INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION

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INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION

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

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Institutional partnerships

• With more than 40 years of collaboration between
  UMB and institutions in Africa, Asia and
  South-East Europe, Noragric has a broad network
  of worldwide contacts. Noragric also has academic
  partnerships in Europe, Western Balkans and in
  Latin America.
• Academic cooperation in Africa includes Ethiopia,
  Mali, Tanzania and Sudan in Asia Nepal,
  Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka.
• 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. The full list
  of partners is on http//www.umb.no/noragric/artic
  le/institutional-cooperation-2

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Ethiopia Hawassa University and Mekelle
University

• An academic partnership for improving livelihoods
  
• Institutional agreement with Hawassa University
  started in 1989. With Mekelle University in 1994
• Funded by Royal Norwegian Embassy/Norwegian
  Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• New project period 2010-2013
• The cooperation includes
• 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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Tanzania Sokoine University of Agriculture

• 1973 Cooperation started with a BSc programme in
  forestry
• 1974 Institutional agreement signed
• 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)
• 2010-2014 Enhancing Pro-poor Innovations in
  Natural Resources and Agricultural Value-chains
  (EPINAV)
• 2010-2014 Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and
  Mitigation (CCIAM)
• Two-month field course offered for Noragrics
  Master students in third semester of studies.

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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. UDSM is also partner in CCIAM
  programme (see previous slide)
• Objectives
• Joint research programmes on marine and coastal
  natural resource management
• Competence building within both institutions
• Enhance cooperation with other institutions in
  East
• Africa
• To address
• rights and development aspirations of local
  coastal communities
• environmental issues including biodiversity
  conservation
• social issues including gender equality
• Disseminate knowledge from cooperative efforts

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Mali Adapting agriculture and livestock
production in Mali to climate change

• Objective improve food security by making
  agriculture and livestock production in northern
  and central Mali more resistant to climate change
  
• Funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign
  Affairs (2011-2015)
• Focus of the project is on applied research
  combining on-station and on-farm research
• Establish a monitoring system to assess the
  progress of the research components support the
  establishment of research centers of the
  project's main partner, Institut d'Economie
  Rurale (IER)

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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
  evalu-
• ation
• to provide technical advice on monitoring and
  evaluation
• to build local capacity on monitoring and
  evaluation.

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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
  research, and staff and student exchange.
• Topics resource management and agriculture,
  sustainable water and sanitation, post-earthquake
  recovery, and poverty alleviation. 
• Ongoing international MSc programme co-organized
  by UMB, CIIT and Tribhuvan University (Nepal) in
  Sustainable Water, Sanitation, Health and
  Development.

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South-East Europe Cooperation with universities
in Western Balkan

• Higher education, research and development in
  Western Balkans (HERD) programme (capacity
  building, research, education programmes). Funded
  by Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  (2010-2015). The HERD Agricultural Sector
  programme is coordinated at Noragric.
• Bosnia and Herzegovina University of Banja Luka
  University of Tuzla University of Mostar
  University of Sarajevo
• Croatia University of Osijek University of
  Zagreb
• Kosovo University of Prishtina
• Macedonia University of S.C. M. of Skopje
• Montenegro University of Montenegro
• Serbia University of Belgrade and University of
  Novi Sad
• Slovenia University of Maribor

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Other institutional partnerships

• For the full list please see the
• Institutional cooperation pages on our website
  www.umb.no/noragric