Financed by the UNESCO Participation Programme, the Promoting Equitable and Inclusive Internationalization at Universities in Africa project aims at promoting equitable and inclusive internationalization of higher education both in terms of knowledge and people, paying special attention to women (at all levels from Leadership to students).

In collaboration with the Women’s University in Africa, Zimbabwe, the IAU, using the HEIAS Programme methodology, facilitates and undertakes an in-depth assessment of the university’s internationalization strategy and process in order to create more inclusive and equitable internationalization strategies, which would leverage African specificities and promote women’s engagement. This is done by working with an institutional committee and an international Panel of Experts. The project will also share such experiences and debate how to make internationalization more equitable and inclusive in a final workshop with Zimbabwean academic community and beyond.

This project responds to the growing need and demand among African higher education institutions to strengthen their institutional capacity for internationalization policies and programmes which would not simply be a transposition of models copied from other regions of the world, but which would be suitable for the local African context; it promotes African culture and knowledge and focuses on equality and inclusion, especially but not only, of women.