Project Title
Advance Research Management Capacity for Impact in West Africa
Objectives
The project seeks to strengthen research management capacity of universities in Francophone and Anglophone West Africa and aid their capacity to engage with donors and obtain donor funding as direct grantees to support their scientists. Lack of or inadequate research management capabilities in these institutions has been severally identified is one of most prominent factors that has been inhibiting direct funding access for universities in sub–Saharan Africa.
Through the programme a concerted effort is being done to develop capacities of identified institutions for better and more effective research management. The project will provide training and develop tools that can be utilised by the wider community for enhanced efficiency.
Project Site
1. International Center for Research and Training on Applied Genomics and Health Surveillance (CIGASS) at UCAD-FMPO, University of Cheikh Anta Diop
2. Tropical Infectious Diseases Research Center (TIDRC)/University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC); Benin
3. Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria
4. University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
5. Lagos State College of Medicine, Lagos, Nigeria
6. Maitama Sule University, Kano; Nigeria
Project Team
- Dembo Kanteh – Project Director
- Prof Eme Owoaje
- Prof Saffiatou Niare Doumbo
- Prof Aisha Ibrahim Fofana
Activities
1. Co-develop, co-execute and implement a Research Matching Platform to enable institutions assess their research readiness and research management effectiveness. This will be rolled out at the Universities and then evaluated.
2. Support an organisational assessment of WARIMA to position it to achieve its full potential as a regional organisation providing a uniquely needed services in the sub region
3. Support gender mainstreaming in research and research management
4. Strengthen South-South partnership in the engagement between WARIMA and SARIMA
5. Provide training and capacity strengthening platform and tools that can be shared with member institutions including in French and Portuguese where needed
Vision
To be the foremost regional Leader in Research and Innovation Management in the West African Sub-region through global engagements, capacity building and collaborations.
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