Working Document Series Open Access 2012 RUF-33168

Advancing Nutrition, Human Rights and Governance Studies as A Sustainable Capacity Building Partnership to Improve Food and Nutrition Programming:Experiences from A North-South-South Inter-Universities Project in Africa and Europe

Bard Anders AndreassenWenche Barth EidePer Ole IversenA. KaayaJ. KikafundaM. MaraisArne OshaugBlaauw ReneeByaruhanga RukookoP.M. Rukundo

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A South-South-North inter-university project 2010-2014 has launched an innovative model combining nutrition, human rights and governance in existing master programmes at Makerere and Kyambogo Universities in Uganda, Stellenbosch University in South Africa, and the University of Oslo and the Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences in Norway. The project is financed by the Norwegian Government through the NOMA Programme aimed at strengthening universities in developing countries. This pioneer model can serve as an example for other African universities to form intra-Africa partnerships and international networks needed to strengthen capacity for dealing with food security and nutrition through a human rights-based approach, and especially inspire universities aiming at strengthening tertiary education in agriculture at large.

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