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  • The “Gender Model Family” Approach, Women’s Empowerment & Nutrition

    • Institute
    • Project

    KIT is conducting applied research with Welthungerhilfe to generate evidence on how the Gender Model Family (GMF) approach works in practice as a form of gender transformative programming in Sierra Leone. The research aims to understand how GMF contributes to women’s empowerment, better nutrition and agrobiodiversity outcomes. Family-led progress on nutrition & harmful gender norms […]

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  • Protecting Sustainability and the Matawai’s Forest in Suriname

    • Institute
    • Project

    Half-way between the north-eastern Atlantic coast of South America and the northern-Brazilian border, KIT Royal Tropical Institute, Conservation International Suriname, and the Matawai Investment Fund are collaborating to develop a management plan for the sustainable use of the Pusugrunu Community Forest. The Matawai community consists of descendants of former slaves who escaped the Dutch plantations […]

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  • SDG-Targeted Impact Framework for Impact Loan eXchange

    • Institute
    • Project

    KIT Royal Tropical Institute supports Loan eXchange (ILX) in developing the fund’s impact strategy.  ILX serves as an impact investment platform through which leading institutional investors – such as European pension funds – can co-invest with Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) in high SDG-targeted impact. KIT works alongside ILX in the design of their impact strategy, […]

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  • Environmental Modelling for the Mitigation of Health Risks

    • Institute
    • Project

    The Earth Observation and ENVironmental modelling for the mitigation of HEAlth risks (EO2HEAVEN) project monitored environmental changes induced by human activities and enhanced integration of remotely sensed and in-situ environmental measurements with public health data. New insights were used to develop models relating environmental data to public health threats and to predict health risks. Healthy […]

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  • Strategic Support for Sustainable Development in Inner Niger Delta

    • Institute
    • Project

    At the request of the Dutch Embassy in Mali, Royal Tropical Institute offered strategic assistance for the development of a support programme for sustainable development of the Inner Niger Delta in Central Mali. In this role we defined the types of interventions and the institutional arrangements necessary for ensuring effective co-ordination of interventions while strengthening […]

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  • Integrated Seed Sector Development in Africa

    • Institute
    • Project

    The Integrated Seed Sector Development (ISSD) aims to enhance access to quality seed by smallholder farmers. It integrates both formal and informal seed systems and fosters participation of both public and private actors in the development of demand-driven seed chains. As a result, this supports the ability of smallholder farmers to produce food sustainably and […]

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  • NIRP 14: A Future for the Mandara Mountains, North Cameroon

    • Institute
    • Publication

    This booklet presents the synthesis of the project “Local knowledge and local action in the Mandara mountains, North Cameroon”. The project encompassed the studies of one Dutch and two Cameroonian PhD researchers, which were carried out from 1994-1998. The project was co-funded by the Netherlands Israel Development Research Programme (NIRP), while fellowships from WOTRO (the […]

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