Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark

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…
Kenya
Tanzania
empowerment
labour
organizations
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
Department of Society and Globalisation (RUC)
University of Nairobi, Institute for Development Studies, Kenya
Mzumbe University, Institute of Development Studies, Tanzania
University of Greenwich, Livelihoods & Institutions Department, UK
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…
Mozambique
Tanzania
foreign investment
human rights
land ownership
natural resources
political power
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
Department of Society and Globalisation (RUC)
University of Dar es Salaam, Institute of Resource Assessment, Tanzania
University of Eduardo Mondlane, Dept. of Political Science and Public Administration, Mozambique
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark
Total grant
9,969,902
http://www.ruc.dk/hierarchies

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…
Ethiopia
Kenya
Somalia
Somaliland
security
fragile states
governance
political power
trade
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
Department of Society and Globalisation (RUC)
Forum for Social Studies, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
University of Hargeisa, Somaliland, Somalia
University of Nairobi, 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…
Indonesia
Vietnam
access
decentralization
deforestation
governance
monitoring
University of Copenhagen (KU), Denmark
Faculty of Science (KU)
Department of Food and Resource Economics (KU)
Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Department of Forest Resources Conservation, Indonesia
Hanoi University of Agriculture (HUA), Centre for Agricultural Research and Ecological Studies, Vietnam
Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Cultural Studies (ICS), Vietnam
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
Total grant
8,994,436
http://www.ifro.ku.dk/reddplus

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…
Vietnam
climate change
coping strategies
land use
livelihoods
sustainability
upland areas
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
Department of Society and Globalisation (RUC)
Total grant
2,505,553

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…
Zambia
risk
sexual behaviour
social environment
acquired immune deficiency syndrome
human immunodeficiency viruses
prisons
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
Department of Society and Globalisation (RUC)
DIGNITY - Dansk Institut mod Tortur, 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…
Kenya
Tanzania
democracy
empowerment
governance
mass media
participation
women
youth
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
Department of Communication Business and Information Technologies (RUC)
University of Dar Es Salaam, Department of Sociology and Anthropology,Tanzania
University of Nairobi, Institute of Development Studies, Kenya
Total grant
5,544,977
http://mediea.ruc.dk/

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…
Mozambique
acquired immune deficiency syndrome
antiretroviral agents
efficacy
ethnography
malnutrition
politics
treatment
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
Department of Society and Globalisation (RUC)
Total grant
2,147,963
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