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Project Success Stories
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Leveraging Blockchain to Transform the African Indigenous Vegetable (AIV) Value Chain in Western Kenya
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Over the past two years, a team from Virginia Tech, Egerton University, and the Australian startup AgUnity have
been studying the AIV value chain in Kakamega county, to determine if a new blockchain-based smartphone app could help improve livelihoods, nutrition, and value chain efficiency for last-mile agricultural communities.

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A Visit to Nairobi and the Sasumua River Watershed
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Despite the travel related challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, Margaret Gitau (PI) and Victoria Garibay made a successful field
trip to Kenya as part of the LASER PULSE East Africa Water Security (LPEAWS) Project.
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The team’s first stop was the Kenya Water Resources Authority (WRA), the entity that regulates water resources management and use in Kenya.
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Project Applies Embedded Research Translation Toward Air Pollution in Vietnam
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The Avoid the TRAP project is a multi-sector collaboration among health, education, and environment representations to minimize the impact of traffic-related
air pollution (TRAP) on children in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
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JEiE Publication Addresses PSS Intervention in South Sudan
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21st Century Development Research Leadership for Low Income Country Higher Education Institutions.
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New Resources Available to Assist in Embedded Research Translation (ERT)
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LASER PULSE is excited to present additional tools and learning modules to Network members that address critical areas in knowledge, understanding,
and implementation of ERT. You can find learning modules linked in the titles with accompanying resources linked in the description. View the resources of our entire catalog here.
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Global Research Challenge in Development (GRCD) RFA
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Three teams – two from Nepal and one from Rwanda – ultimately received awards totaling approximately $580,000.
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Featured Question for the Network
Building off the release of our short course on
Storytelling in Research Translation, how have you used storytelling in research translation or how do you plan to use it in 2022? Share your
“storytelling story” with other network members on our
Community Forum, it might inspire someone else!
You may post to our member-exclusive forum with your
laserpulse.org account. Lots more on the forum!
 
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