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DelPHE round three projects
38 projects were supported under round three (2008-2011); of these 29 were from Africa and 9 from Asia. Participating countries are listed below in alphabetical order.

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Afghanistan
Partners: Kabul University, Afghanistan - Sheffield University, UK
Title/ Subject Area: Use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Education and Training in HE sector
Summary/ Aim: To promote the development of interactive and user-friendly software facilities and skills allowing virtual and on-line learning to assist with teaching and research activities within the engineering and science education sector.

Afghanistan
Partners: Kabul Medical University, Afghanistan - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), UK - Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Iran - Merlin (Medical Emergency Relief International), Afghanistan
Title/ Subject Area: Curriculum building in public health for medical students in Afghanistan
Summary/ Aim: To develop and implement a new curriculum for KMU to improve theory, practice and awareness in Public Health

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Bangladesh
Partners: Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh - Royal University of Hull, UK - Unnayan Uddog, NGO, Bangladesh
Title/ Subject Area: Food Security through Community Food Bank and Employment Generation: An Action Research in Natural Disaster Prone Areas in Northern Bangladesh
Summary/ Aim: Capacity will be built at Jahangirnagar University through research, education and training. At the community level the project aims to establish a community food bank, to increase income and employment in the non-formal sectors
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China
Partners: Energy Research Institute (ERI), China - Imperial College London, UK - Tsinghua University, China; Yunnan Normal University
Title/ Subject Area: Improve Rural Livelihoods in Western China by Renewable Energy Promotion & Climate Change Communication
Summary/ Aim: To plan and conduct livelihoods assessment and to communicate environmental climate change risks for promoting off-grid sustainable energy interventions in rural Yunnan.

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Democratic Republic of Congo
Partners: University of Kinshasa, DRC - University of Warwick, UK
Title/ Subject Area: Childhood survival in the Democratic Republic of Congo: What can be learnt from household surveys
Summary/ Aim: Identify province-level variation in the DRC mortality rates and the amount of variation due to conflict and environmental causes.

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Ethiopia
Partners: Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia - University of Toronto, Canada - Imperial College London, UK
Title/ Subject Area: An Inter-professional, Educational, Leadership and Skills Training Program
Summary/ Aim: To create continuous cohorts of training experts in surgery, gynaecology, and obstetrics.

Ethiopia
Partners: Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia - University of Toronto, Canada - Kings College, UK
Title/ Subject Area: Strengthening the capacity and sustainability of mental health research, training and practice in Ethiopia
Summary/ Aim: To expand capacity in Ethiopia for mental health training and education, treatment and practice, support for newly graduated psychiatrists outside of Addis Ababa to open the first regional departments of psychiatry.

Ethiopia
Partners: Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia - Leeds Metropolitan University, UK - Adama University, Ethiopia
Title/ Subject Area: Development of institutional qualifications framework in Bahir Dar & Adama
Summary/ Aim: Establish a credit based curriculum system for the university sector in Ethiopia and institutional experts trained and ready to act as in-house and cascade trainers.

Ethiopia
Partners: Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia - University of Southampton, UK
Title/ Subject Area: Collaboration to develop a self sustaining programme of dermatology training in Ethiopia
Summary/ Aim: Establish a new postgraduate dermatology nursing programme; a new postgraduate sub specialisation in dermatology and dermatovenereology.

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Ghana
Partners: University for Development Studies, Ghana - Harper Adams University College, UK
Title/ Subject Area: Design and implement a problem-based learning course in practical animal nutrition
Summary/ Aim: To design, validate and introduce a problem based animal nutrition course for undergraduate students and up skill technical staff in the nutritional evaluation of feedstuffs, feed processing and animal experimentation.

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India
Partners: University of Calcutta, India - University of Glasgow, UK - University of Edinburgh, UK - Institute for Democracy, Malawi
Title/ Subject Area: Exploring the relationship between women’s political empowerment and poverty reduction
Summary/ Aim:Provide a greater insight in the question of empowerment. Developing more participatory, qualitative research tools for the mapping and analysing of women’s power / lack of power over the poverty reduction agenda.

India
Partners Bengal Engineering and Science University, India - Queen's University Belfast, UK - Institute of Environmental Management & Studies, India
Title/ Subject Area: Capacity building for technological solution and training to improve groundwater resources management in arsenic affected areas of eastern India
Summary/ Aim: This project will build capacity and enhance co-operation in science and technology for sustainable use of water resources in the arsenic affected areas of eastern India.

India
Partners: Pearl Academy of Fashion, India - Northumbria University, UK - Dastkar (NGO), India
Title/ Subject Area: Sustainability and Equitable Development: Interventions in India’s Rural Craft Industry
Summary/ Aim: To support the development of indigenous, localised, networked and structured women’s’ crafts enterprises and to undertake initiatives to assist economic advancement to facilitate the process of social equity and eco-efficient innovation.

