Egerton University in its main campus Njoro has launched a new Material Science Physics Laboratory, equipped with tools and resources worth  millions of Kenyan shillings, to support the education and research of its students.

Prof Nzula Kitaka is the Kenyan team leader of the new collaborative project; Trans-Path-Plan: Water Transformation Pathways Planning. This five-year initiative is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs under DUPC 3: Water and Development Partnership Programme, Large-scale projects, with a total funding of 1,499,985 euros.

Prof Nzula Kitaka is playing a crucial role as the university coordinator in the recently launched Nile Student Exchange Project, which aims to contribute to sustainable transboundary water governance and management in the Nile Basin. The project, launched by the Nile Basin Capacity Building Network Foundation (NBCBN) in Egypt in partnership with IHE Delft in the Netherlands, targets ten students per year from universities in Kenya, Egypt, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Burundi.