By Egerton University TAGDev Communication Team Abdiaziz Abdullahi Mohamed’s journey from a Dadaab classroom to a small business and a family home shows what happens when refugee education is treated as economic investment, not just academic opportunity HIGHLIGHT:  A single scholarship. Two income-generating outcomes. One family lifted from inadequate shelter to a home of their own — within a matter ...

By Egerton University TAGDev Communication Team For many children growing up in refugee camps, their world view is experienced through constant survival and uncertainty rather than possibility. For Nimo Khalif Abdi, access to education redefined her lived experience. A Childhood Shaped by Displacement, Not Defined by It In 2011, conflict forced Nimo’s family to flee Somalia for Kenya while she ...

By Egerton University TAGDev Communication Team  Development funding for refugee education is often justified in terms of rights and equity – and rightly so. But Ahmed Adi’s story makes a different, equally important case: that a single, well-placed investment in one student can generate returns that ripple through an entire household, and outward into a community of tens of thousands. ...

This election marks an important milestone in strengthening student leadership, participation, and representation within the Transforming African Agricultural Universities to Meaningfully Contribute to Africa’s Growth and Development(  TAGDev) 2.0 Programme. TAGDev 2.0 (2023–2033), implemented by RUFORUM in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, GCHERA, and twelve (12) partner universities, is committed to equipping and empowering Africa’s young people to drive inclusive, ...

The Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (BUAN) has achieved a major milestone in its mission to strengthen skills development and agricultural education following the signing of the first phase of a grant from the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA). The funding will support the implementation of the University’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) ...

By Egerton University TAGDev Communication Team  For Abdinassir Siyad Mohammed, education was never just about academic achievement. Forced to flee Somalia with his mother and siblings due to insecurity, he grew up in the Dadaab Refugee Complex, where access to quality schooling and higher learning was limited at nearly every stage. For him, education represented something more foundational: the key ...