Collaborating and Partner Institutions

CETRAD embraces the principles of institutional networking, collaboration, and partnership, at local, regional and international levels, to realise its objectives. CETRAD key partner/affiliated institutions include research and training institutions in Kenya, Tanzania, Switzerland and other countries. Such include: KARI-Njoro; KARI-Kibwezi; ERMIS-Africa; University of Nairobi; Egerton University (Kenya); Selean Agricultural Research Institute, Arusha, Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute, Dar es Salaam; University of Dar es Salaam; Institute of Resource Assessment, Dar es Salaam; Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro (Tanzania); Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern; Syngenta Stewardship Programme; Swiss Agriculture Institute (Switzerland).

CETRAD also provides an operational platform for additional projects involved in both research and development. Currently affiliated projects include the Eastern and Southern Africa Partnership Programme (ESAPP); National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South Programme; UNDP/GEF/SGP funded Community Management of Protected Areas Conservation (COMPACT); Syngenta East Africa and Syngenta Stewardship Programme on Conservation Agriculture and Crop Protection Products; and the Elephants Research Project funded by the Darwin Initiative of the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK focusing on 'Building Capacity to Alleviate Elephant Conflict in North Kenya'.