Proposal Funding - Research, Innovation and Technology Transfer

AWARDED PROPOSALS FOR INTERNAL RESEARCH FUNDING 2021/2022 FY

S/NO	TITLE	PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR	SCORE	AMOUNT (KES)
1	Greening the Leather Industry through the Use of Cultivated Plants to Manufacture Eco-friendly Leather Dyes	Dr. Elijah Muange	89	699,878
2	Towards a Secure and Resilient Virtual Platform for STEM Programmes in University Teaching	Dr. Edgar Owiti	77	654,000
3	Effect of Simulated Rainfall and Natural Weather on Chromated Copper Arsenate Treated Wood and Environmental Remediation: A Focus on Wood Treatment Plants in Kenya	Dr. Veronica Okello	76.5	692,960
4	Biocontrol of Tomato Bacterial Wilt Disease Using Bacteriophage Culture	Dr. Christabel Muhonja	75.5	697,886
5	Impacts of Covid-19 on Community Conservation and Nature-Based Tourism Enterprises in the Amboseli Ecosystem in Kenya	Prof. Stanley Maingi Makindi	75.5	700,000
6.	Mitigating The Effects of Stigmatization on the Mental Health of Students and Staff in Kenyan Universities Due to Digital Exclusion	Prof. Henry Etende Embeywa	75	647,900

S/NO	DATE	PROPOSAL TITLE	Machakos University Staff Involved	Partnering Institution	Amount Applied in KES	Funding Organization and Amount Requested
1	25^th April 2022	Approaches to Managing Human-Elephant Conflict in Kiboko, Kenya	Prof. Stanley Makindi		KES 200,000	Jana Robeyst Trust Fund
2.	8^th May 2022	Documentation, analysis and validation of nutritive and medicinal values of some selected Kenyan and Ethiopian Plants	Prof. Zachary Getenga (P11), Prof. Yalemtsehay Mekonnen (P12)	College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia		The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
3.	17^th May 2022	A Trivalent Microbial Approach to Food Security in Kenya: Resident Fungi as Biodegraders, Biopesticides and Biofertilizers	Dr. Christabel Muhonja			The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
4.	31^st May 2022	Long term EU-AU Platform for enabling Green Hydrogen Value Chains (lea	Prof. Zachary Getenga, University of Florence, Sousse University, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, University of Cape Town and other Institutions		100M Euros	European Union