The University of Dar es Salaam School of Economics (UDSOE), in partnership with the Norwegian School of Life Sciences (NMBU) and Makerere University Business School (MUBS) are implementing a capacity building project in Energy Economics, Governance and Research Competence Building under NORAD. This is a five-year project that started in 2021.

Prof Begland Olvar from NMBU providing a gift to the Dean, School of Economics University of Dar es Salaam, Dr. Beatrice Mkenda during the opening session witnessed by Prof. Garcia from the NMBU

NORHED II Project is conducting a  week-long coordination meeting at the UDSOE from 16^th January, 2023 to 22^nd January, 2023. The meeting is attended by the implementing partners from NMBU, MUBS and UDSOE.

Dr. Stephen Kirama, Deputy NORHED II Project Coordinator receiving a gift from Prof. Olvar Begland from NMBU

During the coordination meeting, the participating teams discuss progress on commissioned research on energy access and energy choices in rural and urban Tanzania, the Leave No One Behind Initiative (LNOBI) progress report, Curriculum Development on Bachelor of Arts in Energy Economics, Masters of Arts in Energy Economics and PhD in Energy Economics.

Apart from the research related activities, the visiting partner teams discuss  with the Masters of Arts in Economics and Masters of Arts in Applied Economics students on the potential areas of research in Energy Economics and opportunities to participate in the ongoing thematic research themes under NORHED II.

In addition, Prof. Olvar Begland, Professor of Economics from the Norwegian School of Life Sciences will provide a special lecture on Quantitative Methods on Optimal Estimation of Electricity employing the Kuhn Tucker Approach. Also, he will teach a topic in EC 662 on Static Optimization for a class of about 40 Masters students on 18th Jan 2023.

Prof. Olvar during a lecture to the MAE and MAAE students on potential areas of research in Energy Economics

During the session on the potential areas of research in energy economics, Prof. Olvar was accompanied by Dr. Livingstone Senyonga, from the Makerere University Business School (MUBS), Dr. Stephen Kirama, Deputy NORHED II Project Coordinator and Ms. Liyau Ally, graduate student at UDSOE.

Seated on the right front row are Ms. Liyau, graduate student at UDSOE and Dr. Senyonga from MUBS who were facilitating the one hour session

The coordination meeting is conducted jointly by the participating universities. In  2022 , the meeting was hosted by MUBS, and next year, it will be conducted at NMBU, Norway.

Group photo of the NORHED II Project Implementation Partners from NMBU, MUBS and UDSOE

The delegation from NMBU is composed of Prof. Olvar Begland, NORHED II Project Coordinator and Prof. Garcia from NMBU. The MUBS team is composed of Dr. Livingstone Senyonga, Dr. Ronnette Atukunda, Dr. Ruth Atuhaire and Mr. Bosco Amurite.

One of the joint sessions of the NORHED II implementation partners.

The visiting NORHED II delegation will participated in the curricular development session in Bagamoyo on 19^th and 20^th January, 2023. The UDSOE appreciates the visit and wish the delegation a fruitful stay in Tanzania.