Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark

Multiple Waterscapes in Urban Ghana (MUWUG)

Research project Researching everyday access to drinking water in urban Ghana under conditions of climate change. MUWUG (Multiple Waterscapes in Urban Ghana) is an international research collaboration between Copenhagen University, Kwame Nkrumah University of Scie ...

Period: 2024-04-1 to 2029-03-31 Countries: Ghana Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark Geneva Water Hub, Switzerland Project code: 24-M06-KU Total grant: 10,000,000 DKK

Governing Nature-based Climate Solutions: Prospects for a just green transition in Kenya (JUCAN)

Research project Nature based Climate Solutions (NbS) are, in brief, actions that aim at benefiting climate, biodiversity, and people. These solutions are high on the global and national carbon offsetting and biodiversity conservation agendas. The number of projects ...

Period: 2024-04-1 to 2029-03-31 Countries: Kenya Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: University of Nairobi (UoN), Kenya Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN), Kenya Project code: 24-07-KU Total grant: 9,999,277 DKK

TRANS-AG: Governing TRANSformation in AGricultural Systems

Research project In the TRANS-AG research programme, a multidisciplinary team of Vietnamese and Danish researchers provides novel research on agricultural transformation in response to climate and environmental challenges. Across the globe, agricultural systems are u ...

Period: 2024-04-1 to 2028-08-31 Countries: Vietnam Lead institution: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark Partner institutions: Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry (HUAF), Vietnam University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Project code: 24-M01-DIIS Total grant: 10,025,830 DKK

Transformative knowledge for people, forests and climate in Tanzania (Mageuzi ya Maarifa)

Research project Climate change policy and forest management laws and regulations in Africa are developed by experts who are trained using Western epistemological approaches. A wealth of other approaches, using bottom-up knowledge, are available, but these are rarely ...

Period: 2024-04-1 to 2028-03-31 Countries: Tanzania Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania University of Dodoma (UDOM), Tanzania UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), United Kingdom Nordic Agency for Development and Ecology (NORDECO), Denmark Project code: 24-10-KU Total grant: 9,999,738 DKK

Pastoralist Climate Change Resilience in Somaliland (PACCS)

Research project This research project (PACCS) explores how pastoralists in Somaliland, an East African climate ‘hot spot’, adapt to climate change effects on their livelihoods. Pastoralism is a complex system, driven by interlinked economic, socio-ecological and ins ...

Period: 2022-09-1 to 2027-08-31 Countries: Somalia (incl. Somaliland) Lead institution: Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark Partner institutions: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark University of Hargeisa (UOH), Somaliland University of Nairobi (UoN), Kenya Social Research and Development Institute (SORADI), Somaliland University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark Project code: 21-04-RUC Total grant: 11,770,885 DKK

Complex pathways of climate mobility for children and youth in Ethiopia

Research project All over the world, children and youth are feeling the effects of unprecedented, intensifying and in some instances even irreversible climate change. Those growing up in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to these changes. With gloomy p ...

Period: 2023-03-1 to 2027-02-28 Countries: Ethiopia Lead institution: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark Partner institutions: The Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), Ethiopia Project code: 23-02-DIIS Total grant: 12,347,391 DKK

Myanmar: Climate Actions, Conflict and Peacebuilding

Research project This research project (MyClimate) explores how climate change interventions affect and are affected by existing conflict dynamics over natural resources and identity politics in six of Myanmar’s contested ethnic areas (Kachin, Chin, Mon, Naga, Pa-O, ... First year report One objective of MyClimate is to produce new empirical knowledge on how communities in Myanmar perceive and cope with the effects of climate change during a time of profound crisis. Another objective is to explore how different a ...

Period: 2021-12-1 to 2026-11-30 Countries: Myanmar Lead institution: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark Partner institutions: Enlightened Myanmar Research (EMR), Myanmar Yangon University (UY), Myanmar Project code: 20-05-DIIS Total grant: 12,000,000 DKK

Energy struggles: renewable energy in Africa

Research project The overall objective of this project is to contribute to a better understanding of how a transition to renewable energy can occur in sub-Saharan Africa. Many countries have set targets for solar and wind, but implementation has been slow and uneven. ...

Period: 2021-09-1 to 2026-03-31 Countries: Ghana Tanzania Lead institution: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark Partner institutions: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana University of Ghana Business School (UGBS), Ghana UNEP DTU Partnership (UNEPDTU), Denmark Project code: 20-09-DIIS Total grant: 11,952,903 DKK

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