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Lack of meaningful engagements between researchers and policy practitioners have often stifled policy making efforts in Africa. As a consequence, research and policy making processes have always operated in silo formats, limiting cross learning and by extension effective policy making and programming. Across Africa, the need to integrate research evidence in the conversations and practices […]
The Utafiti Sera houses have continued to register impact on various fronts, for instance, ongoing houses (Urban Governance house Nairobi, Urban Governance house Kigali, and Youth Employment Creation House in Kenya) continued to expand frontiers of evidence-based convenings, providing important platforms for policy actors as well as researchers to engage to rethink policy work across […]
Utafiti Sera (Kiswahili for research-policy) is a combination of many things that ensure and enhance policy outcomes. It is a ‘process’, place’, ‘forum’, ‘platform’, or a ‘vehicle’ for transforming research evidence-based knowledge for policy uptake. Utafiti Sera, as work in progress, supports, contributes to building and enhances a community of researchers and policy actors working together […]
The Research Programme facilitates capacity development and knowledge production for policy relevant social and governance research in Africa through collaborations with researchers based in their home institutions. The programme aims to provide high quality policy relevant research to varied audiences; integrate policy actors into the different phases of the governance research process and institutionalise research-policy […]
Urban Governance and Turning African Cities Around: This theme explores recent rapid urbanisation in Africa and emerging evidence that some metropolitan cities are turning around their past deficits in the provision of infrastructure and services. Visit the project page Varieties of Modes of Governance and Inclusive Development: Focusing on the nature of recent “growth” in […]
Philosophers of Education Association of Nigeria (PEAN) recognizes PASGR for Dedication to Education and Selfless Service to Humanity. Enugu, Nigeria 27 October 2021: The Partnership for African Social & Governance Research (PASGR) received an award from the Philosophers of Education Association of Nigeria (PEAN). PASGR was accorded this prestigious award at the Association’s 40th Anniversary […]
Kaketch is a resourceful professional with extensive hands-on experience in research, project/programme management, policy analysis, monitoring & evaluation, partnerships & civil society engagement focusing on, youth employment creation, social protection, political governance, water governance, urban governance, decentralization, democracy, and education within Africa and more specifically Kenya. Kaketch champions the transformation of Africa through research evidence in […]
Youth unemployment remains a major challenge in Kenya, perpetuating the country’s socioeconomic problems such as poverty and hunger. Unchecked, the International Labour Organization fears that youth unemployment, currently estimated at 35 per cent of the population, will double by 2045. The problem of joblessness in Kenya has been fuelled by the global COVID-19 pandemic, whose […]
Utafiti Sera and INCLUDE’s African Policy Dialogues During the conference, participants debated various approaches to evidence-based policy in Africa and the political economies and cultures that facilitate or inhibit the use of evidence in policy processes. One of the approaches featured was Utafiti Sera (research policy). This approach was pioneered in 2015 by PASGR, INCLUDE, […]
Research findings have shown that almost half of the city of Kigali population is directly affected by poor waste management and sanitation, especially from slum areas. Findings from the 3rd research forum on Urban Governance and City Transformation (Utafiti Sera) showed that the 43.6% of one million Kigali residents use unimproved sanitary facilities – a […]
6th Floor, I & M Building
2nd Ngong Avenue, Upper Hill
P.O. Box 76418-00508
Nairobi, Kenya
Email: info@pasgr.org
Tel: +254 (0)20 2985000;
+254 (0)729 111031 / +254 (0)731 000065
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