PASGR Blog

Partnerships. Synergies. Everyone who attended the most recent Africa Policy Center’s (APC) public lecture likely left thinking about these two key words. The lecture, held in the International Christian Medical Institute (ICMI) hall of the Uganda Christian University (UCU) main campus (Mukono), featured Dr. Anthony Mveyanga, development economist and policy advisor. Making a case for partnerships, Mveyange said they help […]

PASGR is recruiting a Senior MEARL Officer to help us gather, interpret, use and communicate evidence on the impact of a growing portfolio of activities across our Programmes. Informed by the OECD DAC criteria principles, the incumbent will oversee the collection and communication of meaningful, high-quality data about PASGR’s interventions; ensuring the organisation’s activities remain […]

Dramatic COVID-19-inspired changes – upended economies, exacerbated job losses, inequalities, major social deprivation and accelerated digital transformation – occurring in the structure and scope of higher education institutions have put a premium on responsiveness to change. As open systems, universities are affected by contingencies in their environment, including complex demands, which they have to respond […]

PASGR’s Accountability for Water(A4W) consortium which includes; Oxfam Water Witness International, KEWASNET, Shahidi wa Maji, WaterAid and Water Integrity Network (WIN) published its first A4W paper. This paper provides a global review of evidence on the outcomes of accountability and advocacy interventions for improved water and sanitation service delivery, water resource management (WRM) sector governance, and the factors which […]

Young people have been challenged to reduce reliance on production but embrace different value chains in mango and potato farming to create employment and grow wealth. A study on youth agripreneurs engaged in potato and mango value chains in Makueni, Nyandarua and West Pokot Counties stated that addressing challenges young people face in agribusiness could […]

Education is a critical social policy issue that has attracted global attention since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. With outcomes such as the closure of various learning institutions disrupting teaching and learning.   With the disruption of learning, Kenya’s Higher Education (HE), deployed different distance learning strategies that included a mix of technologies, making […]

The Utafiti Sera houses have continued to register impact on various fronts, for instance, ongoing houses (Urban Governance house Nairobi, Urban Governance house Kigali, and Youth Employment Creation House in Kenya) continued to expand frontiers of evidence-based convenings, providing important platforms for policy actors as well as researchers to engage to rethink policy work across […]

BACKGROUND  I am a Physiotherapy educator with no background training in education and pedagogy. The only orientation I had when I was employed was on what was expected of me and how to balance my teaching with research to facilitate promotion. Teaching for me was therefore, learning on the job and ensuring contents were covered. […]

BACKGROUND  I was appointed in 2018 by the Maseno University Chief Executive to be a Learner Support Assistant (LSA) for School of Arts and Social Sciences’ (SASS) programs for e-Campus online learners. This appointment came as a surprise to me since though I was competent in using computers I was not aware of anything dealing […]

In the University of Jos, when I was recruited as an academic staff, there was no form of any intervention training on Course Design, Course Facilitation and Authentic Assessment. This was the scenario until the intervention from the Partnership for Africa Social and Governance Research (PASGR) through PedaL that aimed at innovative transformative pedagogy in […]