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NORHED Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development Edle Hamre/Jorun Nossum Addis Ababa, 13 March 2014

2. The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) is a directorate under the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)
Technical advisory services
Administration of grants
Quality assurance, results monitoring and control
Communication
Evaluation

4. Workshop Addis Ababa Clause in the Agreement:
Revise and complete the results framework for the Project with clearly identified indicators and targets at all levels within 31 March 2014
Purpose:
Towards complete results framework at project level
Towards standard indicators at programme level

5. Evaluation of NOMA/NUFU programs (2010)
The NOMA and NUFU programmes have contributed to strengthened capacity
A need for a more holistic approach to capacity building
Questions of sustainability
Relevance at country level
Asymmetry between North and South
Women and gender equality
Synergy effects between the programmes, between education/research
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6. NORHED in brief
Aim to increase academic capacities in developing countries
Academic partnerships
Demand driven, with institutional commitment and involvement
Thematic and geographic focus
Master programmes, PhD studies and Post-doc fellowships
Joint research projects
Small-scale infrastructure and system strengthening
Hawassa University. Etiopia

7. NORHED Results Framework
Outcome: strengthen capacity for higher education and research in higher education institutions in LMIC
Increased capacity is defined as: ability for institutions in the South to educate more and better qualified candidates, and to increased quality and quantity of research conducted by the countries’ own researchers.
Long term impact: sustainable economic, social and environmental development in low and middle income countries.
University of Gadjah Mada, Indonesia

8. Budgetary framework
The overall annual budget for NORHED is NOK 150 million (27 mill USD) (including EnPe)
The budget frame for individual projects is 7-18 million NOK (1-4 mill USD) per project for a period of up to five years ( ).
Norad has a NORHED project portfolio of 46 projects
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9. NORHED Sub-programmes
Education and Training
Health
Natural Resources Management, Climate and Environment
Democratic and Economic governance
Humanities, Culture, Media and Communication
Capacity development in South Sudan
Norad’s Programme for Master Studies in Energy and Petroleum (EnPe)
Kathmandu University Hospital, Nepal

10. NORHED’s geographic priorities
Countries registered on OECD DAC list of ODA recipients are eligible for NORHED funding
Regional priorities per sub-programme per call.
Countries of priority (for 2013 call) : Burundi, Ethiopia, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia; Afghanistan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Timor-Leste ; and Palestine

11. Partnerships All projects have to have a Norwegian partner
Regional collaboration is encouraged
Partnerships based on equality, and project ownership at the LMIC institutions.
South Partner is the preferred Agreement Partner
Degrees to be given from LMIC institutions when possible
University of Juba, South Sudan

12. Steering Structure
Independent Review Committees (IRC)s per sub-programme per call
Strategic Programme Advisory Panel:
Review progress and results;
Advise on strategic and operational issues;
Exchange information and discuss policy issues in higher education and research;
Advise on additional areas of work and/or relevant networks or partners
Decisions remains with Norad/MFA

13. Gender Mainstreaming
Main priority for NORHED, crosscutting issue for the whole programme, to be reflected in all projects and at programme level
Both Gender as a dimension in education and research programmes, and Gender equality in student recruitment, staff recruitment etc
Each project to include both the gender dimension and gender equality, targets to be set, and budget to reflect this.
University of Gadjah Mada, Indonesia

14. NORHED Main Call 2013 Open call on all sub-programmes 173 applications
Evaluated by six Independent Review Committees
Resulted in 46 projects recommended for funding
Agreements entered with 36 projects

15. Result 1st Call Land/ Del-program Edu-cation Health
Natural Resource Management, Climate Change and Environment
Democratic and Economic Governance
Humanities, Culture, Media and Communication
South Sudan
Total
DR Congo 1
Ethiopia 2 4 8
Kenya
Malawi 3 5
Myanmar
Nicaragua
Nepal
Palestine
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Sør-Sudan
Tanzania
Uganda 12
Vietnam
Zambia
Zimbabwe 11 13 6 46
Result 1st Call

16. Sub-programme
No of applications
No of approved projects
Education 31 8
Health 37 11
Natural Resource Management, Climate Change and Environment 59 13
Democratic and Economic Governance 17 5
Humanities, Culture, Media and Communication 19 6
Capacity Development in South Sudan 10 3
Total
173 46

17. HEI in countries with more than one NORHED project: I tillegg har følgende institusjoner NORHED-prosjekter: State university of Zanzibar, Jimma University, University of Public Health (Myanmar), MUHAS, Uni of Kinshasa, Uni of KwaZulu Natal, Nha Trang University, Copperbelt University, UDSM, Uni of Peradeniya, Sokoine, Kathmandu, MUBS, Uni of Zimbabwe, Birzeit University, Uni of Khartoum, Addis Ababa University, Uganda Christian University
LMIC institution
Number of projects
Makerere University 7
University of Malawi 4
Kyambogo University 2
Hawassa University
Tribhuvan University 3
University of Juba
Mekelle University

18. Evaluation
The NORHED programme will be subject to a real-time evaluation commissioned by the Evaluation Department in Norad.
The University of Southern California’s Development Portfolio Management Group (DPMG) will conduct the evaluation.
The projects themselves are responsible to initiate reviews and evaluations at project level.
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