The Environmental Policy Research Unit (EPRU) works to enhance environmental and natural resource economics policy-making and support sustainable development and poverty reduction in South and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Based at the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and a regional center for the Environment for Development (EfD), EPRU is a leading institution in resource economics in the Global South.
It offers a place for academics and postgraduate students to work together to better understand regional environmental and natural resource issues, with education and training central to its mandate with the supervision of Masters and PhD candidates. It offers scholarships and funding and provides extensive infrastructural support to students. Through its outreach efforts, EPRU works to inform policy, connect with other specialists, and promote environmental economics to non-specialists. EPRU is a proud member of the Environment for Development (EfD) network, a global network of environment and development economists who conduct cutting-edge research and academic capacity building and policy interaction in various developing and emerging countries.
More information about EPRU can be found on their website.
EPRU seeks to employ a permanent, full-time Principal Research Officer (PRO). The PRO will lead a global program on Impact Evaluation of Environment and Development Interventions, and will also lead capacity-building initiatives implemented in other Sub-Saharan African countries in collaboration with the EfD Global Hub.
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Closing date: 14 March 2025 Reference: ID 1012
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