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The first policy dialogue with senior policy makers on youth employment creation in agriculture and agro-processing for inclusive growth in Kenya was held in Nairobi on 12th June 2018. The meeting brought together 10 key stakeholders from the Ministry of Agriculture, Technical and Vocational Training Authority (TVETA), the National Industrial Training Authority (NITA), the National […]

Date: 26 April, 2018 Venue: Kigali, Rwanda Forum Focus: Affordable housing in Kigali The 2nd Utafiti Sera Stakeholders’ Forum on Urban Governance in Kigali was held on April 26, 2018 in Kigali, Rwanda.The forum brought together 40 stakeholders from local, national and international institutions concerned with research and policy-making around and issues pertaining to urban governance […]

Date: 27 February 2018 Location: Nairobi, Kenya Forum Focus: Urban Governance and City Transformation The Urban Governance and City Transformation breakfast meeting organised by the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR)  in association with Pamoja Trust was held on 27 February 2018 to share emerging evidence and findings pertaining to the Social Dimension of […]

The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PAS GR) under Utafiti Sera, the Knowledge Platform on Inclusive Development (INCLUDE), and the  Ministry of East African Community, Labour and Social Protection (MEACL&SP) Kenya, held a consultative meeting with the State Corporations Advisory Committee (SCAC) on the draft national social protection coordination bill. This is a follow […]

Date: 23rd March, 2018 Location: Mombasa, Kenya Forum Focus: Legal framework for Social Protection The Utafiti Sera High-Level Policy Meeting brought together 19 key stakeholders operating in the Social Protection (SP) sector to discuss the legal and policy framework for SP programmes in Kenya with the Members of the National Assembly from the Departmental committee on […]

This study describes and analyses urban governance processes using the Addis Abeba Light Rail Transit (AA-LRT), and the Integrated Housing Development Program (IHDP), as flagship projects that have turned the City of Addis Abeba around. The study utilized a political economy analysis and used PASGR’s urban governance analytical categories as guiding frameworks. FINAL The Governance […]

The final report of the Centre for African Bio-Entrepreneurship (CABE) is on implementation and reflections of activities of Utafiti Sera in Kenya. The overarching long-term outcome of Utafiti Sera is uptake of research evidence as seen in the design of national policies, thus, setting agenda for national debates, and changes in employment policies and programme […]

The African Institute for Health and Development (AIHD) signed an agreement with the Partnership of Social and Governance Research (PASGR) to host Kenya’s “Research-policy community (Utafiti Sera) on social protection in Kenya” project. The project was launched in a forum that was organized by PASGR and Knowledge Platform on Inclusive Development (INCLUDE) on May 13, […]

This video contains abstracts of interviews filmed at the launch of the Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA) Research Programme in Nigeria, in 2017 Interviewees are (in order of appearance): Aisha Yesufu, Bring Back Our Girls Luqman Saka, University of Illorin Plangsat Dayil, University of Jos Ayo Ojebode, University of Ibadan Halima Gogowoli, University of […]

The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research( PASGR) in association with the knowledge platform on Inclusive Development(INCLUDE) and the National Institute for Legislative Studies(NILDS) with support from International Development Research Centre( IDRC), Canada and Department for International Development (DFID) recently commissioned a study that sort to examine the how and why of the constraints […]