Rural Social Sciences Scholarship Fund (RSSSF)
AAI administered the Rural Social Sciences Scholarship Fund (RSSSF), from 1998 until 2008 through its Mozambique office. RSSSF was funded by the Ford Foundation and was designed to strengthen Mozambique’s national and local rural development agencies through providing graduate and undergraduate training for young Mozambican professionals. RSSSF scholars earned master’s and Ph.D. degrees in agriculture, environmental studies, education sciences, political science, public policy and development studies at academic institutions in Brazil, Mozambique, the Netherlands, South Africa, the United States, and Zimbabwe.
In 2002, the program’s focus expanded to provide undergraduate training specifically for individuals living in rural areas of Mozambique who had not received prior formal university education. The continued goal of RSSSF was to educate participants to apply social science principles to rural development policy and practice in Mozambique.
Total Number of Participants: 34