Project Profile: SCARIA
Towards Sustainable Community-Based Mitigation of Rodent Issues in African Cities
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | Gauthier Dobigny, French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development/Centre for Biology and Management of Populations, France |
| Partners: | Karmadine Hima, Abdou Moumouni University, Niger Gualbert Houemenou, University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin Yonas Meheretu, Mekelle University, Ethiopia Sani Ousmane, Centre for Medical and Health Research, Niger Soanandrasana Rahelinirina, Pasteur Institute of Madagascar, Madagascar Vohangy Soarimalala, Vahatra, Madagascar Luwieke Bosma, MetaMeta Research, The Netherlands |
| Sponsors: | French National Alliance for Environmental Research, France French National Research Agency, France Future Earth, International/Africa |
What?
| Full Project Title: | Towards Sustainable Community-Based Mitigation of Rodent Issues in African Cities |
| Full Call Title: | Pathways2020 |
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Why?
| Project Objective: | A panel of academics, public services, social enterprises, local NGOs, associations and representatives will pursue two main objectives: (1) to build and animate multi-stakeholder local working groups in four urban living labs who will rely on both scientific and local knowledge to discuss and formalize an urban EBRM adapted to each local socio-economic, cultural and environmental context; (2) to produce baseline data (cartography; rodent diversity, mobility and spatial distribution; zoonotic pathogens in rodents and humans; socio-economic impacts of rodents; project perception by the inhabitants) in all four pilot sites to provide socio-environmental proxies for future urban EBRM implementation and evaluation. |
| Call Objective: | The goal of this CRA is to provide a science base for achieving sustainability goals. The CRA will support 1-2 years of collaborative research networking activities that focus on integrated qualitative and quantitative approaches to develop Earth-system-based transformation pathways for sustainable development. |
Where?
| Regions: | Africa |
| Countries: | Benin, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Niger |
When?
| Duration: | 24 months |
| Call Date: | 2020 |
| Project Award Date: | 01 June 2021 |
