The Institute for Development Studies (IDS) through its Director and Lead researcher, Prof.Karuti Kanyinga, are among five winners of $500K in philanthropic funding support by the Carnegie Foundation for each collaboration focused on emerging trans-regional trends in Africa, the Middle East, and beyond.

The Institute for Development Studies project will look at the roles of citizenship, political participation, and the decentralization of governance in North and sub-Saharan Africa.

Following the win, Prof. Karuti Kanyinga said: “This grant will enable scholars from North and sub-Saharan Africa to share experiences on the decentralization of governance with the goal of understanding incentives that political elites require to effectively deliver public goods to populations facing inequalities.”

The Carnegie Corporation of New York announced the results of a competitive grants program, awarding $500,000 each to five research initiatives focused on economic, social, technological, and governance phenomena cutting across Africa, the Middle East, and other regions.

Other winners of the grant include Economic Research Forum Cairo, Egypt; University of Birmingham Department of Political Science and International Studies, Birmingham, England; University of Ghana Institute of African Studies, Accra, Ghana and the University of the Witwatersrand Institute for Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg, South Africa.