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General CD2022TEA504A103 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2027 Eastern DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo) has known over three decades of war and violence in which the population in general and women in particular became victimized in a situation of state and societal decay. Increasingly calls are made to initiate a transitional justice policy that should end the vicious cycle of violence and impunity. Aiming to contribute to the latter goal, this project focuses on an often overlooked stage that precedes transitional justice: ongoing, non-state processes of social resilience and reparation. This will…
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General CD2023SIN371A104 01/09/2023 - 31/08/2025 About 2.4 billion people in the world cook on wood, animal waste or charcoal fires because they lack sustainable fuel (solarcooker.org). While doing so, they inhale the smoke and soot known to cause health problems. This SI project wants to co-create solar cookers together with the most vulnerable communities in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and further valorize the gained knowledge. Such cookers will harness free solar energy so that people can breathe clean air and drink safe water while preserving the environment. The…
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General EC2023SIN378A101 01/09/2023 - 31/08/2025 Young children’s early math competencies are pivotal for their math performances in elementary and secondary education, their further academic and professional career, and their well-being, health and professional status at adult age. To effectively stimulate the development of these core competencies, high-quality instructional materials are needed. National and international comparative studies point to Ecuadorian children’s weak performances on academic achievement tests, also in the domain of STEM. These weak performances can be explained…
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General ZA2024TEA567A101 01/09/2024 - 31/08/2029 This project contributes to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of adolescent by improving communication on SRH, gender and sexuality between primary caregivers (parents and guardians) and their early adolescent children. It contextualizes and adapts the content of an intervention developed in Uganda to the urban Western Cape context in South Africa. Community engagement, participatory research and a systems approach underpin the adaptation development and uptake strategy of the intervention. The intervention, which will be piloted and…
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General ET2022TEA513A103 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2027 This project takes a Communication for Development-approach, bringing in ‘Oral Literature for Development’ (OL4D) as a new line of thinking in this. We introduce OL4D firmly based on the belief that Culture and Creativity are central for all people’s development and on the need to consider fiction as an influential source of knowledge for development (c.f. Lewis et. al. 2008). As a team, we see huge potential in the cultural-historical ways in which people have dealt with crisis situations through their history of literary expression, but at…
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General PE2022TEA518A102 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2027 Malaria is one of the most important infectious disease in Peru but now there is a National Malaria Elimination plan launched by the government. This plan requires from research-based evidence to adapt the strategies ‘on the road’ to malaria elimination scenario. Therefore, we aim to continue and deepen our efforts to provide relevant evidence for malaria elimination in Peru by promoting and empowering the partnership of Amazonian public universities and local, regional and national public health institutions. We seek to potentiate the…
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General CU2023SIN370A102 01/09/2023 - 31/08/2025 Dengue incidence is increasing worldwide, and the severity of disease appears to be worsening. In 2022 Cuba suffered one of the largest and difficult dengue outbreaks in recent years, with a considerable part of the population infected and many presented life-threatening complications. In a previous VLIR-SI project a questionnaire was generated and validated for studying how habits, life styles and environmental factors affect the clinical evolution of viral diseases in the Cuban population. Its application to dengue and COVID-19 Cuban patients…
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General ZA2022SIN355A103 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2024 WHO Collaborating Centre (WHO-CC) is a title granted to research institutes due to their contribution to the World Health Organization's programmes at large. Globally, most WHO-CCs for Family Medicine (FM) and Primary Care (PC) are located in high-income countries, with no representation from the African region. Our project aims to set up a new collaboration of the tandem UGent-Stellenbosch University with 2 Sub-Saharan African institutions with expertise on PC and FM and enable these institutes to become WHO-CCs. The prestige of becoming a WHO…
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General UG2022SIN358A103 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2024 This two-year project will facilitate the development of a competence-based curriculum (CBC) and production of course modules for the Master of Science Degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Mountains of the Moon University. The combination of skills in both epidemiology and biostatistics will ensure correct and cost-effective collection, analysis and interpretation of epidemiological research data thereby providing valuable evidence to guide public health policy and decision-making processes. Capacity building in statistics is a key…