Abstract
In 2010, the United States Agency for International
Development, The Association of Public and Land-grant
Universities and Higher Education for Development
awarded 11 Africa-US Higher Education partnership
grants of $1.1 million each to universities in Africa
and the US to address national and regional priorities
in sub-Saharan Africa. Each partnership will develop
collaborative research and academic programs to
build the capacity of the African and US institutions to
affect change in Africa. This paper describes one of the
partnerships between North Dakota State University
(NDSU) and Makerere University (Mak) in Uganda that
addresses capacity building in integrated management
of transboundary animal diseases and zoonoses in
Eastern and Central Africa. In addition, NDSU and
Mak are part of a consortium of twelve North American
and African institutions of higher learning working
collaboratively to offer global educational experiences
with an emphasis on animal production and health and
food security. Several components of the aforementioned
partnership will be discussed including: 1) Africa-US
Partnerships, the twinning model; 2) global perspective
of Higher Education training; 3) centers of excellence
model and the academic-community-public-private
partnerships framework under the Africa Institute for
Strategic Services Development; and 4) the challenges
and achievements of the NDSU-Mak partnership.