Note de cadrage sur les services de conseil agricole répondant aux besoins du marché

Préparé par le Groupe de Neuchâtel, un groupe informel constitué de représentants d'agences de développement et d'organisations professionnelles participant au développement agricole en Afrique subsaharienne, ce livret résume les résultats d'une trentaine d'études de cas compilées en 2006 sur les services d'encadrement agricole. L'ouvrage abonde de conseils sur les moyens de promouvoir une démarche orientée vers le marché

Building the capacity to solve complex health challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa : CARTA’s multidisciplinary PhD training

Objectives: To develop a curriculum (Joint Advanced Seminars- JAS) that produced PhD fellows who understood that health is an outcome of multiple determinants within complex environments and that approaches from a range of disciplines is required to address health and development within the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa. We sought to attract PhD fellows, supervisors and teaching faculty from a range of disciplines into the program. Methods: Multidisciplinary teams developed the JAS curriculum. CARTA PhD fellowships were open to academics in consortium member institutions, irrespective of primary discipline, interested in doing a PhD in public and population health. Supervisors and JAS faculty were recruited from CARTA institutions. We use routine JAS evaluation data (closed and open ended questions) collected from PhD fellows at every JAS, a survey of one CARTA cohort and an external evaluation of CARTA to assess the impact of the JAS curriculum on learning. Results: We describe our pedagogic approach arguing its centrality to an appreciation of multiple disciplines and illustrate how it promotes working in multidisciplinary ways. CARTA has attracted PhD fellows, supervisors and JAS teaching faculty from across a range of disciplines. Evaluations indicate PhD fellows have a greater appreciation of how disciplines other than their own are important to understand health and its determinants and an appreciation and capacity to employ mixed methods research. Conclusions: In the short-term, we have been effective in promoting an understanding of multidisciplinarity resulting in fellows using methods from beyond their discipline of origin. This curriculum has international application

Human rights perspectives on climate change adaptation: Civil society experiences in Cambodia and Kenya

A growing number of civil society organisations apply human rights based approaches in their work. But what are the practical experiences with such approaches in climate change adaptation? This new DIIS report examines how NGOs in Cambodia and Kenya are approaching the issue of human rights in their efforts to support climate change adaptation. The report finds that while some NGOs are engaging human rights issues in climate change directly and openly through a “hard advocacy” approach, most choose a different strategy: In a political context where human rights remain highly sensitive, some NGOs avoid the issue of rights altogether, and focus instead on the technical aspects of climate change adaptation. Others apply a “soft advocacy” approach in which they seek to influence rights issues indirectly by collaborating with government agencies. The report discusses the nature and impact of these different approaches to human rights in climate change, and the perceptions and challenges that they reflect

Extension, poverty and vulnerability Inception report of a study for the Neuchatel Initiative

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