Today, the Norwegian Center for International Cooperation in Education (SIU) released its list of Universities and projects that have won five-year projects for 2017-2021. SIU will inject the equivalent of 38 trillion Uganda shillings in 21 projects from different countries selected over the next fiveyears.
I am saddened to learn that not a single university from Uganda has won these prestigious grants from the Norwegian government under the Norwegian Partnership Programme for Global Academic Cooperation. This isdespite being one of the countries with the highest number of applications, with a whole 14 applications submitted from Uganda. These projects would pump billions of shillings into the economy over the next five years, help our country train scholars, strengthen research capacity of our universities, and train PhD and masterstudents.
Interestingly, universities in our neighbourhood including Kenya,
