Capacity buidling Training in apiculture
Capacity buidling Training in apiculture

Capacity Building Fund

Africans are the greatest change agents for Africa.

With the support of our partners, we can help support comprehensive training programs focused on some of sub-Saharan Africa's most critical issues, such as climate change, biodiversity conservation, food security, and human health.

Status: Ongoing

The massive challenges facing the Congo Basin—climate change, human disease, food and water security, and loss of biodiversity—can only be solved by placing Africa at the center of the solutions. With your help, the Congo Basin Institute (CBI) is laying the foundation, in Africa, for lasting progress. CBI aspires to solve these challenges by employing an interdisciplinary scientific approach and developing partnerships that take research into action—with African scientists and decision makers taking the lead.

Capacity building is critical to this effort. As CBI develops the next generation of African scientists and policy makers, trainings and workshops, mentorship, research opportunities, and grants for African scientists are critical components of its novel approach.

With the support of our partners, we can help support comprehensive training programs focused on some of sub-Saharan Africa's most critical issues, such as climate change, biodiversity conservation, food security, and human health. Through hands-on learning opportunities in the lab and the field and workshops on the roles of ecotourism and entrepreneurship, students and local researchers learned invaluable skills, gained critical experience, and expanded their horizons. All of this is necessary to safeguard the future of this extraordinary region, its people, and the health of our planet.

Listen to a message from the field where some CBI workshop participants share their experiences.

Testimonials

"The workshop opened up new collaborative opportunities for me because I got the opportunity to meet and interact with other people working in the field." 

- Estherbel, workshop participant

"This workshop will be a great help to me in my field of parasitology. I learned how to collect samples from birds and use them to diagnose diseases and parasites. Thank you so much for this opportunity.” 

- Workshop participant, University of Buea

"This training helped me improve on the quality of the content I give to my students." 

Johnson, workshop participant

 

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Capacity building Training in Passive Acoustic Monitoring participants after they have received their training certificate
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Capacity building Training on Sea Turtle - Olive Ridley turtle rescued from a fisherman net

Testimonials from CBI workshop participants