Completed research projects

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A History of Nigerian organized crime

Keywords: crime ; politics

Countries, location: Nigeria

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

Researchers: Willem Elbers

Cooperation:

Liliane Foundation.


Funding:

Liliane Foundation.

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


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

Countries, location: Kenya, Tanzania

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)


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


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

Countries, location: Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria

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

Cooperation:

Ministry of Foreign Affairs


External affiliates: Matthias Olthaar (RUG)

Islam in colonial and postcolonial Mali

Keywords: religion ; islam ; history

Countries, location: Mali

Islam, politics and society in Senegal

Keywords: Islam ; politics

Countries, location: Senegal

Researchers: Mayke Kaag

Funding:

IRP

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

Countries, location: Chad, Cameroon, Mali, Senegal, Angola, Namibia, South Africa

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

Countries, location: Cameroon, Tanzania, Namibia

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


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


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

Keywords: history ; ANC ; liberation movements.

Countries, location: South Africa

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

Countries, location: Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria


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