CARTA is a consortium of eight African partner universities, four African research institutions, and eight non-African partner institutions, jointly led by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Kenya, and the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa.
The African partner institutions contribute to the realization of the objectives of the CARTA program in several ways. These include but are not limited to providing doctoral training and research capacity-building opportunities to CARTA fellows; facilitating CARTA fellows’ academic and research excellence and career development; and mainstreaming CARTA interventions in the institutions.
The non-African partners participate and contribute to the consortium in several ways, including but not limited to facilitating sessions in the Joint Advanced Seminars (JASes); mentoring graduates, supervisors, and faculty; facilitating fellows’ access to specialized training and international opportunities; and offering complementary and comparative academic experiences.
CARTA focal persons are central in the implementation of CARTA’s strategies at its partner institutions. Focal persons at African partner institutions are appointed by either the Vice Chancellor of partner universities or head of research institutions. Find the Focal Persons Handbook here.
