Contact Info
- 6th Floor, I & M Building 2nd Ngong Avenue, Upper Hill
- +254 (0)20 2985000; +254 (0)729 111031 / +254 (0)731 000065
- info@pasgr.org
- Office Hrs: Today 9.00am to 6.00pm
Popularly known as the Methods Institute, PASGR’s Professional Development and Training (PDT) represents an innovative and experiential professional training that strengthens skills and competencies of researchers and policy actors. This is in line with PASGR’s core mission of advancing research excellence for governance and public policy in Africa. The Programme focuses on tooling and retooling […]
On Friday 8 July 2022, in collaboration with Keble College at the University of Oxford and the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust, NatCen International hosted a roundtable discussion on the opportunities and challenges of strengthening gender-inclusive climate action within the context of intersecting crises in Africa. While there is growing evidence on the intersecting crises of climate change, conflict and displacement, […]
Addressing Africa’s developmental challenges calls for a unique African perspective in the contextualization of policy priorities to spur the continent into sustainable trajectories of growth and development. As a Pan African institution established in 2011, PASGR is mandated to enhance research excellence in governance and public policy. With a footprint in over 20 African countries; […]
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 […]
BACKGROUND When COVID-19 struck the world, various States never predicted the devastating effects the pandemic was going to cause to our economies. Most frustrating happened when learning came to a standstill due to the closure of learning institutions. At my University (Riara University-Kenya) we had started online classes before the pandemic but lessons were not […]
BACKGROUND public universities in kenya, and in most african countries, have grown exponentially in numbers in the last three decades. this may not be matched with prerequisite resources for quality teaching and learning. the choice of pedagogical methods therefore becomes tricky for most faculty. studies have shown that in such environment, the more preferred option […]
6th Floor, I & M Building
2nd Ngong Avenue, Upper Hill
P.O. Box 76418-00508
Nairobi, Kenya
Email: info@pasgr.org
Tel: +254 (0)20 2985000;
+254 (0)729 111031 / +254 (0)731 000065
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