11 projects

INTPARTORDNING-INTPARTORDNING

Excellence in Conservation Biology through Accelerated Research and Training

COGENT is an international initiative designed to tackle one of the planet’s most urgent challenges: the rapid loss of biodiversity. The project forms a long-term partnership between the University of Oslo and and four key African institutions: Addis Ababa University (AAU: Ethiopia), Makerere Uni...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Reducing alcohol use among adolescents through a community-based, multicomponent intervention: an implementation research approach

New findings from the project: Parental substance use is a consistent predictor of adolescent initiation and escalation of substance use. Mechanisms include: modeling of behaviors, increased access/availability at home, normalization of substance use as acceptable behavior, and strong evidence ex...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Østfold

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

God, grievance, and greed? Understanding Northern Mozambique’s new Islamist war

The research questions in the project were summarised in the three Gs in the title. The original assumptions about complexity proved to be correct: the violence is driven not only by religion and changes in the religious landscape (God), but also by the rebels exploiting local indignation and fee...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Vestland

GLOBVAC-Global helse- og vaksinasjonsforskn.

Information Systems for Emergency Diseases Emergency Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic – supporting global and national surveillance

This project had the central objective of supporting Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) with appropriate health information systems, empowering them to respond to rapidly changing information needs during the COVID-19 pandemic and later disease outbreaks. The project was centred on DHIS2, th...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2022

Location: Oslo - Oslove

NORGLOBAL2-Norge - Global partner

The Politics of Youth Interventions in Africas Authoritarian Regimes

This project has contributed with new knowledge on one of the major global development trends: the demographic shifts resulting in large youth cohorts in many poor countries. By studying youth employment and political representation schemes in four authoritarian regimes (Ethiopia, Mozambique, Uga...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Enclaving: Patterns of global futures in three African cities

'Enclaving' is the unequal distribution of urban resources in separated spaces across cities. In Africa, enclaving means new forms of urban spatial and social differentiation, such as gated communities or private cities. Such differentiation often entails atomization or fragmentation of the city ...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2025

Location: Vestland

GLOBVAC-Global helse- og vaksinasjonsforskn.

Political determinants of sexual and reproductive health: Criminalisation, health impacts and game changers

The project “Political Determinants of SRHR” analyses effects of criminalizing sexual and reproductive behaviour and health services and the political dynamics that drive, hamper and shape such uses of criminal law. The empirical focus is on causes and effects of (de)criminalization of abortion a...

Awarded: NOK 14.9 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2023

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

The Voice of China in Africa. Development Models and Communication Strategies.

I det siste tiåret mye har vært skrevet om Kinas økende betydning og voksende innflytelse i Afrika. Så langt har det meste av forskningen fokusert på ulike dimensjoner ved Kinas økonomiske engasjement som handel, investeringer og økonomisk bistand, infrastruktur, olje og naturressurser, men også ...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Vestland

GLOBVAC-Global helse- og vaksinasjonsforskn.

Communicate to vaccinate (COMMVAC) 2: Implementing communication interventions to improve childhood vaccination uptake in LICs

Background Effective communication between the health services and caregivers of children can improve childhood vaccination uptake and strengthen immunization services in low-income countries (LICs) and settings. A key challenge, though, is how best to integrate evidence-based communication strat...

Awarded: NOK 10.9 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2020

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

The Ethnography of a Divided City: Socio-Politics, Poverty and Gender in Maputo, Mozambique

With a focus on the capital city of Maputo in Mozambique, the project will produce new and empirically supported knowledge in terms of key urban dynamics, including the way urban poverty is spatialised, gendered, politicised, experienced, contested and coped with. During the current reporting per...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Monitoring of CyanoToxins in Southern Africa

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Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2016

Location: Akershus