Projects

Operationalising a Just Transition in Africa (OJTA)

The Operationalising a Just Transition in Africa (OJTA) research project is funded by the International…

Governing SDG Interactions in East-Africa

This project aims to support inclusive and effective SDG implementation in East Africa by studying…

Accelerating Climate Adaptation via Meso-level Integration (ACAMI)

Background Together with ACDI and ASU, ARIN will be the part of the ACAMI core…

Locally-Led Adaptation Metrics for Africa – LAMA

In recent years, locally led adaptation has been widely recognized as an effective, efficient and…

Consultation on Communities of Practice for Transdisciplinary Research and Action in Climate Change and Health in Africa

Health and climate drivers and solutions in Africa co-exist/interact within the same social context. While…

Collaboration for the Establishment of an African Population Cohorts Consortium

Our aim is to create a transformational capability and forum on  population-based cohorts, bringing together…

Adaptation Metrics: Urgency with inclusion in global climate adaptation finance

Introduction Adapting to climate change is a vital part of protecting progress towards the Sustainable…

Institutional Commercialisation Support

Introduction Successful innovation requires enabling system that facilitates commercialisation of such innovations.  These include enabling…

Operationalisation of Online Bridge for Strengthening the Collaboration Between Industry and Academia in Kenya Innovation

Objective and Expected Areas of Focus Overall Objective The Science Technology and Innovation Metrics Assessment…

Re-addressing equity through evidence – driven COVID-19 recovery planning

Introduction There is increasing consciousness that the COVID-19 pandemic coexists and interacts with other risks,…

Situational Analysis for Transnational Cooperative Climate Initiatives In Africa

Scope of the work The project aims at mapping the landscape of sectoral and cooperative…

The Inaugural Kenya Innovation Outlook Study

Introduction Kenya is keen to build its innovation system as a catalyst to economic development.…

Developing the East African Regional STI Indicators and Web- Based Electronic Database

Project Summary The development of the web-based STI indicators was based on a framework adapted…

Participatory Climate Risk Assessment in Africa’s Urban Informal Settlements, a case of Mukuru in Nairobi

Project Summary The proposed project will focus on the risk management theme where the risk…

Governing SDG interactions

Project Summary Numerous governments, businesses, and civil society organisations aim to contribute to achieving the…

Science Engagement to support Evidence Informed Policy Responses to COVID-19 in Africa.

The Africa Research and Impact Network is supporting the Africa Academy of Sciences to implement…

Sustaining and Strengthening City Climate Action in the COVID-19 crisis for a green and climate-resilient recovery (ClimateCitiesRecovery)

Project background Cities in developed and developing countries have emerged as critical actors in efforts…

The Climate Relevant Innovation System Builders (CRIBS)

Background Climate change finance mechanisms such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) were previously designed…

Africa Union Green Innovation Framework

The project involves providing technical support to the Africa Union Science Technology Commission in developing…

Strengthening Non-state Climate Action in the Global South (ClimateSouth)

The objective of the project is to map and analyze transnational and non-state climate action…

Sustainable Energy Access and Climate Action (SEACAP)

Introduction The GIZ, through ICLEI Africa, commissioned technical support for the development of the “Sustainable…

The Young African Scholars Academy (YASA) Book Project 2020

The purpose of the book project is to collect and present in coherent manner the…

AgriVoltaics Systems (AVS): Harvesting the sun-twice in East Africa

This collective research activity centres upon the assessment and implementation of agrivoltaic (AV) technologies –…

ARIN-ASH Summer School on Sustainability 2021

Decolonizing Sustainability Research  Background  In the Global South, ‘coloniality’ has long been associated with political…

Inclusive Low Emission Development (ILED)

The main objective of the ILED project was to support the inclusive development of a…

COVID-19 lessons for research and policy

The aim of the project is to put together a collection of lessons and insights…

Sustainable Partnerships on Energy (Gender and Social inclusivity in Renewable energy; Mapping of investments, adoption and use

This project looks at investments, adoption and use of renewable energy at sub-national level. It…

A Systems approach to air pollution (ASAP)

ASAP brings together leading UK, Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia researchers in air pollution, urban planning,…

The lake region economic bloc (LREB) counties climate change planning and developement for climate finance access

The focus of the LICAP (LREB integrated Climate Action Plan) is founded on key principles…

Science Technology and Innovation (STI) Metrics

Developing contextual STI data at the continental level is key for effective decision making. In…

Nationally Determined Contribution(NDC)Bilingual Finance Fellowship

The NDC Bilingual Finance Fellowship seeks to : Support, promote and train exceptional individuals from…

Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC)Explorer

To map, visualize and analyse the design of countries’ NDCs under the Paris Agreement Outputs;…

Nairobi Risk Hub (Tomorrow’s Cities; Urban risk in Transition)

The Nairobi risk hub project is part of the larger Urban Disaster Risk Hub (Tomorrow’s…

Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS)

The aim of MECS project is to catalyse the transformation of clean cooking through technological,…

Knowledge Systems and Innovation(KSI)

This project seeks to develop an understanding of knowledge systems and what works to promote…

Governance of socio-technical transformation(GOST)

The project examines past and prospective transformation efforts across the three areas of energy, agriculture,…