ARUA Centre of Excellence in Climate & Development
ARUA-CD is a pan-African partnership driving high-quality research, postgraduate training, and policy engagement to advance sustainable development in the context of climate change.
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The African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) established Centres of Excellence (CoEs) to strengthen research and postgraduate training across its member universities. A Centre of Excellence is a collaborative platform, typically a team, shared facility or institutional hub, that provides leadership, knowledge generation and capacity building in a specific area of focus. These centres bring together leading researchers and postgraduate students from across the continent and beyond to conduct high-quality, interdisciplinary research on critical development challenges. Unlike traditional academic structures, CoEs are designed to transcend disciplinary and institutional boundaries, enabling more agile, inclusive and impactful collaboration.
The ARUA Centre of Excellence in Climate and Development (ARUA-CD) is one of these flagship initiatives. It serves as a continental hub for research, training and policy engagement at the intersection of climate change and sustainable development. Drawing on the strengths of three core partner institutions, the African Climate and Development Initiative at the University of Cape Town, the Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies at the University of Ghana, and the Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation at the University of Nairobi, ARUA-CD fosters African-led responses to climate challenges through knowledge co-production, graduate education and policy-relevant outputs.