Community well-being in Kiribati during the Covid-19 crisis
by In this article I present my master thesis for the NOHA+ programme in International Humanitarian Action. My research covers three of the major challenges of …
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Mbete Youth Football Project sets the ball rolling in rural Zambia
African footballers have always enthralled the English Premier League fans, but have you ever thought of the hardships that they had to endure to reach …
Malaysian University Consortium for Environment and Development – Industry & Urban Areas
MUCED started activities in 2001, 20 years ago. What do different participants in the programme think of it? Does it have any impact today? Has …
AfricaLics (Part 1): South-North partnerships through the lens of AfricaLics
This is the first of two articles about the organisation Africa Lics (an acronym for African Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building …
AfricaLics (Part 2): A first-hand account of the Visiting Fellowship Programme (VFP) experience
This is the second of two articles about the organisation AfricaLics. In the first article, I speak with Dr Margrethe Holm Andersen about the organisation, …
Multidisciplinary collaboration to secure the future of water in Cape Town
In 2018, the City of Cape Town declared a city-wide water crisis, which would be punctuated by ‘Day Zero’ – the day the city would run out of water. The drought had been looming for years, and the City of Cape Town had made some management changes, but all rested on the assumption that rain would fall at the same rate as in the past.
DDRN has two new student interns!
by Meet Krishnanunni Mavinkal Ravindran from India and Megan Roux from South Africa
Gulu: When a PhD Student Investigates the Relevance of a University to the Neighbouring Community
When Asaf Adebua in 2017 started to study for his PhD at Gulu University ‘The Contributions of Institutions of Higher Learning to Post-war Community Transformation: The Case of Gulu University in Gulu District’, he was investigating the relevance of his university to the community it targets to transform, going by the university’s motto, For Community Transformation.
Blended System: E-Learning and Democracy for Education in Africa
Geoffrey Tabo Olok in 2016 enrolled at Aalborg University to study e-learning for his PhD. Olok and his supervisors now have their eyes on an ambitious plan to establish a centre of excellence in ICT research and learning not only for Gulu University but also to improve Africa’s relevance in that area.
From North to South: Gulu University Steadily Takes Up Problem Based Learning
On a cloudy October Friday at Gulu University, a few dozens of Masters students from the Faculty of Business and Development Studies fill up a little shelter set up by the Building Stronger Universities (BSU) project for workshops and conferences. One group after another, from within themselves, they step forward to present their research works to a makeshift team of internal and external examiners. The audience includes their peers, their supervisors, and professors Inger Lassen and Iben Jensen from Aalborg University in Denmark.