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Kenya
Partners University of Nairobi, Kenya - University of Leicester, UK - University of Florence, Italy - International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Netherlands - Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania - Bournemouth University, UK - University of Insubria, Italy - University of Calabria, Italy - European Regional Centre for Ecology, UNESCO, Poland - University of Dublin, Ireland
Title/ Subject Area: Field IT for East Africa
Summary/ Aim: To revise the undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Sustainable Water Management and increase the availability of resources for sustainable management of wetlands.
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Kenya
Partners: Kenyatta University, Kenya - National University of Rwanda, Rwanda - Makerere University, Uganda - University of Kordofan, Sudan - Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania
Title/ Subject Area: Inter university collaboration to strengthen human and institutional capacity in Eastern and Central African countries emerging from conflict
Summary/ Aim: Strengthen HEI capacity in education and training in agricultural research and development and contribute to rebuilding human and institutional capacity in Sudan and Rwanda.

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Malawi
Partners: University of Malawi, Malawi - University of Leeds, UK - University of Botswana, Botswana - Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Malawi -  Action Aid Malawi NGO, Malawi
Title/ Subject Area: Capacity building in climate change skills and rural livelihoods in Malawi and Botswana
Summary/ Aim: To develop capacity in Malawi and Botswana for research and teaching into issues of climate change adaptability, vulnerability and rural livelihoods.

Malawi
Partners: Mzuzu University, Malawi - Scottish Agricultural College (SAC), UK
Title/ Subject Area: Enhancing modern dairy farming practices for sustainable land use, environmental protection and improved rural livelihoods in Mzimba District – Malawi.
Summary/ Aim: To develop and disseminate best practice in diary farming and establish a university dairy demonstration unit.

Malawi
Partners: University of Malawi - University of Strathclyde, UK
Title/ Subject Area: Developing Quality Assurance Processes at the University of Malawi
Summary/ Aim: Establish university based Quality Assurance Units to ensure the maintenance and development of quality and standards in learning and teaching across the Universites.

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Nigeria
Partners: University of Nigeria, Nigeria - University of Reading, UK - African Institute for Applied Economics, Nigeria
Title/ Subject Area: Developing a framework for agricultural adaptation to climate change in southern Nigeria
Summary/ Aim: Improve the capacity of staff and students to deal with the effects of climate change in agriculture and build a framework for mitigating the effects of climate change in agriculture.

Nigeria
Partners: University of Abuja, Nigeria - Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK - Federal University of Hawassa, Ethiopia -  Zankli Medical Centre, Nigeria
Title/ Subject Area: Developing Institutional capacity: Diagnostic needs of excluded patients with pulmonary TB
Summary/ Aim: Conduct and disseminate TB–related research to enhance the quality of health services of excluded populations through the provision of training in research methods.

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Pakistan
Partners: University of Karachi, Pakistan - University of Dundee, UK - National Institute for Soils and Fertilizers (NISF), Vietnam
Title/ Subject Area: Development of eco-friendly, cost effective bio-fertilizers: a step towards sustainable agriculture
Summary/ Aim: To develop eco-friendly, widely-applicable, bio-fertilizers to increase the yield of cash crops, to save foreign exchange, to increase soil fertility, and to reduce environmental pollution in countries having similar climatic conditions.
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Rwanda
Partners: Kigali Institute of Education, Rwanda - University of Nottingham, UK
Title/ Subject Area: Education for Community Cohesion
Summary/ Aim: Develop formal and non-formal ways of promoting community cohesion as a means to enhance peace and citizenship education.
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South Africa
Partners: University of Western Cape (UWC), South Africa - London Metropolitan University, UK
Title/ Subject Area: Capacity building of practicing health professionals through distance learning programmes that adopt an emphasis on health determinants and health systems
Summary/ Aim: Build capacity of staff and students to move from a biomedical emphasis towards a social model of health through curriculum improvement.

South Africa
Partners: Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), South Africa - University of Strathclyde, UK - Moi University, Kenya - University of Malawi, Malawi – Kenyatta University, Kenya - Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Health Sciences, Tanzania  - University of Swaziland, Swaziland
Title/ Subject Area: Establish an Africa Academy for Environmental Health (AAEH) to develop environmental health curricula and accredited programmes
Summary/ Aim: Determine the extent of environmental health provision within each SADC country and establish environmental health programmes.

South Africa
Partners: University of Cape Town, South Africa - Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, Italy
Title/ Subject Area: Strategic urban design education and professional capacity development aimed at promoting MDGs
Summary/ Aim: Develop urban design knowledge and expertise in development projects.

