Strengthening Higher Education Stakeholder Relations in Africa

This project will build stronger alliances between African universities and community groups, industry and other higher education partners. It will focus on three key components:

Component 1 – Strategic planning partnerships

African universities in partnership with Canadian universities will strengthen their strategic plans for improved outreach to external stakeholders.

Strategic planning partnership competition:

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Component 2 – Case study partnerships

African universities in partnership with Canadian universities will produce case studies of successful African university-industry linkages.

Case study partnerships’ first competition:

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Component 3 – Stakeholder relations

Association of African Universities will work in partnership with the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada to strengthen its ability to support its member universities’ external stakeholder relations and to strengthen its own external stakeholder relations.

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Canada-Africa workshop

Dr. Kilemi Mwiria, Kenya’s Assistant Minister for Higher Education, Science & Technology delivering his official speech at the workshop.

At a recent workshop held on November 29 and 30, 2011 in Nairobi, Kenya, Canadian university representatives worked with their African university partners on the development of institutional strategic plans.

The goal was to build stronger alliances between African universities and community groups, industry and other higher education partners. All 15 African strategic planning project teams and program representatives from 11 Canadian universities under the first component of the program participated in this workshop.

Workshop findings will be compiled into a report and a practical guide for use by the Association of African Universities’ members and by the association in its capacity building training workshop series of African universities called LEDEV.

Judith Woodsworth, former president of Concordia University and facilitator at the workshop.

The workshop was a useful occasion for all participants to advance their projects, learn and share among themselves ways to improve their work and explore options for future Canada-Africa collaboration in higher education.