Objective The overall objective of the African Rural-City Connections (RurbanAfrica) project is to explore the connections between rural transformations, mobility, and urbanization processes and analyze how these contribute to an understanding of the scale, nature and location of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. The RurbanAfrica project will advance the research agenda on rural-city connections in sub-Saharan Africa by addressing a range of crucial components: agricultural transformations, rural livelihoods, city dynamics, and access to services in cities. In this respect the project will challenge a number of generally accepted ‘truths’ about rural and city development, and the importance and implication of migration in shaping these. It will thereby question the overall negative interpretations of the economic role of rural-urban mobility and migration in sub-Saharan Africa and generate new insights into the relationship between rural-city connections and poverty dynamics. The project will include nine partners; four European, one international, and four sub-Saharan African. RurbanAfrica focuses on four country cases: Rwanda, Tanzania, Cameroon and Ghana and examine in-depth two rural-city connections in each of the case countries. Research is organized into six work packages: Agricultural transformation, rural livelihoods, city dynamics, access to services, knowledge platform and policy dialogue, and synthesis, dissemination and management. Central to the approach is the on-going integration of policy research, policy dialogue, knowledge sharing and empirical research. Through ongoing collaboration between senior and junior researchers from European and sub-Saharan African partners, and co-supervising of PhD students, the project will contribute to capacity building and potentially impact curriculum development. The research and dissemination process will be supported by a scientific advisory board, with members from European and sub-Saharan African research institutions. Programme(s) FP7-SSH - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities Topic(s) SSH.2011.4.1-2 - Connections between rural areas and cities in Sub-Saharan Africa Call for proposal FP7-SSH-2011-2 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP-SICA - Small/medium-scale focused research project for specific cooperation actions dedicated to international cooperation partner countries(SICA) Coordinator KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET Address Norregade 10 1165 Kobenhavn Denmark See on map Region Danmark Hovedstaden Byen København Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Ivan Kristoffersen (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Participants (10) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all National University of Rwanda Participation ended Rwanda EU contribution € 0,00 Address Butare See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Adrie Mukashema (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT Netherlands EU contribution € 393 195,75 Address Heidelberglaan 8 3584 CS Utrecht See on map Region West-Nederland Utrecht Utrecht Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Bas Leeflang (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY United Kingdom EU contribution € 392 253,60 Address Ashby road LE11 3TU Loughborough See on map Region East Midlands (England) Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire Leicestershire CC and Rutland Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Raymond Kent (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT United Kingdom EU contribution € 164 400,00 Address 235 third floor 235 high holborn WC1V 7LE London See on map Region London Inner London — West Camden and City of London Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Stephanie Ray (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSITE TOULOUSE II-JEAN JAURES France EU contribution € 274 800,00 Address Allees antonio machado 5 31058 Toulouse See on map Region Occitanie Midi-Pyrénées Haute-Garonne Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Annie Soulie Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA Rwanda EU contribution € 162 960,00 Address Po box 4285 Kigali See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Adrie Mukashema (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data Sokoine University of Agriculture Tanzania EU contribution € 134 990,00 Address Sokoine university of agriculture Morogoro See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Vedasto R.M. Muhikambele (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSITE DE DSCHANG Cameroon EU contribution € 128 720,00 Address Universite de dschang 237 Dschang See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Noutchieu Noutchieu Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSITY OF GHANA Ghana EU contribution € 148 400,00 Address Legon boundary road N/A Legon accra See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Ernest Aryeetey (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data ARDHI UNIVERSITY Tanzania EU contribution € 42 930,00 Address Ardhi university - Dar es salaam See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Eliuter Mwageni (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data
