Completed research projects
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A History of Nigerian organized crime
Africa’s food and nutrition security: 2010-2050
Keywords: food basket ; population ; hunger ; undernutrition ; overnutrition ; agriculture ; access ; distribution ; food prices ; income ; economic value ; scenario studies ; water ; environment ; private sector ; gender ; food policy
Researchers: Akinyinka Akinyoade
Being young in times of duress in the Central African Republic
Keywords: childhood, youth, chronic insecurity, violence, reintegration, biographic narratives
Countries, location: Central African Republic, Chad
Researchers: Mirjam de Bruijn
Cooperation:
Département d’Anthropologie, Université de Bangui
External affiliates: Dr Jean Bruno Ngouflo, Département d’anthropologie de l’Université de Bangui, Crépin Marius Mouguia
Breaking down barriers to exclusion. Building capacity for lobby and advocacy for children with disabilities
Community based health insurance and the well-being of children and households in Plan communities in Togo
Keywords: Health insurance ; reproductive health ; children
Countries, location: Togo
Researchers: Marleen Dekker, André Leliveld
Funding:
Plan Nederland Plan Togo
Community-based health insurance in Ethiopia
Keywords: health insurance ; reproductive health ; health shocks
Countries, location: Ethiopia
Researchers: Marleen Dekker
External affiliates: Arjun Bedi (ISS), Zelalem Debebe (ISS), Anagaw Mebratie (ISS), Robert Sparrow (WUR), Getnet Alemu (Addis Ababa University)
Funding:
NWO Health Systems
Connecting in times of duress: understanding communication and conflict in Middle Africa’s mobile margins
Keywords: new communication and information technology ; conflict ; connections ; africa ; historical ethnography
Countries, location: Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic
Researchers: Mirjam de Bruijn
PhD Affiliates: Inge Butter
External affiliates: Leonie Meester
Funding:
WOTRO
Coping with economic crisis in Zimbabwe
Keywords: economic crisis ; social networks ; livelihoods
Countries, location: Zimbabwe
Researchers: Marleen Dekker
CORPAFROAS: Corpus Orale en Langues Afroasiatiques, Analyse Prosodique et Morphosyntaxique
Keywords: Linguistic Copora, Afroasiatic, Wolaitta, Omotic, Morphosyntax
Countries, location: Ethiopia
Researchers: Azeb Amha
EAB - East African borders
Countries, location: East Africa
ECOTAF - ecotourism in Africa
ELKEN - elections in Kenya
Countries, location: Kenya
Ethnographic Study on Mobile Money in Africa
Keywords: Mobile money, financial inclusion, unbanked, technology, mobility, connectivity, economic growth, development, bottom of the pyramid, Microfinance Institutions (MFIs), Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), Mobile Financial Services (MFS)
Countries, location: Senegal, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa), Zambia, Cameroon
Researchers: Mirjam de Bruijn
PhD Affiliates: Inge Butter
Cooperation:
SAIPAR, LARTES-IFAN
External affiliates: Senegal (LARTES-IFAN): Prof. Abdou Salam Fall (Principal investigator/Team leader), Moustapha Seye (Assistant co-ordinator), Khadidiatou Diagne, Mame Diarra Boussou Ndiaye , Zambia (SAIPAR): Dr. Marja Hinfelaar (Team leader), Caesar Cheelo, Edna Kabala-Litana , Congo DRC: Dr. Sylvie Ayimpang (Team leader), Dr. Olivier Kahola Tabu, Cameroon: Dr. Walter Gam Nkwi (Team leader), Emmanuel Ngang
Funding:
International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) & MasterCard Foundation.
FADRO – famine and drought planning among Maasai pastoralists
Grounding land governance
Keywords: land governance ; post-conflict situations ; decentralization ; land tenure ; IDPs ; institutions
Countries, location: South Sudan, Burundi, Uganda
Researchers: Han van Dijk
PhD Affiliates: Peter Justin, Doreen Kobusingye , Rosine Tchatchoua Djomo
External affiliates: Mathijs van Leeuwen
Funding:
WOTRO
Household efficiency and polygamy in rural Nigeria
Keywords: Polygamy, Intra-household collaboration, Nigeria, Behavioral experiment
Countries, location: Nigeria
Researchers: Marleen Dekker
Cooperation:
VU University Amsterdam, the University of East Anglia and the University of Nottingham.
Funding:
ASC
Amsterdam Institute for International Development
Nottingham School of Economics
University of East Anglia
Initiating and sustaining developmental regimes in Africa
Keywords: Subsaharan Africa; Asia; development; research
Researchers: Ton Dietz, André Leliveld
Cooperation:
Overseas Development Institute (ODI) [et al.]
