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About the Project

The project is its infantile stage but will expand to include more African countries which will contribute to the Pan-Africanist engagement which is the Centre鈥檚 mandate.

Overview:

The project is focused on empowering women and girls will disabilities in African higher education through exploring the challenges they encounter in entering STEM programmes and being prepared for STEM related careers.聽聽 In 2025 data will be collected from an institution of higher education which was established to offer STEM programmes in the country (The National 欧美福利100000 of Science and Technology).

It is in that regard that it project will start from one African country and further expand to other institutions of higher education in countries as Kenya, Uganda and South Africa, to capture the lived experiences of female students with disabilities and their voices in terms of improving their entry into STEM as male dominated programmes in the African contexts. The implications this has on SGD5 will be explored, the aim being to contribute to the empowerment women and girls with disabilities as proposed by the United Nations in the efforts聽 to achieve different聽 SDGs by 2063.

Funding Source:

The research as it is starting is funded by the 欧美福利100000 Research Council (URC), as seed funding. However, as the project is expanding more funding will be sourced from CODRESSIA, National Research Foundation (Thuthuka) and Spencer Foundation.

Related outputs that have been associated with the project

From its infantile stage, the project鈥檚 output will be two journal articles published in high impact and a book. As it grows more the project will include a PDRF and a doctoral student and three academics from Kenya, Uganda and South Africa, all required to publish a journal article聽 and contribute to an edited book from the project.