A Breakthrough for Diarrhoeal Disease Research?
22/12/2011
In Bangladesh the Shigella- and E. coli bacteria kill 100,000 people per year, most of them children. Researchers are now trying to develop a vaccine against the aggressive diarrhoeal disease, shigellosis.
HIV-specialists in high demand
15/09/2011
In a country struggling with an extreme HIV epidemic, the University of Zambia is educating neuropsychologists to deal with the huge demand of professionals. The university now offers Africa’s only Master’s degree in the field.
Social Aspects of Solar Energy
02/05/2011
“If women didn’t have to walk for four hours a day to collect firewood, but instead could use a solar oven, and if they didn’t have to pump water by hand, but instead could have an electric pump run by solar energy, then their time could be spent learning to read and write instead.”
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Towards a Mother Tongue School
23/02/2011
Portuguese has always been, and still is, the language of instruction in all schools in Mozambique. But this is about to change.
Gender Equality, Education and Poverty
28/10/2010
Wide eyes and smiles shine inside this dark and crowded space. The excited hum of adolescent voices bounces from concrete walls as students vie for clear lines of sight. It’s not often that foreigners visit Buluk Primary School and the entrance of several generates a palpable thrill.
Ancient Secrets of Zimbabwe
07/06/2010
In a country that was verging on collapse, researchers managed to keep digging – revealing secrets from one of the richest archaeological regions in the world.
In Need of Engineers
11/05/2010
“NOMA is not only a cooperation initiative, it also gives us tremendous development prospects,” says Professor Mohammed Tamim of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).
The Politics of Water
29/04/2010
“To see this makes my heart happy,” says Emma Bello, as she discovers the new borehole in the Malawian village of Katchakhwala.
The Healing of a Nation
22/02/2010
As Sudan prepares for its most historically important year since gaining independence in 1956, its traumatised population is in dire need of healing the wounds of war.
Bettering Barley in Ethiopia
19/11/2009
Norwegian and Ethiopian scientists are cooperating to make the most of barley harvests. The farmers participating in the project see noticeable improvements in their crops.
Researching Peace in times of Crisis
23/09/2009
A NOMA-supported Master’s programme on conflict, peace building and development aims to bring stability to Nepal’s fragile democracy.
Not just Mother’s Matters
28/05/2009
Maternal mortality remains alarmingly high in sub-Saharan Africa. The rebuilding of two new maternity wards in the Malawi capital of Lilongwe offers some hope for the future, but the obstacles in the path of progress seem insurmountable to the people on the floor.
From Fight to Faith
11/01/2009
In Uganda traditional and Christian rituals may be the key to the reintegration of female child ex-soldiers.
Tuberculosis: HIV's Terrible Twin
16/02/2009
Every three months Babalwa Cebisa and her daughter Loyiso travel to a clinic in Khayelitsha, a township whose jumble of shacks and small brick structures look out of place amid the general splendour of Cape Town in South Africa.
Making a difference
15/12/2008
“The clinics are dying. That’s why I decided to do this”, says Petronilla Ngiloi, the Master degree student from Tanzania. She is one of the students taking her degree in Health Policy and Management at Muhimbili University initiated by Norad`s Programme for Master Studies (NOMA).
A Long Road to Recognition
24/03/2009
Tanzania is implementing reforms in its health sector. Students of Health Policy and Management are doubtful whether the reforms are producing convincing results.
Urgent Need for Nepalese Experts
16/11/2008
“Each project is a school of learning in itself. All kinds of people get training while working on a hydropower project.”
Water Security in Pangani
16/11/2008
Researchers from Norway and Tanzania are working together to set up a water management system to improve conditions for people in the drought-stricken Pangani River basin.
History of a bleeding nation
16/11/2008
The history of the war speaks for itself. Tamil-Sinhalese relations collapsed completely with the anti-Tamil riots in 1983. As armed Sinhalese mobs slaughtered hundreds, if not thousands, of Tamil civilians across the country, civil war erupted.
Thinking beyond Ethnic Agendas
16/11/2008
The issue of higher education helped trigger Sri Lanka’s 25 year long civil war. Can it also help to bring peace to the war torn nation? Two NOMA-supported Master Degree Programmes aim to do just that.