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INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATION

• at the Department of International Environment
  and Development Studies (Noragric)

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Institutional partnerships

• Through institutional partnerships Noragric
  maintains and develops the relevancy of its
  research and education in addressing local and
  global environment and development issues with
  focus on low and medium income countries.
• Activities include joint research, joint
  education activities, staff and student exchange
  and capacity building.
• Some of Noragrics institutional partnerships are
  presented in the following slides.

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Ethiopia Hawassa University and Mekelle
University

• Research activities with Hawassa University
  started in 1988. The current programme with both
  Hawassa and Mekelle University started in 1999
  and has been implemented in two 5-years phases.
  The third five-years phase is expected to start
  in 2009The cooperation encompasses e.g.
• Crop science
• Environmental rehabilitation and ecology
• Soil and water sciences including irrigation
• Veterinary sciences
• Animal science
• Limnology and fisheries
• Biodiversity and genetic resources
• Social sciences
• Food safety

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Malawi University of Malawi, Bunda College of
Agriculture

• Joint activities related to the Support to
  Bunda College Capacity Building Programme phase
  III (2006-2010)
• Exchange of staff and students
• Advice and support to institutional development
  including library development at Bunda College
• Joint monitoring and evaluation of the programme
  Collaboration under the Malawi Agricultural
  Research and Development Fund (2006-2010)
• Joint development and implementation of
  collaborative research and outreach projects
• Participatory monitoring and evaluation of the
  programme
• Joint publication and dissemination of knowledge

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Sudan University of Juba  and Upper Nile
University

• Type Capacity development, research
• Financed by NUCOOP (under SIU), (2007-2011)
• Coordinator Dr. Trygve Berg 
• The civil war in the Sudan was brought to an end
  with the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement
  (CPA). One of the articles in the CPA requires
  the moving of the southern Sudanese universities
  from Khartoum to their homes bases in the
  south.
• NUCOOP is a SiU-administered programme to
  support this process and shall in the case of
  NORAGRICs collaboration with University of Juba
  and Upper Nile University be used on

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Juba and Upper Nile Universities (cont.)

• Capacity building
• Minisabathicals for senior staff
• PhD research
• MSc-stipends
• Research collaboration
• Post-war revival of rural livelihood including
• Management of war related environmental
  degradation
• Wildlife-community conflicts
• Returnees and post-war conflict management
• Plant genetic resources
• Livestock and range management
• Institution building
• Academic books
• Animal science laboratory

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Juba and Upper Nile Universities (cont.)
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Tanzania Sokoine University of Agriculture

• 1973 Cooperation with Sokoine University of
  Agriculture started with a BSc programme in
  forestry
• 1996 Broad cooperation agreement at university
  level
• 2000-2005 Food Security and Household Income for
  Small-holder Farmers in Tanzania (TARPII-SUA)
• 2005-2009 Programme for Agricultural and
  Natural Resources Transformation for Improved
  Livelihoods (PANTIL)
• PANTIL
• 22 researchers from the Norwegian University of
  Life Sciences (UMB), Norwegian School of
  Veterinary Science (NVH) and the Norwegian
  Institute for Agricultural and Environmental
  Research (Bioforsk) participate in 19 applied
  research projects

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Tanzania University of Dar es Salaam

• The Institute of Marine Sciences is the focal
  point of the cooperation at the University of
  Dar es Salaam.
• Objectives
• Joint research programmes on marine and coastal
  natural resource management
• Competence building within both institutions
• Enhance cooperation with other institutions in
  East Africa
• address
• rights and development aspirations of local
  coastal communities
• environmental issues including biodiversity
  conservation
• social issues including gender equality
• Disseminate knowledge from cooperative efforts
• A new programme addressing climate change is in
  the pipeline

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Uganda Makerere University

• The current activity is focused on Makerere
  Universitys role as one of the two hosts for the
  third semester of Noragrics MSc programme in
  International Environmental Studies. Under this
  activity Makerere University
• takes part in curriculum development
• teaches a 15 credits course
• hosts UMBs students at Makerere Universitys
  campus and provides logistical support
• provides supervision for students conducting
  fieldwork in Uganda
• provides teaching and reading facilities for
  students and visiting Noragric staff

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Conservation Farming Unit (CFU) of Zambia
National Farmers Union (ZNFU)

• Conservation agriculture is a set of crop
  husbandry practices characterised by retention of
  crop residues, minimum tillage, land preparation
  in the dry season, early and continuous weeding,
  crop rotation, intercropping, and agroforestry.
• The Conservation Agriculture Project (CAP)
  provides training on conservation agriculture to
  120,000 farmers.
• Noragrics role in CAP is
• to measure project impacts on target
  beneficiaries
• to assist in measuring project outputs
• to assess effects of institutional networking and
  evaluation
• to provide technical advice on monitoring and
  evaluation
• to build local capacity on monitoring and
  evaluation.
• More about the project Conservation Farming Unit
  of Zambia

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Nepal Tribhuvan University

• The current activity is focused on Tribhuvan
  Universitys role as one of the two hosts for the
  third semester of Noragrics MSc programme in
  International Environmental Studies.
• Under this activity Tribhuvan University
• takes part in curriculum development
• teaches a 15 credits course
• hosts UMBs students at Makerere Universitys
  campus and provides logistical support
• provides supervision for students conducting
  fieldwork in Nepal
• provides teaching andreading facilities for
  students and visiting Noragric staff

Noragric PhD student Mohamed Ali Guyo (left)
together with Dr. Saubhagya Shah, the
Post-Graduate Course Coordinator, Centre for
Conflict, Peace and Development, Tribhuvan
University, Nepal
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Pakistan COMSATS Institute of Information
Technology (CIIT)

• Collaboration with CIIT began in 2006 at the
  campus in Abbottabad, with the Departments of
  Environmental Sciences and Development Studies.
• Activities include curriculum development, joint
  advising, joint research, and staff and student
  exchange.
• Topics include resource management and
  agriculture, sustainable water and sanitation,
  post-earthquake recovery, and poverty
  alleviation. 
• Recently (2008) an international MSc programme
  was developed by UMB, CIIT and Tribhuvan
  University (Nepal) in Sustainable Water,
  Sanitation, Health and Development.
• Additional programmes with CIIT are under
  development to support research and education
  activities in Afghanistan.

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South-Eastern Europe Cooperation with
universities in Western Balkan

• Albania
• Agricultural University of Tirana
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• University of Banja Luka, University of Mostar,
  University Dz.B. of Mostar and University of
  Sarajevo
• Croatia
• J.J.S. University of Osijek , University of Zadar
  
• Kosovo
• University of Pristina
• Macedonia
• University of S.C. M. of Skopje
• Montenegro
• University of Montenegro
• Serbia
• University of Belgrade and University of Novi Sad
  

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South-Eastern Europe Cooperation with
universities in Western Balkan

• Cooperating institutions in Norway
• Norwegian University of Life Sciences
• Dept of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences
• Dept of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science
• Dept of Ecology and Natural Resource Management
• Dept of Plant and Environmental Sciences
• Dept of Economics and Resource Management
• Dept of International Environment and Development
  Studies (Noragric)
• Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute
• Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and
  Environmental Research