ACTS in collaboration with Birmingham and London Southern Bank University is implementing a community based cooling project to stem post-harvest losses in Kenya. The hubs will also be used to store animal and human vaccines. The project covers dairy farming in Kiambu, horticulture in Kitui and fish farming in Homabay counties.
ACTS, in collaboration with Loughborough University, has been implementing the Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) project over the last one and half years. The project aims how to rapidly accelerate a transition from biomass to genuinely clean cooking.
The Science Granting Council Initiative (SGCI) coordinated by ACTS started in 2015 and aims to strengthen the capacities of science granting councils (SGCs) in sub-Saharan Africa in order to support research and evidence-based policies that will contribute to the continent’s economic and social development.
A seminar series on knowledge and innovation for development in honor of Prof. Juma, the founder of ACTS, was successfully launched on 12th August 2021.
A scholarship program to foster and nurture talent in responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in African public universities will be officially launched on Tuesday August 31st, 2021. The scholarship will be awarded to successful registered PhD students (4 female and 4 male), two each from the 4 regions of the Sub-Saharan Africa. Please use this link to register for the launch.
Science, Technology and innovation (STI) are considered the key cogs in the engine of sustainable socio-economic development. And for developing counties - especially in Africa – to fast-track and sustain industrialization - and accelerate socio-economic progress - more attention and resources must be devoted to these key areas.
We are pleased to announce the upcoming publication of Building Science Systems by Dr. Rebecca Hanlin and Dr. Aschalew Tigabu with colleagues as part of SGCI Africa. The book argues that African governments are at a turning point with science systems and continue work to move beyond only science as research and innovation to encapsulate all forms of knowledge, technology and innovation.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Office for Eastern Africa, the National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI) and the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) recognise that the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (the “SDGs”) requires a concerted alliance between inter-governmental organisations, governments, non-governmental organisations and private sector entities.
African scholars have been urged to embrace innovation and transformative thinking in pursuing research to provide answers to critical issues affecting the continent to unlock Africa’s potential on its Sustainable Development prospects.
Kenya’s top climate think tank has partnered with a British university to drive policies to tackle climate change. The Africa Centre for Technology Studies and the University of Sussex have developed a mechanism to enable African countries to tap into the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the global fund for innovators tackling climate change.
The United Kingdom (UK) Commonwealth Scholarship Commission is sponsoring 10 Scholarships for the UK Open University Master of Science in Environmental Management. This is a three year distance learning course, which commences in November 2020. The course is taught by the Open University, UK and managed locally by the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS).
The University of Rwanda (UR) in partnership with the African Center for Technology Studies (ACTS) held a one day applied workshop at University of Rwanda on the 25th of July, 2018 to mark the inception of the Knowledge Systems Innovation (KSI) project.
By Nora Ndege
A stakeholders workshop organised by the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) and the University of Nairobi was held at the Sarova Panafric hotel on the 29th of June, 2018 to mark the inception of the Knowledge Systems Innovation ‘KSI’ project.
The National Research and Development Innovation Fund (FONRID) of Burkina Faso and the Directorate General for Research and Innovation (DGRI) of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and Innovation (Mesri) of Senegal supported by the Theme 3 of the Council Initiative (SGCI) are pleased to announce the launch of a call for projects in the fields of agriculture and health.
Dr Joanes Atela has been nominated to co-chair the “International Network of Climate Change Centres of Excellence and Think-Tanks for Capacity Building (INCCCETT 4CB)” partnership, which was launched at UNFCCC COP22 in Marrakesh, Morocco. ACTS was nominated to represent Sub Saharan Africa in INCCCETT 4CB partnership
The African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) in partnership with the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) of the University of Greenwich, the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Dar-es-salaam University College of Education (DUCE),
On 15th December 2017, Prof. Calestous Juma, a research and development icon who revolutionized development thinking in Africa, breathed his last while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
On behalf of the Chairman and Members of the Governing Council of the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), we are pleased to inform you as a key Partner of the appointment of Professor Tom Peter Migun Ogada as the new Executive Director of ACTS, effective from 10th July 2018.
Editors: Hailemichael Teshome Demissie, Cosmas Milton Obote Ochieng, Guillermo Foladori and Desalegn Mengesha (ACTS Press, University of Gondar Press and STIC)
The International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG) announces the publication of its 2016 “Climate Think Tank Rankings”, the authoritative and worldwide known assessment of the most cutting-edge institutions working in the field of climate change economics and policy.
Our partners in the LCT project at United International University (UIU) in Bangladesh won first prize at a Power and Energy Hackathon organised by the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources in Bangladesh last week. They won with their fan driven improved cookstove design that is currently being piloted in Kenya by RECI with mentoring support from ACTS.
Deadline for applications 12th May 2017
The UK Commonwealth Scholarship Commission is sponsoring 10 Scholarships for the UK Open University Master of Science in Environmental Management. This is a three year distance learning course, which commences in November 2017.
Eco-inclusive Start-up Enterprises can Submit Their Candidacy by 8th March 2017
Nairobi, 10 January 2017 – Eco-inclusive start-up enterprises that are solving pressing local issues by integrating social and environmental benefits into their business models can apply for the 2017 SEED Awards. Winning enterprises will receive a tailor-made business support package.
Bonn (16/01/2017). The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and its partners are making the national climate action plans submitted under the Paris Climate Change Agreement more comparable with the help of an interactive tool on climate action and policy: the NDC Explorer.
The Natural Capital Coalition is launching a ‘Protocol Application Program’ on July 13 in London to support businesses as they apply the Natural Capital Protocol and sector guides.
The Protocol provides a standardized framework for business to identify, measure and value their impacts and dependencies on natural capital.
By Winnie Khaemba
The Paris Agreement on Climate Change is a legal instrument adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The Paris Agreement recognizes climate change as a ‘common concern for mankind’ and urges parties (countries) to be cognizant of gender equality, women empowerment, indigenous peoples, the most vulnerable, persons with disability and inter-generational equity.
The UK Commonwealth Scholarship Commission is sponsoring 10 Scholarships for the UK Open University Master of Science in Environmental Management. This is a three year distance learning course, which commences in November 2016.
The African Centre for Technology Studies, Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) - the German Corporation for International Cooperation, National Treasury (Kenya) and the Greening Kenya Initiative (GKI) organised a one day workshop on green economy at the Laico Regency Hotel in Nairobi on 17th November 2015.
Governing the Nexus in Southern Africa - A partnership for understanding politics, institutional dynamics and challenges at the intersection of land, water and environmental governance in southern African contexts.
The Natural Capital Coalition, launched in 2012, brings together the different initiatives and organisations working in natural capital to collaborate on projects that will help to deliver a common vision of a world where business conserves and enhances natural capital.
The current ecological crises facing the world are a major result of humanity no longer living off the dividends of natural capital, but rather depleting the natural capital. Businesses are a major consumer of natural resources, hence critical to any efforts to address this issue.
Over 41 countries gathered in Senchi, Ghana, from 9-10 October, 2015, under the aegis of the Pan-African business and biodiversity Forum (PABF). Participants represented governments, business, civil society, academia, development institutions and financial institutions.
