In 2020, RVI secured a grant from the European Union with a key objective to strengthen women’s research in South Sudan. The Project will increase the capacity, experience and the institutional power of women researchers, which will in turn increase and diversify knowledge production on developmental challenges, widening the scope for gender-…

In September 2022, the Rift Valley Institute in collaboration with Carnegie Corporation and the Open Society University Network launched the first cohort of the <em>Early Career Researchers' Training</em>, part of the RVI's Research Community of Practice (RCoP) project. The project aims to contribute to the development of young…

After a two-year hiatus caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, RVI held its first in-person residential course at the end of June 2022 in Naivasha, Kenya. The programme restarted with the popular Horn of Africa course, which focuses on the history, politics and culture of Somalia, Somaliland, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. The course was directed by…

A Year in the Horn of Africa: Latest Developments in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Somaliland and Djibouti.

The third in a series to help understand the causes of the drought-related crisis in the Somali regions of the Horn of Africa.

The second in a series to help understand the causes of the drought-related crisis in the Somali regions of the Horn of Africa.