WOTRO Integrated Programmes
Overview ongoing and completed Integrated Programmes
Ongoing programmes awarded from 2007 onwards
Open Category programmes:
- Becoming a nation of readers in Timor-Leste
- Conflict and Environment in North-Lebanon: A longitudinal study of environmental and socio-economic mitigation processes in conflict-affected areas
- Effects of transnational child-raising arrangements on life-chances of children, migrant parents and caregivers in Ghana and the Netherlands
- EIOA: An Earth Observation- and Integrated Assessment approach to the governance of Lake Naivasha
- Filling the Gap: Social institutions and AIDS in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia
- Legal Empowerment as a means to development? A political-legal study of rights invocation by pollution victims in China and Indonesia
- Open source and commons in India and the Netherlands: New perspectives for development?
- The impact of non-tuberculous mycobacteria and host genetics on immunological responsiveness (resistance/susceptibility) of Cattle and African Buffaloes to BCG vaccination and Mycobacterium bovis infection in South Africa
- Understanding the current wave in globalisation: the segmented outcomes of offshore service development in Mumbai and Manila
- Using spatial information infrastructure in urban governance networks: reducing urban deprivations in Indian cities?
Thematic Programmes:
Poverty & Hunger
- Biomass for fuel: Opportunity or threat to food and feed security?
- Classical biological control of the invasive coconut mite in Africa and Asia: integrating biological, molecular and socioeconomic studies in the search and introduction of effective natural enemies
- Cooperatives & Chains: Linking Smallholder Organisation to Agricultural Markets
- Farm Dwellers, the Forgotten People? Consequences of Conversions to Private Wildlife Production in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape’
- GROUNDING LAND GOVERNANCE - Land Conflicts, Local Governance and Decentralization in Post-Conflict Uganda, Burundi and Southern Sudan
- Linking food aid and food security in Ethiopia
- PARASITE: Preparing African Rice Farmers Against Parasitic Weeds in a Changing Environment
- Struggling for water security
- The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) as a socio-economic and technical movement in India
Global Health & Health Sytems
- Development of a new cost- & time effective methodology to upscale demand for health insurance among the poor in India
- Leishmaniasis in Suriname
- Reaching the poor in Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme
- Safe drinking water in Bangladesh: an integrated framework assessing acceptability, social-technological feasibility and sustainability of hand-pump subsurface arsenic removal in diverse settings of rural Bangladesh
Sustainable Environment
- Experimenting for Sustainability in India and Thailand: A transitions perspective on sustainable electricity and mobility initiatives
- Exploitation or eutrophication as threats for fisheries? Disentangling social and ecological drivers of ecosystem changes in Lake Victoria (SEDEC)
- In Search of Sustainable Catchments and Basin-wide Solidarities; Transboundary Water Management of the Blue Nile River Basin
- Linking local action to international climate agreements in the tropical dry forests of Mexico
- Scaling-up Sustainable Land Management
Global Relationships
- Competing Hegemonies: Foreign-dominated processes of development in Cambodia
- Mobile Africa Revisited
- Nanotechnologies for development in India, Kenya and The Netherlands: Towards a framework for democratic governance of risks in developing countries
- Provincial Globalisation: The Impact of Reverse Transnational Flows in India's Regional Towns
Ongoing programmes awarded before 2007
- Local knowledge of crop plants in poverty alleviation
- Fragile biodiversity linkages: production and consumption in a nutrient-poor seagrass-dominated intertidal ecosystem, the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania
- FRAnkincense, Myrrh and gum arabic: sustainable use of dry woodland resources in Ethiopia (FRAME)
- More Crop per Drop, More Cropping per Dropping: Optimizing the Interactions between Organic Resources, Soil Macrofauna Biodiversity and Soil Structure for Enhanced Water and Nitrogen Use Efficiency in West and East African Cropping Systems
- Illegal but Licit: Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities in Asia
- Vulnerability and resilience of the Brazilian Amazon forests: changes in land-use and climate
- TEMBO-Elephant movement and bio-economic optimality (South Africa)
- Effects of supplementation with zinc and other micronutrients on health, development and well-being of African children (Tanzania)
- Forest line reconstruction in the Equadorian high Andes
- Smallholder system innovations in integrated watershed management (Tanzania)
Finalised programmes
- Incatourism in the Andean Highland: prospects and ambivalences of the idea of sustainable tourism
- Globalisation, food quality and sustainable agro-business chains (China, Costa Rica, Kenya)
- Determining the efficacy of recombinant, non-pathogenic, Gram-positive bacteria for mucosal immunization of mice to elicit malaria-specific immune responses (Sri Lanka)
- Integrating macro modelling and actor-oriented research related to land use change (Philippines)
- Climatic and tectonic history of South America in relation to Andean landscape evolution
- Nambikwara Indians: language & cultural identity
- Transnational society, media and citizenship
- Pollution of acid surface water in tropical volcanic environments (Indonesia)
- Model-based decision support for schistosomiasis control
- Producer services and social mobility in provincial Asia
- Fundamentals of African rangeland economics
- Modelling framework for global changes in malaria risk patterns