Innovation – SGCI

Low-tech health app engages the hard-to-reach

1. App created in Mozambique helps people in remote areas access health information 2. The mobile app is aiding disease prevention and control in Mozambique 3. But getting financial support for sustaining the app is a challenge [LAGOS] Five years...

October 24, 2023

2022 Cooperation Projects News Private Sector Engagement

Lusaka students offer cheaper ventilator

Countries worst affected by the Covid-19 pandemic are trying to procure lung ventilation equipment, which assists or replaces breathing for critically ill patients, pumping oxygen into the blood to keep organs functioning. Arising from the above scenario, a group of...

May 28, 2022

2021 Cooperation Projects News

Research Pathway to solving Zim’s energy crisis

Energy is at the heart of all efforts aimed at attaining the country’s Vision 2030 of becoming an upper middle income economy, as well as a major driving force behind the attainment of all Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs).

May 26, 2022

Cooperation Projects News

The Science Granting Council Initiative: A catalyst for more research projects

The Science Granting Council Initiative is now in its second phase and drawing experience from seven years, Science Granting Councils and their partners have not only learned a lot from implementing various projects but are now better placed to venture...

May 25, 2022

Cooperation Projects News

Research projects promoting Tanzania’s industrialization agenda.

When the late President John Magufuli delivered a speech to inaugurate the new Parliament at the end of 2015, he stressed that industrialization was a key priority of the government and that industries producing goods such as clothes, textiles and...

May 24, 2022

2022 Cooperation Projects News

Mozambique’s cows set to drive local yogurt industry

Fifty-four year old Agripa Congolo dumped his well-paying job as a painter in South Africa and returned to his homeland in Xai xai, Mozambique’s southern province of Gaza to take care of his father’s livestock following his death in 1992. Since then, Congolo...

May 23, 2022

2022 Cooperation Projects News

Mozambique’s native fruit drives bright future for vulnerable communities

Martinha spends 80 Meticais (2.54) for a round trip to buy a 20 litre bucket of both Mapfilua or Monkey oranges and then sells in small portions for 50 meticais ($.79 cents). These fruits and plants are turning into a...

May 18, 2022

2022 Cooperation Projects News

Mozambique’s FNI at slow pace as Namibia is analyzing the PUCFPFPF agreement

The University of Maputo (Mozambique) in Namibia, UNAM has no finalized the joint project that was carried out bu the Agricultural Research Institute of Mozambique (IIAM) and the University of Namibia, UNAM titled: Processing, Upscaling and Commercialization of Derivative Food...

May 1, 2022