​​​​​​​Transforming Employability for Social Change in East Africa (TESCEA) is helping young people in East Africa to use their skills and ideas to tackle social and economic problems. We are now working to scale our approaches in more universities and countries.

Training and mentoring for research teams in the IDRC GROW East Africa research programme.

​​​​​​​Transforming Employability for Social Change in East Africa (TESCEA) is helping young people in Tanzania and Uganda to use their skills and ideas to tackle social and economic problems.

AQHEd-SL is bringing together higher education institutions across Sierra Leone to improve quality management in higher education and introduce outcome-based education. Stakeholder engagement and innovative pedagogy help align students’ learning with the needs of the job market.

INASP was commissioned to carry out an evaluation of the extent to which the PEBL project has increased flexibility in East African Higher Education systems to expand capacity to meet increasing graduate learning demands without eroding quality

INASP partners with national library consortia to facilitate affordable access to research. INASP negotiates with publishers to provide researchers and libraries in developing countries with the research content they need at affordable prices.

Recognizing that sustainable skills development must be owned and driven by local universities and research institutions, the AuthorAID project supported 10 universities and research institutions in Africa and Asia to establish research-writing skills training.

INASP worked with national library consortia and equivalent bodies to build quality training programmes to enable librarians to manage access to information and support researchers.

INASP worked with national library consortia and equivalent bodies to strengthen the organisational effectiveness of library consortia,  to enable them to play stronger roles nationally, and to represent national needs in relationships with publishers and other suppliers. 

In 2013, INASP launched a pilot project with partners in Sierra Leone to explore what could be done to strengthen the foundations for research and higher education in the country.

From 2013-2018 the Strengthening Research and Knowledge Systems (SRKS) programme worked at the individual, institutional and national levels to strengthen research and knowledge systems.

INASP was commissioned by the Evidence for HIV Prevention in Southern Africa (EHPSA) research programme to investigate demand for evidence use in HIV prevention policy for three vulnerable populations.

The INASP/UNESCO grant collaboration encouraged partner and network countries to use Open Access Week to raise awareness of Open Access within the Global South, and showcase activities of universities and research institutions within developing and emerging countries.

INASP partnered with the University of Dodoma in Tanzania on a gender sensitization workshop in response to concerns about gender inequalities within the institution. This led to a Gender Mainstreaming in Higher Education Toolkit, and gender mainstreaming within the university.

INASP worked with five African library schools to strengthen postgraduate curricula and teaching in library and information science, in order to ensure that professional librarians are able to deliver high quality services to support research and teaching.

A pilot project, working with National Research and Education Networks– national providers of academic and research IT services, known as NRENs - to improve campus networks and to strengthen the ability of NRENs to provide on-going support and training. 

The two-year TZAP project aimed to contribute to a knowledge-based society in Tanzania by increasing the quality of academic publishing through training, skills development and capacity building.

PERI worked to strengthen research and knowledge systems in developing countries with the aim of having research information inform social and economic development in the south.

INASP supported capacity strengthening of the two major professional associations in Africa

The African Journals Online programme was initiated by INASP in order to raise the visibility of African journals and create a greater awareness of research carried out in Africa. Locally owned and managed since 2005, AJOL now hosts more than 500 African journals.