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📢 Results Now Available @CODESRIA is pleased to announce the selected projects under the 2025 MRI – Meaning-Making Research Initiative. 👏 Congratulations to all successful applicants! 🔗 Explore the full list: codesria.org/mri-2025-selec…

🔍Pastoralism & Uncertainty in Egypt’s Eastern Desert How do desert communities perceive and adapt to change—climate, economic, political? A unique look into resilience through ecology, ritual, and experience. #Pastoralism #Anthropology #RedSea #EasternDesert #ClimateAdaptation

♻️👩‍🔧 Invisibles mais essentielles. Des chercheuses marocaines documentent la réalité des femmes dans la collecte informelle des déchets, entre précarité et autonomisation. Un projet MRI pour penser égalité, dignité, économie circulaire. #MRI2025 #CODESRIA #Maroc

🍚🛡️ Résister à la globalisation dans l’assiette. Au Bénin, un projet MRI explore la résilience des pratiques alimentaires traditionnelles face à l’essor des produits importés. 📍 #MRI2025 #CODESRIA #AlimentationDurable

🌳 What roles did women play in forest protection in Nigeria & Ghana? This project revisits over 100 years of gendered ecology—uncovering how colonial legacies & weak policies have shaped women's place in climate action. #MRI2025 #ClimateJustice #WomenAndForests

📊 MRI 2025 | Women, Work & Informality How do economic shifts impact women in 🇨🇲🇸🇳🇹🇬? This study tracks 3 decades of trends, spotlighting the informal sector’s role in women’s resilience & risk. 🔗 codesria.org/mri-2025-selec… #MRI2025 #CODESRIA #WomenAndWork

🏘️Homeless Women in Focus This study compares the lives of homeless women in Durban 🇿🇦 and Freetown 🇸🇱, calling for tailored psychosocial support and trauma-informed care. #Homelessness #WomenInCrisis #SocialJustice #Durban #Freetow

🎶Commodifying Culture through Women’s Voices This MRI 2025 project explores the legacy and identity politics of 3 East African women artists:Using discourse and semiotic analysis, the study bridges tradition and modern sound. #MRI2025 #WomenInMusic #CulturalCommodification #EAC

🛖 Maasai Resettlement and Indigenous Rights in #Tanzania This MRI 2025 project examines the impact of conservation-led resettlement on human rights, land access, and cultural identity. Guided by FPIC & social justice principles. #MRI2025 #MaasaiRights #IndigenousJustice #SDGs

⛏️Feminist Perspectives on Mineral Extraction In #Rwanda,women face barriers in mining - despite national strides in gender equality. This MRI 2025 project explores ecological equity, resilience, and empowerment through a feminist lens. #MRI2025 #FeministEcology #GenderAndMining

🚨 Migration of African Health Workers – from a different angle. This MRI 2025 project shifts the focus to Senegal and The Gambia, exploring the lived experiences of nurses and doctors-and the role of national policies. 🔎 #MRI2025 #BrainDrain #AfricaHealth #Senegal #TheGambia

🏠MRI 2025 Spotlight This project explores why Kenya’s Affordable Housing Programme struggles, and how culture, gender norms, and land politics influence community attitudes. 🔗 codesria.org/mri-2025-selec… #MRI2025 #CODESRIA #HousingPolicy #Kenya #SocialJustice

🚨 Online gender-based violence is silencing women in politics. This project highlights how harassment on social media silences political voices and threatens democratic participation in Nigeria and South Africa. #MRI2025 #WomenInPolitics #OGBV #DigitalRights

📢 MRI 2025 | Featured Project Prof. Ezebunwa Ethelbert Nwokocha explores the social ecology of twin and albino infanticide in Nigeria. This research sheds light on a taboo practice, challenging simplistic views of modernity vs tradition. #MRI2025 #HumanRights #SocialResearch

📰 NEW in CODESRIA Bulletin Online! “Safeguarding Academic Freedom in Africa: The 2025 Dar es Salaam Annex to the 1990 Kampala Declaration” By @EdwardMboyonga. 📍A renewed call to defend Africa’s universities and protect the right to think freely. 🔗journals.codesria.org/index.php/code…

🌍 Work. Learn. Exchange. Check out the NOREC Work Exchange Programme: a paid, reciprocal work exchange for 6–12 months between institutions in the Global South and Norway. 📣 A great way to grow professionally and build international solidarity. 🔗norec.no/en/work-exchan… #NOREC

🚨 New in @CODESRIA Bulletin: Special issue on Mozambique and post-electoral violence (2024–2025) 📍Guest Editor: Elísio Macamo 📖 Read now → journals.codesria.org/index.php/code… #Mozambique #CODESRIA #PoliticalCrisis #PostElections #CODESRIABulletin

"Safeguarding Academic Freedom: The Dar es Salaam Annex to the Kampala Declaration" A powerful step forward in defending intellectual autonomy on the continent. 📰 Read here 👉 africanarguments.org/2025/06/safegu… #AcademicFreedom #Africa #HigherEducation

📢 @CODESRIA Bulletin Online, No. 6, May 2025 📝 “Indigenous African Knowledge and the Challenge of Epistemic Translation” By @ZubaWai (@UofT) 🔥 A powerful keynote on how Indigenous knowledge can be misappropriated—even by decolonial efforts. 📖 Read: journals.codesria.org/index.php/code…