African Drylands Center: A Higher Education Development Collaboration to Build Scientific Capacity

The African Dryalnds Center is a collaborative effort for a network of institutions including the University of Nairobi, Colorado State University, RUFORUM (a network of African Institutions that trains graduate students in the sciences) and Reto-a-Reto ( a Drylands community group that helps bring women and girls from pastoral communities into higher education). The Center focuses on building capacity through collaborative training and curriculum with its international partners and the diaspora.