The Higher Education Solutions Network (HESN) is a partnership between USAID and seven world-class universities to create a constellation of Development Labs. This network harnesses the ingenuity and passion of university students, researchers, faculty, and their innovative partners to incubate, catalyze and scale science and tech-based solutions to the world’s most challenging development problems.
Through support to the university-led Development Labs, HESN taps into a global pool of expertise to accelerate innovation through the discovery, creation, testing and scaling of efficient, cost-effective, accessible and sustainable solutions to global development challenges.
With $137 million over five years from USAID, and leveraging nearly equal investments from the institutions, the universities form a collaborative and vibrant network that extends beyond 100 partner institutions in academia, civil society and government across 38 countries.
The Eastern Africa RILab at Makerere University examines community resilience on two fronts. First, in the face of chronic conflict and displacement – for example, comparing two northern Uganda communities that recovered from civil war at different rates. The lab also examines climate change and variability and communities’ ability to adapt in Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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