The African Development Bank has through funding from the African Development Fund’s (ADF) Regional Public Goods window, initiated a training and research capacity building programme which has awarded 90 Master’s and five PhD scholarships to further strengthen the capacity of inclusive and green growth policy formulation in Africa.
A total estimated grant of $6.8 million was used to boost the Research Capacity and Knowledge Enhancement for Africa’s Transformation Project implemented by the African Economic Research Consortium.
A total of 100 persons were beneficiaries of the graduate training programme which was initiated between 2016 and 2019.
The beneficiaries of the training programme included post graduate students, researchers, some tertiary institutions, policy makers and non-government organizations.
The project beneficiaries were from African countries including Nigeria, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia among others.
The programme has enabled graduate training in areas related to inclusive and green growth. An advancement was also made in the quality of research and policy dialogue capacity on the continent which provided a platform for exchange of ideas among policy makers.
According to the African Development Bank, about 17 universities were given institutional support to acquire teaching equipment and six doctoral scholarships were awarded, while 110 university lecturers received professional development to be better prepared for emerging issues in their disciplines.
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