Rwanda
Can Rwanda’s farm waste help restore its depleted soils?
Locally developed vermicompost and biochar show promise for improving crop yields and soil health, but researchers say further testing is needed before wider adoption. The vermicompost process uses tiger worms to break down prepared organic materials into a dark, crumb-like product, while the biochar is made by heating crop residues under restricted oxygen. For Beata…
Rwanda’s integrated approach to sustainable agriculture and nutrition
Project Titles & Institution Areas of Research Number of Projects being funded Project Duration Grant Amount In-Kind Distribution Council Collaboration with other councils
National Council for Science and Technology (Rwanda)
The Mission of NCST is to enable Rwanda to become a country based on science, technology and innovation as tools for promoting social welfare and sustainable socio economic development of the country and competitiveness on the market
Covid-19 Africa Rapid Grant Fund: Science advice project abstracts
These project abstracts are part of the COVID-19 Africa Rapid Grant Fund, which include science-focused COVID-19 response projects across Africa. The aim of the projects is to provide evidence-based science advice for effective policy making during the pandemic. The COVID-19 science advice project abstracts Dr. Aliyu Muhammad, Nigerian Young Academy (Nigeria) The aim of this…
Rwanda Investing In Research To Influence Policy Processes
Approaches to the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of policy influencing activities has been recognized as one of the pillars for Rwanda to improve policy implementation during the second phase of the Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI 2) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SGCI). Rwanda’s National Council of Science and Technology (NCST)is considering to develop a Monitoring and…
EAC Researchers Developing Food Systems Through Mass-Rearing of Locusts
Rwandan agricultural researchers are striving to join forces with their counterparts from the East African Community (EAC) within a win-win framework during the second phase of Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI2) implementation. Through this partnership, scientists from Rwanda and Kenya have been working together in strengthening research cooperation in mass-rearing of locusts used for livestock…
Recalibrating Rwanda’s Research And Innovation Engagement
KIGALI: A number of regional research projects were funded by Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI) in close collaboration with national granting councils from four African countries including Rwanda in strengthening science, research and innovation systems. The SGCI as a multi-funder initiative was launched in 2015 with the overall goal of strengthening the capacities of national…
Africa’s science-granting councils are failing women
Equality-promoting funding policies “still in their infancy”, review finds Many national bodies disbursing African research funding grants are failing to address gender imbalances in their support, a review paper has found. The paper, published in April in the journal Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, assessed gender policies and practices across 15 African science-granting councils.…
Three lessons Rwanda needs to learn from Science Granting Councils Initiative
http://rwandadispatch.com/three-lessons-rwanda-needs-to-learn-from-science-granting-councils-initiative/
Rwanda STI investments spur innovation and Science-Industry collaboration
During the second phase of the Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI2) which begun in 2018, NCST is emphasizing the use of robust science, technology and innovation (STI) to strengthening its capacity through knowledge exchange with other national science councils in Africa. https://rwandadispatch.com/rwanda-sti-investments-spur-innovation-and-science-industry-collaboration/
