Amos Ochieng
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Department of Forestry, Biodiversity and Tourism, School of Forestry, Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Makerere University
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https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Agjm_xsAAAAJ&hl=en
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amos-ochieng-40940519/
https://twitter.com/AmosOch38194648
https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5161-3897
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amos-Ochieng-2
https://theconversation.com/profiles/amos-ochieng-699337
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Mathijs van Leeuwen
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Mathijs van Leeuwen is a rural development sociologist, who specialises in conflict and peacebuilding in developing countries. After his graduation at Wageningen University in 1999, he worked as a researcher at Clingendael, and with various NGOs in Kenya, Sudan, Guatemala and Bolivia. His PhD research at Wageningen Disaster Studies (2004-2008) concerned discourses and practices of civil society peacebuilding and their international support, with fieldwork in a.o. Burundi and Guatemala.
Since 2009, Mathijs works at the Centre for International Conflict Analysis and Management (CICAM). His current research work focuses on land disputes, post-conflict land reform, local peacebuilding, state formation, and the discourses of intervening organizations on conflict and peace. Many of his research projects are interactive in nature, and challenge policy makers and practitioners from development organizations to critically reflect on their own work and on the implications of research findings for policy and intervention.
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www.ru.nl/en/people/leeuwen-m-van
orcid.org/0000-0002-1994-2626
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An Ansoms
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An Ansoms is a professor in the social sciences at UCLouvain (Belgium). She heads a research group on rural transformations in Central and Eastern Africa (www.juwaresearch.org). The team is involved in interdisciplinary research on climate change and natural resource conflict. They conduct in-depth research in eastern DRC, Rwanda and Burundi; and they adopt innovative and action-oriented methodological approaches that engage with various forms of art (theatre, cartoons, songs). An is also an expert on research ethics, focusing in particular upon ethical and emotional dilemmas in difficult research fields.
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Dr Lothar Smith
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Lothar Smith is Associate Professor in human geography at the Radboud University, The Netherlands. His research interests go out to processes related to changing social configurations coming out of migration such as gender role changes, institutional arrangements of local resources, and societal changes and frictions arising out of rural and urban development. To that end I have supervised a PhD project of the Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA) in Sri Lanka, looking at the role of diasporas in the redevelopment of post-conflict regions. I am also part of the Dutch-Indonesian New Indonesian Frontiers Programme that focuses on the impact on local populations of changing economic-ecological situations in Kalimantan. Another project, also in Indonesia, looks at the status of stateless Rohingya refugees.
In Ghana I have affiliations with the Centre for Migration Studies (Accra) and S.D. Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (Wa). Concerning the CMS I played an instrumental role in its research and educational program development. The relationship with the second has allowed for longitudinal research on rural-urban connectivities, livelihoods and mobility questions. This also pertains to climate change, gender shifts, youth aspirations and the reconfiguration of rural-urban spaces, the focus of PhD research I supervise in refugee camps of Uganda and in coastal Nigeria.
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Assistant Professor Juliette Alenda-Demoutiez
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Dr. Juliette Alenda-Demoutiez is an Assistant Professor at the chair group of Economic Theory and Policy and co-coordinator of the multi-disciplinary TransAct (Transformative sustainable change in Action) Hotspot at Radboud University (the Netherlands). Her research focuses on two main topics, both connected in order to understand how we can initiate systemic transformations for sustainable economies and societies. The first one is the participatory governance of nature in sub-Saharan Africa, with an institutionalist perspective. The second one is the development of alternative economic and development systems, with a focus on degrowth and post-development through a political-economic perspective. Juliette is partnering with different research networks in Europe and Africa to work on these issues in order to achieve transformations through different channels (research, education and policymaking).
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Dr Bernhard Reinsberg
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Bernhard Reinsberg is a Reader in Politics and a UK Research & Innovation Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Glasgow. His research is in the field of political economy and international development. He seeks to understand when and why policy interventions by international development organizations are effective toward the Sustainable Development Goals. A focus of his research has been on the transformation of funding structures in international organizations, specifically the rise of earmarked funding from donor governments. His work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as American Journal of Sociology, Journal of European Public Policy, Governance, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Regulation and Governance, Review of International Organizations, and World Development.
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Dr Francis X. Jarawura
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Francis Xavier Jarawura has been researching into various issues in rural development with a focus on the northern Savannah of Ghana since 2007. Combining a rich background in development studies and human geography in traversing the region, he has gained extensive and invaluable experience in research. His main focus has been on migration, environmental change, and rural livelihoods.
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Carmen Liliana Medina
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Somos un Proyecto de Investogación Participativa, que enfoca el estudia el derecho a la equidad como marco para la sustentabilidad (humana, ecologica, social, cultural afectiva). Nos efocamosen…con miras a expandir…
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Facebook page: Semillero de literacidades insumisas
Instagram: instagram.com/semilleroli
Email: semilleroli@outlook.com
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Sharifa Abdulla
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Dr Sharifa Abdulla is a Malawian scholar and participatory arts for development practitioner holding a senior lecturer position with the School of Arts, Communication and Design, University of Malawi.
She holds a PhD in Education from the University of Glasgow (Public Health engagement through Community Arts). Sharifa’s work focuses on the design and development of arts-based methodologies that work with indigenous knowledge systems and integrate communities as vital agents of change. Her work on decolonizing methodologies focuses on conducting ethical research with indigenous and less privileged communities. She is an expert facilitator around participatory practices and approaches to community engagement.
- Design, development, leadership and implementation of participatory health related programs for over 16 years, including co-founding the Art and Global Health Center Africa (Artglo). She is also a founding member of the Malawi Medical Humanities Network.
- Design, development, and delivery of training packages on participatory ethical community engagements and Community Centred Approaches to health promotion and Development.
- Design and develop Social Behaviour Change Programs for health promotion
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Rakhat Zholdoshalvieva
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Rakhat is Team Leader of the Quality Learning Ecosystems programme at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, Hamburg, Germany.
Formerly a teacher educator in her native Kyrgyzstan and later in Pakistan, Rakhat currently works as a Team Leader of the Quality Learning Ecosystems Programme at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) in Hamburg, Germany. Before joining UIL, she worked with the Deputy Ministry for Literacy of the Ministry of Education in Afghanistan. In this capacity, she contributed to the capacity development of curriculum designers and textbook writers and managed the development of new early literacy and numeracy textbooks for youth and adults. Rakhat holds a doctorate in education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada, and a master’s degree from the Institute for Educational Development at Aga Khan University, Pakistan. Rakhat and her team coordinate the Secretariat of the Global Alliance for Literacy, a global network of 30 countries and 14 associate members, to advocate for literacy at the global level. She is currently co-editing a book on family literacy and learning from an international perspective with Professor Esther Prins of the Pennsylvania State University, USA.
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