UNU research focuses on the challenges faced by the United Nations and its Member States. Our current research portfolio supports all of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015 to inspire global action to overcome the world’s biggest challenges.
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Environmental Assessment of Vertical Farming from a Resource Nexus Perspective
This project aims to provide holistic environmental assessment of vertical farming and investigate the economic feasibility of VF projects.
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Catalysing Policy Improvement in Africa
This project aims to improve policy outputs in the areas of maternal, newborn, sexual and reproductive health across five African countries.
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Transformative Climate Action using Participatory data driven decision making platforms (T-CAP)
This project aims to enhance local actors' capacity for collaborative & transformative climate actions by using data-driven decision-making platforms.
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Advancing Gender Equality in Health: Expanding voices, evidence, and time horizons for change
To support gender-responsive change within systems and sectors, this project will deliver a thematic issue of 'Health Research Policy and Systems'.
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Scoping and recommendations related to gender language, and documenting good practice in engaging civil society
This project will contribute to WHO's work to address health inequities and strengthen the capacity of health experts in delivering on global health.
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Vertical Farming for Urban Food Security: Social Acceptance and Policy Recommendations for Building Communities (VerFarming Social)
This project aims to explore the potential of vertical farming to revolutionise agriculture and provide a more resilient solution to food security.
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Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture (UPA) and Climate Change: Impacts, Mitigation, and Adaptation
This project aims to better understand the impacts of UPA, in order to develop adaptive measures to minimise trade-offs and optimise co-benefits.
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RRR-Coast: Towards a green and inclusive post-pandemic recovery of the Blue Economy and coastal communities
This project aims to provide science-based guidance for post COVID recovery of coastal communities by investigating impact, response and resilience.
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Quantification of water-gender interlinkages for greater inclusivity
This project will provide a numerical assessment of the status of women’s representation in the water sector in individual countries/regions globally
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Lessons from COVID-19 for understanding and managing systemic risks in the SADC region (CARICO SADC)
The project provides actionable knowledge to understand the complex interaction of risks and impacts at the regional level in the 16 SADC countries.