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KIT Institute Advisors have received international recognition at the 2025 World Congress of the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS), held in Brisbane, Australia, from 16–19 June. KIT Institute was honoured with a prestigious WAS Award in the category Education, highlighting its contributions to advancing sexuality education in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The UNESCO commissioned- study ‘Adolescent […]

Shaping the Future of Global Health We are proud to launch our 2026 Health Courses Brochure at KIT Institute – where education drives global health impact. Today’s health systems face increasingly complex and interconnected challenges – from pandemics and climate change to conflict, displacement, and shifting global health priorities. These demands call for a new […]

Since 2017, together with UN Women Training Centre, KIT Institute has run Feminist Edge – a professional development programme for gender trainers. Feminist Edge re-captures and re-imagines gender training as a feminist project, establishing a new approach to training for gender equality.  On Tuesday, 5 August, Feminist Edge will host a Special Event titled: Feminists on the Edge: Reshaping Global Solidarities and […]

A newly published blog by Oliver Callaghan, Abishkar Subedi from Wageningen University and Research and KIT Institute’s senior advisor Eelco Jacobs, explores the question: can seed governance contribute to peace in fragile and conflict-affected contexts? Written in the context of Action Learning Process 4 (ALP-4) as part of the ISSD Africa programme, the blog unpacks […]

Agri-Food Industry Organizations (AFIOs) have increasingly gained recognition and attention as key actors in fostering inclusive agricultural transformation. Defined as organisations that can bring together farmers’ groups, cooperatives, and agri-food SMEs, AFIOs are often engaged in activities ranging from production and aggregation to processing and trade. With their deep embeddedness in local value chains, their […]

A new progress report from KIT Institute offers fresh insights on the impact of Nestlé’s Income Accelerator Program (IAP). The Income Accelerator Program, launched in 2022, is designed to improve the income levels of cocoa farming households in Côte d’Ivoire while addressing child labour risk. KIT Institute, alongside the Rainforest Alliance and the International Cocoa […]

At the 2025 AGRINATURA General Assembly held in Ghent, Belgium in May, KIT Institute was formally accepted into the Agrinatura EEIG – a group of ten leading European universities and research institutes that directly advise the European Union (DG-INTPA) on tropical food systems, with a strong focus on Africa. Representing KIT Institute at the General Assembly were Advisors Nicola Francesconi and Caitlin Herrington, who joined peers […]

Feminist movements today are navigating increasingly complex, underfunded, and hostile environments. Despite these challenges, they remain vital forces of resistance and innovation and are needed now more than ever. Between mid-2023 and early 2025, KIT Institute worked in its role as Learning Partner alongside Fenomenal Funds stakeholders to co-create and implement a participatory learning process grounded in […]

KIT Institute has launched the BRIDGE Mentorship Initiative in partnership with the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp. This new initiative supports early-career researchers conducting epidemiological studies by pairing them with experienced mentors for a year-long, one-to-one exchange. The pilot round brings together six mentor–mentee pairs from Peru, Kenya, Nepal, South Africa, Rwanda, and the Netherlands. […]

A new working paper by experts from KIT Institute sheds light on the complex dynamics of smallholder inclusion in global agrifood value chains. Titled Understanding Smallholder Inclusion Efforts of the Private Sector – A Grounded Analytical Framework, the paper explores how lead firms are engaging smallholders through various inclusion programs—and why a deeper, more nuanced […]

Today, April 7th, 2025, is World Health Day and marks the launch of a year-long campaign on maternal and newborn health. Titled Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures, the campaign calls on governments and the global health community to intensify efforts to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths and to prioritize women’s long-term health and well-being. At […]

Senior epidemiologist Mirjam Bakker was in Pakistan for the start of a new research project and visited a chest camp. She sent us a dispatch from Islamabad. From 26 to 31 January I travelled to Islamabad in Pakistan to prepare and join the 2-day kick-off and protocol development workshop of an exciting new research project with the objective to develop innovative active case finding (ACF) approaches to optimise […]

As Mari-Luz Kerkhoven, Youth Ambassador for the ONE Campaign, closed the Health and Prosperity: How Dutch Investments in Global Health Drive Security and Economic Growth conference with a powerful message of urgency, we invited her to reflect on the day’s discussions. Policymakers have to take responsibility and continue supporting global health investments; with this message, […]

On #WorldTBDay, we are highlighting our work with Mercy Corps to improve TB detection in Pakistan, where many cases go undiagnosed. Chest camps (mobile screening vans) can bring diagnosis and treatment closer to communities – but how can they be strategically placed for maximum impact? Since 2019, KIT Institute has been supporting Mercy Corps and […]

A well-organised and insightful conference on Health and Prosperity: How Dutch Investments in Global Health Drive Security and Economic Growth took place at the KIT Institute in Amsterdam this past Monday 10 of March, 2025. The event was co-hosted by KIT Institute and the Gates Foundation, with active engagement of Cordaid, Aidsfonds, the ONE Campaign, Philips and us at KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation. Strong government representation from […]

Our colleagues Nicola Francesconi, Lisa de Graaf, Boudy van Schagen, Coen Buvelot, and Sandra Quintero were in South Sudan from the 17 to 21 February for the annual A3SEED project retreat. They sent us their dispatch from Juba. Since 2021, KIT Institute has collaborated with IFDC on the A3-SEED project (Accelerating Agriculture and Agribusiness) in […]

KIT Institute, as the Learning Partner for Fenomenal Funds, is launching ten new case studies today that provide critical insights into the power of core, flexible, and pooled funding in strengthening feminist movements. Developed in collaboration with six women’s funds and four collaboration groups, these case studies explore how participatory grant-making fosters resilience, partnerships, and […]

For International Womxn’s Day we take the opportunity to critically reflect on the climate crisis and its intersection with gender. We use an intersectional feminist approach to highlight the relational nature of power, which dictates how climate crises and gender equality are being framed, and how that affects the solutions proposed to combat climate change. […]

The cocoa sector continues to grapple with several sustainability and human rights challenges, most notably low incomes for producing households and the use of child labour. The latter topics were the central themes brought into focus during KIT Institute’s partner session and participation in the Chocoa Conference in February. The contributions of KIT Institute were part […]

On 10 March, KIT Institute will host the high-level conference “Health and Prosperity: How Dutch Investments in Global Health Drive Security and Economic Growth”, bringing together key stakeholders to examine the Netherlands’ investment role in global health initiatives. This event will highlight the economic and societal return on investment of Dutch contributions to global health financing, […]

The knowledge product Learning to Increase Community Legal Literacy on Land Rights and Natural Resource Management in Mozambique was recently published following a collaborative writeshop hosted by our Mozambican partner, Centro Terra Viva (CTV). The design and facilitation were conducted by KIT Institute, and the document was co-edited by Sandra Quintero. This document outlines CTV’s main achievements […]

The Ministry of Health of Rwanda is making great strides in their fight against Tuberculosis. In their efforts to further reduce the burden of TB, the Rwanda Biomedical Center (BRC), with support from KIT Institute, has implemented a MATCH analysis to identify areas where TB case finding within Key and Vulnerable Populations (KVP) will need […]