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The Federal Government has been urged to employ the services of Nigerian social scientists to tackle the problems of insecurity, unemployment, and poverty in the country. The Executive Director, Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) Professor Tade Aina advised the government to employ social scientists in developing solutions to poverty, unemployment, and insecurity […]

Executive Director, Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) Professor Tade Aina has declared that Nigeria needs the services of Social Scientists for solution to find solutions poverty, unemployment and insecurity problem in the country. Professor Aina who said this while delivering the postgraduate college, University of Ibadan Interdisciplinary discourse lecture entitled “The social […]

Even as countries and institutions move towards basing their interventions on evidence derived from research, contextualizing this evidence is core to addressing the issue. Dr. Tade Akin Aina, the Executive Director of Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) emphasized that institutionalizing of Evidence is not absolute. Context matters in evidence research. Dr. Tade was […]

There is a world of difference between employment and underemployment. A lot of data from different research outfits such as findings of a report titled: Charting the path for a youth apprenticeship policy: Lessons from Utafiti Sera House on Youth Employment Creation in Agriculture in Kenya by Centre for African Bio-entrepreneurship (CABE), found that there […]

Evidence-informed policy making and Kenya’s Big 4 Agenda

The objective of the forum was to share lessons, experiences and build consensus on Policy Recommendations in supporting Youth Employment Creation in Agriculture and Agro-processing in Kenya.  

Research findings have shown that almost half of the city of Kigali population is directly affected by poor waste management and sanitation, especially from slum areas. Findings from the 3rd research forum on Urban Governance and City Transformation (Utafiti Sera) showed that the 43.6%  of one million Kigali residents use unimproved sanitary facilities – a […]

This study focuses on the Bring Back Our Girls movement (BBOG) which began in 2014 following the abduction of 300 girls by Boko Haram, and became a global social media and substantial political phenomenon. The study led by PASGR aims to contribute to understandings of women’s action, digital activism, vertical scaling and norms, and values. The research […]

Something exciting is happening in higher education in Africa. Unlike basic education where the curriculum is centralized and often changed at whim, the higher education curriculum tends to be stabilized for a longer time. Universities also have the right to select what to teach, who to teach and how to teach. But in there lies […]

Course Dates: April 3rd – April 18th  2019 Training Location: Nairobi, Kenya Contact Person: nirungu@www.pasgr.org The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research is currently accepting applications for the April, 2019 Advanced Training for Multi-Method and Policy Oriented Research. This includes: Advanced Research Design Applied Quantitative Research Methods Comparative Case Study Analysis This training is relevant to […]