways and means in which youth as ordinary citizens engage with civil society driven media and communication platforms and what socio-cultural and…

2009-01-01

2015-03-01

Roskilde University (RUC), Department of Communication Business and Information Technologies

University of Dar Es Salaam (UDSM), Department of Sociology and Anthropology

University of Nairobi (UoN), Kenya

Total grant

5,544,977

http://mediea.ruc.dk/

West African Network for Studies of Environmental Change (WANSEC)

It is proposed to create a West African network, including the University of Dakar, Senegal, Technical University of Bamako, Mali, University of Ghana, Legon, and the University of Ouagadougou,…

2008-01-01

2013-11-30

University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Faculty of Science

University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Faculty of Science, Department of Geography and Geology

University of Ouagadougou (OU), Department of Geography

University of Dakar, LERG, Senegal

University of Bamako, Department of Geology, Mali

University of Ghana (UG), Department of Sociology, Institute of Geography and Resource Development

http://www.ind.ku.dk/english/research/research_projects/wansec/

Total grant

5,275,836

Structures of Stigma: Diagonal AIDS Care and Treatment Abandonment in Mozambique

From a predominantly political standpoint, informed by a multi-sited ethnographical case study in Mozambique, this project aims to provide a clear articulation of the relationship between curative…

2008-12-31

2013-07-01

Mozambique

Health

Roskilde University (RUC), Department of Society and Globalisation

Total grant

2,147,963

Decentralisation and Local Governance of Land in Africa. Land Reform Implementation and Citizen Participation in Tanzania

Improved tenure security can help improve food security for the 75% of the world’s poor who live on the countryside and depend on access to land. The project investigates implementation of…

2009-10-01

2013-06-30

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark

Ardhi University (ARU), Tanzania

Total grant

2,820,437

Danish participation in TWAS Development programmes

2005-01-01

2012-10-31

No country specified

No thematic areas specified

Total grant

112,650

Chinese drivers for African Development

Development aid alone cannot finance Africa's development. Other external sources are needed. Important among these is foreign direct investment (FDI), which may fill a resource gap in Africa and at…

2008-01-01

2011-12-31

China

Zambia

Roskilde University (RUC), Department of Society and Globalisation

Total grant

2,221,924

Does democratic decentralisation benefit poor groups politically? The case of Indonesia.

2004-01-01

2011-06-01

Indonesia

Roskilde University (RUC), Department of Society and Globalisation

Total grant

1,596,301

Political process and social contest - A historical analysis of state-chief relations in Kpandai district, Northern Ghana

Recent decentralisation, the demarcation of a new district and the establishing of a district assembly in Kpandai, northern Ghana has given rise to a resurfacing of historically unresolved disputes…

2008-01-01

2011-03-11

Ghana

Economic development and value chains

Roskilde University (RUC), Department of Society and Globalisation

Total grant

1,972,152

Molecular Science, Vietnam

2008-01-01

2011-02-28

No thematic areas specified

Total grant

3,080,050

Air pollution modelling & Management of Urban air environment in Vietnam Context

On July 16. 2010, Mr. Ngo Tho Hung has submitted his Ph.D. dissertation report for assessment at the Graduate School for Environmental Stress Studies (GESS) in the Doctoral School of the Department of…

2007-01-01

2011-01-01

Urban development

Health