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A key aspect of PASGR’s sustainability goal is to diversify its funding, enhance value for money in all activities, and increase cost effectiveness and efficiency. The year under review was a step further in this direction as PASGR gained recognition as a charity under US laws. PASGR applied for tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of […]

Wangui Kimari, our first-ever intern, describes her one-year attachment to the Professional Training and Development (PDT) Programme as “very dynamic”. The PhD candidate at York University in Canada says “PASGR does a lot, but what it does is not always explicit.” PASGR’s social protection work, for instance, is not research to be kept on a […]

Rethinking and revamping its programmes and activities in line with PASGR’s Strategic Plan 2014-2018 was a major preoccupation of the Professional Development and Training programme (PDT) in 2015. Innovations in the design of delivery, content, pedagogy and the coordination of the courses were key elements that emerged in the latter part of the year. The […]

Prof Funmi Olonisakin is the newest member of PASGR’s Research Committee. She replaces Prof Achola Pala Okeyo, whose tenure ended in the year under review. A holder of a PhD from King’s College London, Olonisakin is a Professor of Security, Leadership and Development at King’s College. She is the founding director of the African Leadership […]

The year 2015 saw the Research Programme (RP) reconfigure its operations to enhance and ensure high quality, cost effective programmes. The programme maintained its efforts at ensuring quality control for all its products and integrating policy actors into its work to facilitate the use of research findings. In this regard, 14 policy research reports were […]

When 417 people turn up for a conference planned for 250 participants, that is success! This was what happened at the First National Forum on Harnessing the Data Revolution on Sustainable Development, which Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto opened. The conference, held from August 28 to 29, was a landmark activity of the Professional Development […]

Prof Audrey Gadzekpo credits PASGR for its leadership in making university staff realise that their mission goes beyond teaching to making a return on investment to the taxpayer. While teaching may be academics’ primary calling, the University of Ghana professor and Dean at the School of Communication Studies, who has had a relationship with PASGR […]

Dr Seidu Mahama Alidu’s experience with the case teaching method stretches back to 2013. That is when he attended a workshop that “completely changed my career as an academic and a teacher,” he says. Although Orientation to Case Study Teaching was just one of the offerings at the MRPP workshop, the political science lecturer from […]

Communications & Outreach The year under review saw PASGR implement a Strategic Plan recommendation to delink its communications function from the Professional Development and Training Programme. The Communications and Outreach Unit is charged with enhancing PASGR’s institutional and external communications, facilitating the creation of policy and research communities and implementing PASGR’s digital platforms. It was […]

Jan 19-20 Design Shop on Building Capacity for African Development Data Jan 22-23 Sixth Master of Research and Public Policy [MRPP] Steering Committee Feb 11-19 Multi-Method Research Course 5 and 6 training Apr13 Research Policy Practitioners Forum on Social Protection in Kenya Apr16-17 PASGR Board of Directors Meeting Apr18-19 Inception Workshop on Urban Governance and […]