Supporting UK partnerships with Africa

When the Oversight Board identified affordable housing as one of Kenya’s top four policy priorities and an issue to address jointly, UKCDR worked in partnership with DFID, FCO and UKRI to deliver the UK-Kenya Research Symposium on ‘Healthy Cities: Affordable Housing & Sustainable Infrastructure’ in Nairobi, May 2019. The symposium aimed to broker dialogue across sectors towards the adoption of housing policies that promote sustainable. 

Outcomes:

• Joint statement signed by the UK and Kenyan governments: It renewed the commitment for continued partnership and international research collaboration to address the issues of affordable housing and sustainable infrastructure research, policy and practice in Kenya.  
• Created an innovative model for brokering dialogue across sectors and building stronger partnerships between the UK and African stakeholders for international development research. 

On 30 January 2020 we published three country-level reports, analysing the nature and reach of UK (ODA and Wellcome) funding for international development research and partnership activities between 2014-2019 in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa.

The mapping provides a detailed overview of the scale of UK investments in partnership with research leaders in each country. It identifies important recommendations on strengths and gaps to facilitate partnerships its research partnerships in each country to inform priority setting based on national research priorities and effective communication with in-country stakeholders in support of UK diplomatic and prosperity objectives.