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- Children's rights: Research on non-violent parenting practices and the impact of violence, neglect and abuse on children’ development - together with Plan International
- Climate change: An assessment of the impact of the economic empowerment of households on climate resilience - together with Trias Uganda
- Education: Evaluation of gender-transformative learning outcomes - together with Plan International
- Education: Longitudinal follow-up of student teachers in agricultural education - together with VVOB
- Education: Strengthen measurement tools and techniques to monitor and evaluate gender-transformative learning outcomes - together with Plan International
- Education: Development of ethical tools, age and gender-appropriate, to measure the prevalence of school-related gender-based violence. Identifying promising practices and strategies to prevent this and assess the impact of these strategies. Geographic focus Senegal, Niger, Benin, Tanzania - together with Plan International
- Entrepreneurship and youth employment: Identification of the barriers young women face in accessing decent employment and entrepreneurship. What are the key drivers to promote an enabling environment? Geographic focus Bolivia, Ecuador, Senegal, Benin, Niger, Tanzania, Vietnam - together with Plan International
- Entrepreneurship and youth employment: Successful (replicable) green and/or agricultural businesses for youth - together with Trias Uganda
- Human rights: Work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission - together with ASF
- Human rights: Research on women's rights in the succession process and possible avenues for reform - together with ASF
- Resilient Ecosystems: How do we establish sustainable mechanisms to support long-term protection and conservation of freshwater resources, with explicit consideration for people and the environment (e.g. payment for ecosystem services, policy development, compensation mechanisms, innovative techniques)? - together with Join for Water
- Resilient Ecosystems: Research on how feasible is ecological mangrove restoration in Benin and which mechanisms work best to engage communities? - together with Join for Water
- Resilient Ecosystems: Integrating biodiversity governance, conservation, sustainable use and management of biodiversity into environmental research projects - together with Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences- CEBioS programme
- Resilient Ecosystems systems: Impacts of NRM practices on ecosystem health (biodiversity, soil life, carbon sequestration) in Uganda; Nutritive value of pasture species in Karamoja in Uganda - together with VSF
- Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems: Co-creating sustainable livelihood in rural communties; promoting an alternative development paradigm and lifestyle - together with Caritas
- Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems: Research on social and technological innovations related to emancipatory and sustainable agriculture and value chains - together with Caritas
- Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems: Irrigation systems for smallholder rice farmers & other innovation opportunities to enable the transition to regenerative organic rice farming - together with Durabilis
- Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems: Microbiology, biochar production, soil health, compost production and other innovation opportunities to enable the transition to regenerative organic farming with fruit and vegetable smallholder farmers - together with Durabilis
- Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems: Carbon farming and GHG reduction opportunities in agriculture with smallholder farmers - together with Durabilis
- Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems: Research on trends and impacts of chemicals/toxic products and their use in Uganda - together with Iles de Paix
- Urban Food systems in cities in Vietnam, Indonesia, and DR Congo - together with Rikolto: specific research topics can relate to the role of PGS (Participatory Guarantee Systems)-certified foods in urban diets; (healthy) food choices of youth/school children; urban farming systems; technical efficiency of Regenerative Agriculture in Horticulture Production; inclusive local food businesses in post-conflict regions.
- Sustainable Agriculture & Food systems: Research on the resilience, sustainability, and inclusion of the cacao sector in Ecuador - together with Rikolto: specific research topics can relate to living income of cocoa farmers; carbon capture and storage in cocoa agroforestry systems; role of women and youth in the diversification of household income; interaction of microbiota and genetics in the development of the floral profile of national cocoa during fermentation.
- Sustainable Agriculture & Food systems: Research on the resilience, sustainability, and inclusion of the rice sector in East Africa (DR Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda) - together with Rikolto: specific research topics can relate to climate-resilient, high-yielding, resource-use efficient rice-vegetable-legume (RVL) agri-food systems; impact of adoption of sustainable farming on other agri-food system value chain actors and supporters; influencing consumer behaviour to drive sustainable consumption and production; socioeconomic incentives for food actors in adopting food safety and quality standards.
- Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems: Research on sustainable agriculture and agro-ecology - together with SOS Faim
- Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems: Research on impact and risks of pesticide use - together with SOS Faim
- Sustainable cities: Impact of social action policies at the municipal level (methodological tools to carry out social diagnoses/maps) - together with Brulocalis
- Sustainable cities: Inter-university cooperation in support of the establishment of new social professions in Benin, including street social work - together with Dynamo International
- Sustainable cities: Modelling of balanced partnership dynamics between actors of international solidarity (enhance social cohesion) - together with Echos
- Sustainable cities: Involvement of diasporas in decentralized cooperation in Belgium and in Morocco - together with Echos
- Sustainable cities: Contribution of civil society organizations in fragile states to empowering youth in becoming active citizens and drivers of social change - together with KIYO
- Sustainable jobs: Youth Economic Empowerment activities focusing on green jobs (understand market dynamics, stakeholders and resilience-oriented professional curricula) - together with Plan International
- Waste management: Research on necessary conditions for and added value of inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) on waste - together with VVSG - SALGA
- Women's/Girl's rights: Engaging religious and traditional leaders to promote girls’ rights - together with Plan International
- Women's/Girl's rights: How can individuel empowerment (through Women Football) create a spillover in the community, affecting girls not playing, but benefitting from increased social status? Geographic focus Senegal, Benin - together with Plan International
- Women's/ Girl's rights: Intergenerational dialogues to promote youth engagement in their communities - together with Plan International
- Enhancing local production of medical products (pharmaceutical, vaccine and medical supplies and equipment) - request from the Ethiopian Ministry of Health
- Emergency preparedness of health systems - strenghtening of Primary health care to respond to the future emergencies while providing essential health care - request from the Ethiopian Ministry of Health