PASS office is involved with the coordination of various projects undertaken by START in Africa. Currently the PASS office is coordinating three projects on Global Change research namely:

Building African Capacity for Conserving Biodiversity in a Changing Climate in the Albertine Region funded by MacArthur Foundation. The overall goal of the project is to establish a sustainable program to educate and train researchers and practitioners in Africa with an emphasis on Albertine Rift countries of Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.

The institute of Resource Assessments (IRA) of University of Dar es Salaam will assist and participate in the project “Workshop to Assess Needs and Opportunities for Fellowships to Build Capacity in Support of Climate Change Adaptation funded by IDRC. The overall objective of this project is to provide early- to mid-career African professionals and researchers learning opportunities to enhance their capabilities for advancing climate change adaptation in Africa.

The other program is the African Climate Change Fellowship Program on Climate Change Adaptation, also funded by IDRC, which would help to develop indigenous capacity in Africa for advancing and applying scientific knowledge for climate change adoption. The project will be jointly executed by International START Secretariat (START), the Institute for Resource Assessment (IRA) of the University of Dar es Salaam, and African Academy of science (AAS).