Edulink: PopTRCD
- Population Training and Research Capacity for Development
Based in Ghana, but with links with Ibadan, Nigeria and Fourah Bay, Sierra Leone, the aim of this research is to improve training in population sciences through the establishment of a survey field site in slums areas of Accra.
Edulink: STARND
- Strengthening Training and Regional Networks in Demography
This project in based in five Southern African countries and aims to strengthen the demographic curriculum and research in this area.
ESRC:
Brazil-India Pathfinder project
Work on health inequalities, comparing the two growing economies of India and Brazil, is conducted within this project.
Maternal maps
Using innovative mapping skills to study the determinants of maternal mortality is the focus of this ESRC/DFID joint funded research
Child poverty studies
Studying poverty through the eyes of children is very different from looking at it from an adult-centric way. Studies in Lesotho are being conducted looking at child poverty and links with policies.
Poverty and Reproductive Health Seminar Series
This seminar series, conducted by GHP3 and its associates sought to enhance the understanding of the linkages and feed-back processes between poverty and sexual and reproductive health in low resources settingsCurrent projects
Microbicides
Opportunities and Choices
Replication of Rural Decentralised off-grid Electricity Generation through Technology and Business Innovation
What is this impact that off-grid electricity will have in in rural villages? This project will look at this question in villages in Kenya.
Deltas
: Assessing Health, Livelihoods, Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation in Populous Deltas
This project seeks to quantify the linkages between the ecosystem services (ES) that affect – and are affected by – the livelihoods and food security efforts of the rural poor at the forest-agricultural interface.
Maternal, Infant and young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) project
This project seeks to test the effectiveness of personalized home-based nutritional counselling on infant feeding practices, morbidity and nutritional outcomes among infants in Nairobi slums
The study, funded by Wellcome Trust UK, is a fellowship for the Principal Investigator (Dr. Elizabeth Kimani of the African Population and Health Research Centre-APHRC. She can be contacted on ekimani@aphrc.org)