External affiliates: David Henley (Leiden University), David Booth (APPP/ODI Research Fellow), Tim Kelsall (APPP Senior Researcher)
Funding:
Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
IS Academy
Researchers: Jan Abbink, Ton Dietz, Han van Dijk, Stephen Ellis
PhD Affiliates: Margot Leegwater, Martin van Vliet
Cooperation:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
External affiliates: Matthias Olthaar (RUG)
Islam in colonial and postcolonial Mali
Islam, politics and society in Senegal
MAALAND - Maasai pastoralism losing ground
Countries, location: Kenya
MADIS - Maasai and disability
Countries, location: Kenya
MINA - migration to Nairobi by Maasai pastoralists
Countries, location: Kenya
Mobile Africa revisited, communication, marginality and society in West, Central and Southern Africa
Keywords: mobility ; marginality ; information and communication technology ; identity ; inequality
Researchers: Mirjam de Bruijn
External affiliates: Francis Nyamnjoh (UCT), Imke Gooskens (UCT), Leonie Meester, Mayke Lolkema
Funding:
NWO Wotro SANPAD (coordinated in UCT)
Mobility, networks and institutions in the management of natural resources in contemporary Africa (phase 2)
Keywords: mobility ; resources ; South ; African elites
Researchers: Mirjam de Bruijn
External affiliates: Christopher Tankou (CML), Sara de Wit, Emmanuel Ngang
Funding:
Volkswagen Stiftung
Navigating collaboration and confrontation: success factors and constraints for CSOs in negotiation inclusion in land deals in Kenya, in the context of increased private sector importance
Keywords: Civil society organisations, advocacy, inclusive development, land deals
Countries, location: Kenya
Researchers: Marleen Dekker
Cooperation:
Radboud University Nijmegen
Moi University, Eldoret (Kenya)
ActionAid Netherlands
ActionAid Kenya
Funding:
NWO-WOTRO Assumptions Programme
New Muslim public figures and changing Muslim socialities in Africa
Keywords: Islam ; politics ; social theory
Nomads facing change: political mobilisation among Sahelian pastoralists
Keywords: Fulani, nomads, pastoralists, political participation, jihadism, conflict, resistance, ICT's, criminal networks
Countries, location: Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Sahel
Researchers: Mirjam de Bruijn, Han van Dijk
Cooperation:
Groupe Observation des Dynamiques Sociales Spatiales et Expertise Endogène (ODYSSEE), Mali
Institute de Recherche et de Promotion des Alternatives de Développement en Afrique (IRPAD/AFRIQUE), Mali
Foreign staff involved
Oumarou Adamou (Laboratoire d’études et recherches sur les dynamiques sociales et le développement local)
Mamadou Goita (IRPAD-Afrique)
Amagoin Keita (groupe ODYSSEE)
Boukary Sangaré (ODYSSEE)
Funding:
NWO-WOTRO: programme ‘Security and the Rule of Law’
PADev, participatory assessment of development: Ghana, Burkina Faso, Kenya
Keywords: Ghana ; Burkina Faso ; Kenya
Countries, location: Kenya
Researchers: Ton Dietz
Cooperation:
University of Amsterdam Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam research partners in Burkina Faso and Ghana
Funding:
ICCO Woord en Daad Prisma
Post-Apartheid South Africa: trajectories of the transition
Keywords: identity ; social networks ; social structure ; South Africa ; youth
Countries, location: South Africa
Researchers: Ineke van Kessel
Society, labour, technology and consumption: the establishment of colonial rule in Northern Rhodesia, 1890-1924.
Keywords: technology; colonial rule; consumption
Countries, location: Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa)
Researchers: Jan-Bart Gewald
External affiliates: Iva Pesa, Mary Davies
Funding:
NWO Vidi 2006 - 2011
SWIP: shallow wells improvement project
Countries, location: Kenya
TD ASILI -Tracking development history of Kenya
Countries, location: Kenya
The Black Dutchmen: African soldiers in the Dutch East Indies
Keywords: diasporas ; Ghana ; identity ; Netherlands ; slave trade
Countries, location: Ghana
Researchers: Ineke van Kessel
The governance of ‘ungoverned spaces’
Keywords: governance ; conflict ; state formation
Countries, location: South Sudan, Sahel
Researchers: Han van Dijk
The history of the African National Congress in Exile, 1960-1990
The long-term impact of violence and climate variability on food security
Keywords: Climate variability ; violence ; food security ; food production ; land tenure, anthropometrics
Countries, location: Chad
Researchers: Han van Dijk
Three decades of rural change: experiences and outcomes of Zimbabwe's Land Reform Programme
Keywords: land reform, rural households, welfare, healthcare
Countries, location: Zimbabwe
Researchers: Marleen Dekker
Cooperation:
Prof. Bill Kinsey
Funding:
NWO travel grant
African Studies Centre Leiden
Tracking Development
Keywords: Subsaharan Africa; Asia; development; research
Researchers: Akinyinka Akinyoade, Ton Dietz, André Leliveld
Cooperation:
Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies [et al.]
Funding:
Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Two Modal Categories in Omotic: the declarative and interrogative
Keywords: Modality, questioning forms, interrogative, declarative, Omotic studies
Countries, location: Ethiopia
Researchers: Azeb Amha
Funding:
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
Water-sector reforms and interventions in urban Kenya: their Impact on the livelihoods of the poor
Keywords: urban water supply ; urban poverty ; urban livelihood ; political economy
Countries, location: Kenya
Researchers: Dick Foeken
External affiliates: Dr Samuel O. Owuor, University of Nairobi, Department of Geography
Funding:
ASC
Posted on 5 April 2018, last modified on 5 April 2018