NORHED
Norwegian Programme for Capacity Building in Higher Education and Research for Development
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Norad's NORHED programme seeks to strengthen the institutional capacity and performance of academic institutions in the South to deliver quality education and research. It also seeks to increase the quality and quantity of research conducted by the countries’ own researchers.
Designed to stimulate South-North collaboration, it is anchored in and driven by institutions in the South. NORHED replaces the NOMA and NUFU programmes.
The University of Bergen is a partner in twelve projects and lead partner in one.
NORHED programme's thematic and/or geographic focus:
• Natural Resource Management, Climate Change and Environment
• Education and Training
• Health
• Democratic and Economic Governance
• Humanities, Culture, Media and Communication
• Capacity Development in South Sudan
The University of Bergen's collaboration under the NORHED programme is coordinated by UiB Global. For more information, please contact Kristin Svartveit.
Find out more about NORHED on Norad’s website.
NORHED projects for 2013-18 in which UiB is involved:
Project name | Lead partner | Partners | UiB project leader |
WIMEA-ICT: Improving Weather Information Management in East Africa | Makerere University | UiB, University of Juba, Daar es Salaam Institute of Technology | Joachim Reuder, Geophysical Institute |
Hi-TRAIN: Health Informatics Training and Research in East Africa | Moi University | Makerere University, UiB | Khalid Mughal, Department of Informatics |
SURVIVAL PLUSS: Increasing capacity for mama-baby survival in post-conflict Uganda and South Sudan | Makerere University | University of Juba, Gulu University, Busitema University, UiB | Thorkild Tylleskär, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care |
Borderland dynamics in East Africa. A network program for capacity building within departments of social anthropology in East African Universities | University of Khartoum | Addis Ababa University, Makerere University, UiB | Leif Manger, Department of Social Anthropology |
Building and reflecting on interdisciplinary PhD studies for higher education transformation | Makerere University | UiB | Tor Halvorsen, UiB Global |
Water and Society (WaSo Africa). Institutional capacity building in water management and climate change adaption in the Nile Basin | Makerere University | Telemark University College, UMB, University of Nairobi, University of Juba, UiB | Tore Særesdal, UiB Global |
Urban transformations in the southern Levant | Birzeit University | UiB | Nils Anfinset, Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion |
Incorporating climate change into ecosystem approaches to fisheries and aquaculture management | Nha Trang University | UiT, University of Ruhuna (Sri Lanka), University of Dhaka (Bangladesh), UiB | Henrik Glenner, Department of Biology |
Muhimbili University | Addis Ababa University, UiB | Bente Elisabeth Moen, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care | |
South Ethiopian network of universities in public health (SENUPH): Improving women's participation in post-graduate education | Hawassa University | Wolaita Sodo University, Dilla University, Arba Minch University, Addis Ababa University, Ministry of Health, UiB | Bernt Lindtjørn, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care |
GROW NUT: Growing partnership for higher education and research in nutrient epistemology in DR Congo | UiB | University of Kinshasa, University of Kwazulu Natal | Anne Hatløy, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care |
Capacity building in postgraduate surgical training and research in Malawi | University of Malawi | Haukeland University Hospital, Kamuzu Central Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, UiB | Sven Young, Department of Clinical Medicine |
Policy and Governance studies (PGS) in South Asia: Regional Master and PhD Programs | Tribhuvan University | NorthSouth University (Bangladesh), University of Peradenyia (Sri Lanka), ActionAid (Myanmar), UiB | Steinar Askvik and Ishtiaq Jamil, Department of Administration and Organization Theory |
Read about UiB's involvement in NORHED projects:
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Focus on border dynamics in East Africa
The University of Bergen is developing new knowledge and strengthening anthropological research in Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda in an effort to deal with complexities related to their national borders.
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Urbanisation out of control
Researchers at UiB and Birzeit University will study the uncontrolled urbanisation in Palestine and inform decision makers and organisations involved in urban planning on the West Bank.
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Improving weather forecasting in East Africa
UiB has teamed up with universities in South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda to develop the meteorological capacity of the three countries.
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Preparing for change along the Nile
Two new development programmes aim to shape policy on water management in Asia and Africa. The projects kicked off early January in Sri Lanka.
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Health care: an information business
Africa is technologically advanced in several areas, but woefully unprepared for technologies that could revolutionise its health care.
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Training surgeons in Malawi
Traffic accidents are a huge burden on the health care system in Malawi. The University of Bergen (UiB) is a partner in a project to train more surgeons in Malawi.

