PASGR Blog

1. Background The Partnership for African Social and Governance (PASGR) is an independent, nonpartisan, panAfrican not-for-profit organisation established in 2011 and located in Nairobi, Kenya. Currently engaged in more than 26 African countries, PASGR works to enhance research excellence in governance and public policy that contributes to the overall wellbeing of citizens. In partnership with […]

Course Dates: April 3rd – April 18th  2019 Training Location: Nairobi, Kenya Contact Person: nirungu@www.pasgr.org The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research is currently accepting applications for the April, 2019 Advanced Training for Multi-Method and Policy Oriented Research. This includes: Advanced Research Design Applied Quantitative Research Methods Comparative Case Study Analysis This training is relevant to […]

Despite Boko Haram attacks and government inaction, the resilience of the Bring Back Our Girls Movement shows that citizens can consistently demand accountability in a non-violent way. Bring Back Our Girls is a women-led mass-based social movement in Nigeria. Despite its success in pressuring the Nigerian government to account for the 276 school girls abducted […]

Dr. Beatrice Muganda Dir. Higher Education Programme at PASGR in an interview with the Association of African Universities (AAU) Talks on Pedagogical Leadership and its Contribution to Higher Education in Africa. This has been re-posted from: https://youtu.be/PqAJ8a9oEbM  

A recent report by African Platform for Social Protection (APSP) in collaboration with PASGR argues that Cash Transfer Programmes is a key determinant to improving  well-being in poor families, people living with disabilities, old people, vulnerable children and orphans. Their infographics below synthesizes their key findings: APSP infographics The data was obtained from the Ministry […]

About 200 African scholars were in Kenya for two weeks to fashion out ways of revolutionising tertiary education in Africa. The scholars from 13 African universities and four research institutions, met on the platform of Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) to explore new learning methods that would be beneficial to learners in […]

In a world where movements appear and fizzle out just as they are getting started, Nigeria’s Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) movement is an exception. Meant to be a one-day march in 2014, it has now entered its fourth year and is waxing strong. What’s more, it has done so partly by rejecting funding from […]

Learning begins from integrating the African wisdom into the teaching and learning experiences. There is a need for the African Universities to rethink about how teaching and learning occur in line with our wisdom, values for the generations to come. Read more This has been re-posted from https://enezaeducation.com/pedagogy-pedal-program/

Research dissemination in settings of conflict and hurt is more than a well-rehearsed flash talk; it can become a forum for healing and learning. That is what we learnt from a research dissemination experience we had in Abuja earlier this year. The research dissemination event was attended by about 60 people including representatives of the […]