Sudan
Partners: University of Gezira, Sudan - Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust, UK - Ministry of Health, Sudan
Title/ Subject Area: Upgrade community level health services in Gezira state
Summary/ Aim: Upgrade community level health services in Gezira state through training of health personnel, consultants, teaching staff, senior nurses, senior midwives and medical students

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Tanzania
Partners: Muhimbili University of Health & Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Tanzania - Tanzania Library Service (TLS), Tanzania - Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, UK - Partnerships in Health Information, UK
Title/ Subject Area: Strengthening health information and library services in Tanzania
Summary/ Aim: Contribute to improve health in Tanzania through strengthening health information and library services through new undergraduate and postgraduate modules.

Tanzania
Partners: Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Science (MUHAS), Tanzania - Oxford University, UK - Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya - Whittington Hospital, UK
Title/ Subject Area: Translating Knowledge into Practice: Haematology and Blood Transfusion services in Tanzania
Summary/ Aim: Improve health care in Tanzania to deliver quality teaching, increase the number of health care workers trained and quality of training in blood disease and transfusion.

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Uganda
Partners: Makerere University, Uganda - Ministry of Education & Sports, Uganda - Open University, UK
Title/ Subject Area: Enhancing the quality of education in primary schools in Uganda through Community Participation
Summary/ Aim: Improve the quality and performance of basic education in Uganda through development of a community based approach to school management and governance.

Uganda
Partners: Makerere University, Uganda - University of Strathclyde, UK
Title/ Subject Area: Strengthening the competitiveness of the Tourism and Hospitality Enterprises & Education in Uganda
Summary/ Aim: Produce professionals in the tourism sector and create awareness of the strategic value of good tourism education through industry specific short courses.

Uganda
Partners: Makerere University, Uganda - School of Oriental and African Studies, UK - Gulu University, Uganda -  Association for the Advancement of HE & Development (AHEAD), Uganda
Title/ Subject Area: Training students and teachers to write & illustrate bi-lingual books for primary school children in Uganda
Summary/ Aim: Support the Ugandan government to resettle the population in northern Uganda and rebuild destroyed schools ensuring that children have access to universal primary education.
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Uganda
Partners: Makerere University, Uganda - Bangor University, UK
Title/ Subject Area: Strengthening institutional capacity for teaching, research and outreach in agroforestry and eco-agriculture
Summary/ Aim: Develop a curriculum for short courses, review the agroforestry curriculum and build capacity of Makerere Forestry academic staff to teach, conduct research and disseminate information on agroforestry and eco-agriculture.

Uganda
Partners: Makerere University, Uganda - School of Finance and Banking, Rwanda – University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania - Moi University, Kenya - Wageningen University, The Netherlands - Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Title/ Subject Area: Pro-Poor Tourism Research Capacity Building and Knowledge Exchange for East Africa
Summary/ Aim: To develop a research and information sharing network to inform Pro-Poor Tourism policy debates in East Africa and the wider global community.

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Vietnam
Partners: Livestock Research and Development Centre (LRDC), Vietnam - Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (MLURI), UK - Centre for Livestock and Agriculture Development (CelAgrid), Cambodia - Goat and Rabbit Research Centre (GRRC), Vietnam
Title/ Subject Area: Enhancing livelihoods of poor farmers through goat community rearing system
Summary/ Aim: Train and transfer information to poor farmers through a new community goat rearing system to enhance income and contribute to environmental protection.
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Zambia
Partners: Chainama Hills College, Zambia - Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Title/ Subject Area: Developing the mental health workforce in Zambia to meet the challenge of a new Mental Health Policy
Summary/ Aim: Develop a new certificate in Community Mental Health at Chainama College, including opportunities for updating/ training staff currently working at the college.

Zambia
Partners: University of Zambia, Zambia - University of New England, Australia, United Nations International Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF), Zambia - Ministry of Education and Sports, Zambia - Kyambogo University (KYU), Uganda
Title/ Subject Area: Developing Zambian and Ugandan Teacher Trainers in Multi-grade Education
Summary/ Aim: Revise the multi-grade education modules for HEIs, primary classrooms at certificate and diploma level to enhance education in rural and remote parts of Zambia and Uganda.

Zimbabwe
Partners: University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), UK - Ministry of Agriculture, Zimbabwe - Environment Management Authority (EMA), Zimbabwe, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe
Title/ Subject Area: Strengthening environmental education in agricultural colleges in Zimbabwe
Summary/ Aim:Develop new diploma level courses and incorporate into the National Diploma in Agriculture. Encourage farmers to implement more sustainable environmental practices.

Zimbabwe
Partners: Lupane State University, Zimbabwe - Matopo Research Station, Zimbabwe -  International Centre for Development Oriented Research in Agriculture(ICRA), South Africa   - University of Fort Hare, South Africa
Title/ Subject Area: Promotion of indigenous and exotic poultry production for food security
Summary/ Aim: Transform indigenous subsistence poultry production to a market oriented activity to enhance food security and help eradicate poverty in rural communities.

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