University of Cape Town
For Support Of The Centre Of Actuarial Research's (CARe) Population Science Training Program
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Amount$500,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/15/2010
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Term24 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Overview
Although the sub-Saharan African population projects to double in the next forty years, the African continent continues to lack adequate vital registration systems needed to accurately generate information about births, deaths, and other life events for development policy and budgets. A grant to the University of Cape Town would support the Centre for Actuarial Research (CARe), the only African institution currently training population scientists to use demographic estimation techniques to overcome these poor data systems and convey population data for policy. Through its partnership with the Foundation, CARe supports vulnerable junior scientists from as many as fifteen different African countries to develop skills in technical demography. These scholars move on to research positions in their home governments and research institutes across Southern and Eastern Africa.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.uct.ac.za
Address
University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Western Cape, 7700, South Africa
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