Name: Prof. Robert Marchant, University of York

Background:  Water ESSENCE -  creating synergy to meet the global challenges is a NORHED project funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD).  The aim of the program is to strengthen the capacity of higher education institutions in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC) to educate more and better-qualified candidates and to increase the quality and quantity of research conducted by the countries' own researchers.