The Anga Center uses a “core” model to advance our mission, with dedicated teams leading key areas such as research, capacity building, community collaboration, and dynamic systems and partnerships. These cores work in close coordination, allowing for a cohesive, multi-pronged approach that integrates best practices across all domains.
Our “Core” Model
The Research Core leads collaborative studies that explore how climate change affects women’s health, safety, and well-being in East Africa’s most climate-vulnerable communities. We combine qualitative and quantitative methods, guided by community voices, to generate findings that inform policy, practice, and future research, ensuring knowledge is created with communities, not just about them.
The Community Collaborative Core is dedicated to amplifying the voices and experiences of community members to shape the direction of climate change and health research, education, and action. Rooted in principles of ubuntu, equity, co-creation, and respect, this core ensures that communities are not only participants in research but also co-leaders in generating knowledge and driving change.
The Capacity Building Core fosters equitable knowledge exchange, skill development, and mentorship so early-career researchers, citizen scientists, communities, and practitioners can lead climate and health research. Through hands-on training, mentorship, and strengthened infrastructure, we create pathways for emerging leaders to thrive. We co-create research priorities with communities, connect local teams to global networks, and ensure knowledge flows in all directions.
The Dynamic Systems & Partnerships Core exists to disrupt the status quo in climate change and health research. We strive for non-hierarchical, circular systems that prioritize relationships, channeling resources into the communities that need them, co-leading decisions with local leaders, embedding rigorous and culturally aligned research with local ethics and standards, making knowledge transparent and accessible, and anchoring our collaborations in shared values. We aim to model a partnership-centered approach to research, one where transparency, accountability, and community leadership drive sustainable change.