BecA-ILRI Hub 1st Advisory Panel Group photo 2014

The BecA-ILRI Hub 1st Advisory Panel Group photo 13 May 2014, Nairobi

Photo Credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu

Unlock potential, broaden the reach

Institutional Capacity Strengthening

The objectives are two fold; (i) to unlock the potential of NARS by improving the research environment through addressing key human resource and infrastructural challenges, and (ii) to broaden the reach of bio science activities supported by home institutions.

The main aspects of BecA-ILRI Hub’s intervention are:

i) Technical assistance (lab design and management, equipment installation and commissioning, training of equipment engineers and laboratory technicians)
ii) Support for securing funding for capacity building activities, and;
iii) Connections to networks and key influencers (e.g., suppliers of reagents and lab equipment)
iv) Customized training workshops at NARS institution
v) Brokerage of partnerships for research, training and resource mobilization.

Some of our Activities

NSF-PIRES Cassava Mosaic Virus Evolution Partnership 2016 Wellington Ekaya of BecA-ILRI Hub; Linda Haley-Bowdoin and George Kennedy of North Carolina State University at the National Science Foundation Partnerships for International Research and Education (NSF-PIRES) during the launch of the Cassava Mosaic Virus evolution research project Photo Credit: BecA-ILRI Hub\Marvin Wasonga
Technical assistance, equipment installation, commissioning and training In 2014, BecA-ILRI Hub helped set up a modern biosciences laboratory at the Gulu University in Northern Uganda. The new bioscience platform supports; human medicine, veterinary medicine, plant science and basic sciences faculties of the university. Photo Credit: Uganda Radio Network (URN)