Monday, 19 February 2007
Internships (not neccessarily African)
The Institute of Development Studies in Sussex has a listings of internships available for any student African or not.
CIDA receives poor report from Canadian Senate
This week, the Canadian Senate delivered a report on the effectiveness of African overseas assistance to Africa. After over 400 interviews for their fact-finding mission, they found that all partners in the development of Africa have failed to improve the conditions of the continent.
From Canada, they recommended the following:
• The Government of Canada must establish a new Africa Office covering everything from aid to trade to security with 80% of staff in the field.
• There must be a review of CIDA to determine whether it should be abolished or improved.
• Concentrate foreign aid on countries in sub-Saharan Africa that are undertaking economic and political reforms.
• Focus aid on economic development and in support of pro-growth and job-creating activities led by the private sector.
• Deliver Canadian bilateral aid to Africa in partnership with the private sector and civil society.
• Review the appropriateness of Canadian food aid to Africa.
• Get Canada to remove virtually all barriers to imports from low income countries in sub-Saharan Africa, have more trade missions to Africa and have more Canadian diplomats with commercial backgrounds in Africa
• Canada should improve visa system to facilitate visits by African business people and political leaders
• Canada must push for more commerical ties with Africa
• Canada should concentrate on helping with health issues especially HIV/AIDS and malaria.
From Canada, they recommended the following:
• The Government of Canada must establish a new Africa Office covering everything from aid to trade to security with 80% of staff in the field.
• There must be a review of CIDA to determine whether it should be abolished or improved.
• Concentrate foreign aid on countries in sub-Saharan Africa that are undertaking economic and political reforms.
• Focus aid on economic development and in support of pro-growth and job-creating activities led by the private sector.
• Deliver Canadian bilateral aid to Africa in partnership with the private sector and civil society.
• Review the appropriateness of Canadian food aid to Africa.
• Get Canada to remove virtually all barriers to imports from low income countries in sub-Saharan Africa, have more trade missions to Africa and have more Canadian diplomats with commercial backgrounds in Africa
• Canada should improve visa system to facilitate visits by African business people and political leaders
• Canada must push for more commerical ties with Africa
• Canada should concentrate on helping with health issues especially HIV/AIDS and malaria.
Friday, 16 February 2007
Welcome to Africa's Student Network in Development Research
Welcome to Africa's Student Network in Development Research blogsite. The purpose of this website is to connect university students in and around Africa who specialize in Development Studies or Development Research. This network hopes to bring profile about the programmes in which we have enrolled and the talented people who have dedicated part of their academic career to pursue issues in African economic development, social policy, civil society, governance, HIV/AIDS, and the many other issues which affect this continent today.
The universities which are currently working on this project is the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, in Durban, South Africa and the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Nairobi. We hope to gain further partners and interest of other universities who specialize in the field of development.
This page will also attempt to post events, conferences, job postings and other current news in the development field and build perspective of the atmosphere we, as students in Africa, are surrounded with everyday at our respective schools. Feel free to comment and ask questions about what is happening on the ground! We look forward to better understanding what development students are researching in the African continent and the struggles or successes in conducting such research.
The universities which are currently working on this project is the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, in Durban, South Africa and the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Nairobi. We hope to gain further partners and interest of other universities who specialize in the field of development.
This page will also attempt to post events, conferences, job postings and other current news in the development field and build perspective of the atmosphere we, as students in Africa, are surrounded with everyday at our respective schools. Feel free to comment and ask questions about what is happening on the ground! We look forward to better understanding what development students are researching in the African continent and the struggles or successes in conducting such research.
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