GROWNUT-2: Growing Partnership for Higher Education and Research in Nutritional Epidemiology in Democratic Republic of Congo And Tanzania.
The project digested
GROWNUT-2 is a collaborative project within the sub-program Health that will bring a new partner at MUHAS, Tanzania into the established GROWNUT-1 partnership between UNIKIN, UIB and UKZN. Building on the learnings from the GROWNUT-1 nutritional epidemiology (EpiNut) programme in DRC, the GROWNUT-2 partnership aims to develop a cadre of African nutrition scholars and academic leaders to address nutrition disorders and influence nutrition policy. The project will be undertaken as a partnership between four institutions of higher learning, one from the global North and three from the global South.
Project objectives
The project has the following objectives:
- To establish and support a postgraduate programme in nutritional epidemiology to master’s and PhD level at UNIKIN and MUHAS
- To develop a replicable and sustainable education package to support a nutritional epidemiology masters and PhD programme, based on a blended-learning approach.
- To develop an inclusive and relevant research agenda at UNIKIN and MUHAS in partnership with Ministries of Health in DRC and in Tanzania.
- To support implementation of demand-driven, locally relevant nutrition research, embedded in the postgraduate nutritional epidemiology programme, in KSPH and at SPHSS
- To provide appropriate multi-stakeholder feedback at local, national and international level to inform future partnerships and provide inputs to the wider policy and research on nutrition
Relevant SDGs in project
SDG 2, SDG 3, SDG 4 and SDG 17.9
Partner institutions
University of Kinshasa, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, University of Kwazulu Natal, University of Bergen