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Course dates: May 1 to May 4, 2017 Training location: Nairobi, Kenya Contact person: nirungu@www.pasgr.org (Questions/clarifications only) The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) is offering a 4-day professional development course in Survey Design and Execution. This training is relevant to African academics, researchers and PhD students interested in moving from general hypotheses […]

Course dates: May 1-4, 2017 Training location: Nairobi, Kenya Contact person: nirungu@www.pasgr.org (Questions/clarifications only) The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) is offering a 4-day professional development course in Comparative Case Studies Research. This training is relevant to African academics, researchers and PhD students interested in examining comparative case study designs and the […]

Course dates: April 26-29, 2017 Training location: Nairobi, Kenya Contact person: nirungu@www.pasgr.org (Questions/clarifications only) The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) is offering a 4-day professional development course in Social Network Analysis. This training is relevant to African academics, researchers and PhD students interested in exploring and applying the theoretical foundations and research […]

Course dates: April 19 to April 29, 2017 Training location: Nairobi, Kenya Contact person: nirungu@www.pasgr.org (Questions/clarifications only) The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) is offering an 11-day professional development course in Advanced Research Design for Policy-Oriented Research. This training is relevant to African academics, researchers and PhD students interested in enhancing their […]

Click here to download PDF version of this call   1.     Post information This position is ideal for an energetic, enthusiastic, and self-driven communications professional with a keen interest in public policy, higher education and/or research.  The purpose of the position is to support PASGR’s communications and policy outreach function in line with the 2014-2018 […]

Update: The application deadline for this call has been extended to January 15, 2017. Call for Expression of Interest -PASGR independent external review (Click to download PDF version) Background The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) is a £15m 10-year programme funded by DFID over two phases (2019-2014 £8.5m; 2014-2018 £6.5m) designed to […]

Recently, a video featuring a group of grandmothers was shared widely on social media. The video featured a group of grandmothers in Korogocho slum in Nairobi who were learning to defend themselves from predators by acquiring Karate and other self-defense techniques. The video should have been amusing because seeing a group of elderly women kicking […]

PASGR’s Professional Development Training (PDT) Programme took place at KCB Leadership Training Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. The Advanced Research Design (ARD) training – which is a multi‑discipline, professional short course – ran from October 26th to November 12th 2016. ARD is relevant to PhD students, academics and researchers looking to enhance their research design skills. […]

Professor Rahmon Ade Bello, Vice-chancellor, University of Lagos, Nigeria honored PASGR with a private visit on October 10th 2016. He was received by PASGR staff led by the Executive Director, Prof. Tade Aina who thanked him for the University’s contribution to the collaborative Master of Research and Public Policy (MRPP) programme. The University of Lagos […]

The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) and the University of Nairobi jointly organized a stakeholders’ workshop in Nairobi on September 22nd 2016.The meeting brought together a range of stakeholders from the private sector, government, NGOs and academia. The objective was to examine the extent to which the Master of Research and Public […]