COHESA - Capacitating One Health in Eastern and Southern Africa

Project duration

48 Months

Start 17/12/21 End 16/12/25

Project-location

Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda

Contact

Theo Knight-Jones

ILRI

T.Knight-Jones@cgiar.org

Innovation Fund
R&I
Indigenous knowledge

Threats to animal, human, plant and environment health, many of which occur at the interface of these health domains, will be addressed by looking at food systems and ecosystems through the integrated approach of One Health (OH). The operational capacities of a wide array of public and private OH stakeholders will be strengthened in the design and implementation of state-of-the-art research and innovation (R&I) activities and OH policies. Combined with a social-ecological system (SES) framework that will explicitly link health and ecosystem management with resilience, the adaptive capacity of the actors within SES will be strengthened to prevent and cope with emerging health and environmental risks.

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Publications

Explore the project’s actions and objectives by clicking on the image below to read the factsheet:

Discover COHESA objectives by clicking on image below to read the project poster:

Explore the mid-term results of the COHESA project – December 2023- by clicking on the image below to read the factsheet:

Find out more about COHESA’s partners and beneficiaries by clicking on the image below to view the project infographic.

Explore the Report of the Capacitating One Health in Eastern and Southern Africa Biennial Conference. Click the image below to read the publication:

Project coordinator

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) – Kenya

Project partners

The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) AfriCenter – Kenya

Centre de cooperation internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD) – France

Third grantees

BOSTWANA – One Health in Bostwana, implemented by Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (BUAN)
ETHIOPIA – One Health in Ethiopia, implemented by Addis Ababa University (AAU)
KENYA – One Health in Kenya, implemented by University of Nairobi (UoN)
MALAWI – One Health in Malawi, implemented by Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR)
MOZAMBIQUE – One Health in Mozambique, implemented by Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM)
NAMIBIA – One Health in Namibia, implemented by University of Namibia (UNAM)
RWANDA – One Health in Rwanda, implemented by University of Global Health Equity
SOMALIA – One Health in Somalia, implemented by Amound University
TANZANIA – One Health in Tanzania, implemented by Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA)
UGANDA – One Health in Uganda, implemented by Makerere University (MU)
ZAMBIA – One Health in Zambia, implemented by University of Zambia (UNZA)
ZIMBANBWE – One Health in Zimbabwe, implemented by University of Zimbabwe (UZ)