CARTA/APHRC support 2017-2023
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Support to the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) special program the Consortium for Advance Research Training in Africa (CARTA). The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is a leading pan-African research institution headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya with the mission to be a global center of excellence, generating and deliver...
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Support to the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) special program the Consortium for Advance Research Training in Africa (CARTA). The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is a leading pan-African research institution headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya with the mission to be a global center of excellence, generating and delivering relevant scientific evidence for policy and action on population, health, education, and urbanization in Africa. To develop the next generation of globally-competitive African scholars APHRC leads the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA), which was established in 2008. Since then CARTA has become a viable platform to build an African academy poised to lead world-class, multidisciplinary research to improve public and population health. CARTA operates on a mutually reinforcing two-pronged strategy to develop individual research capacity and leadership while concurrently transforming institutional research cultures and organizational systems within which CARTA fellows operate. This approach creates the much-needed conducive environments to retain active researchers at African universities who, themselves, can support further capacity development for research and lead institutional change.
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Examples of results achieved by the CARTA programme include: > Graduation of 160 PhD students (56% women) > Publication of 3300 peer-reviewed articles > Raising of more than 32 million USD external grants by fellows and graduates > Training of 243 supervisors for post-graduate students > Training of 594 faculty and administrative staff to strengthen their capacity to support research and research management at institutional level > Launch of the CARTA evidence website; https://carta-evidence.org/ > Making CARTA Curricula for PhD training, graduate grant writing, supervisor training and institutional support publicly available; https://cartafrica.org/teaching-resources/ > Development and implementation of training-of-trainers programmes to carry out CARTA interventions independently at partner institutions
Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) is an Africa-based, Africa-led initiative to strengthen the capacity of African universities to locally produce well-trained and skilled researchers primarily in health sciences and related fields. It was formed in 2008 and is a South-South partnership with South-North collaboration and involves 20 universities and research institutes. CARTA is jointly led by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Kenya, and the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa. The main goal of CARTA is to build a vibrant multidisciplinary African academy that is able to lead world class research that makes a positive impact on population and public health. This to be attained through the follow outcomes: 1) Established pipeline of high-quality doctoral candidates and graduates that reach a critical mass of multidisciplinary researchers across CARTA African partner-institutions. 2) African institutions have institutionalized aspects of CARTA to strengthen and sustain PhD training, build research-supportive environments, and accelerate high-quality research activity (supervision, mentorship, faculty visits, improved administration) 3) Secured future and fostered career paths of high-achieving CARTA graduates as productive researchers, groomed to become future research leaders in Africa. Together, these three outcomes will lead to the creation of a critical mass of researchers and research leaders who create, promote and lead active research and training programmes at their universities. As change agents within their institutions, they create a feedback mechanism to guarantee sustainability of CARTA strategies. Over the medium-term, CARTA aims to produce a critical mass of high-quality graduates trained to address the complex issues surrounding health and development in Africa, retain them in the region, and provide them a vibrant intellectual environment, as well as viable and challenging research and growth opportunities.
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