Objective one:
CAPACITY BUILDING
Enhance capacity building for economic policy research and graduate
training in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Enhance capacity building for economic policy research and graduate training in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
- Improving capacity for policy oriented research.
- Strengthening technical capacity for research and training.
- The Bridge Programme.
- Blended learning platform development, content development: CMAAE and CMAP.
- Grant awards for postgraduate training.
- PhD thesis research workshops organized, and grants awarded.
- Joint Facility for Electives (JFE) & Shared Facility for Specialization and Electives (SFSE).
- Quality assurance of graduate training: comprehensive examinations for CPP.
- Academic Advisory Board (AAB) meetings for CMAAE, CMAP and CPP.
- Joint enforcement of standards through monitoring visits.
- Visiting lectureships to CMAP Category C and CPP Universities, and to post-conflict and fragile states.
- CMAAE Faculty Exchange Programme.
- CMAAE Faculty Research Support Programme.
- Departmental institutional support to CMAP, CMAAE, and CPP universities.
- Government of Kenya (GoK)/ AERC Capacity Building Project for Policy Analysis.
Thematic Research Areas
1. Poverty, Labour Markets, and Income Distribution
2. Macroeconomic Policy and Growth
3. Finance and Resource Mobilization
4. Production, Trade and Economic Integration
5. Agriculture, Climate Change and Natural Resource Management
