Mandivamba Rukuni provides a range of strategies to create and increase wealth in Africa with special focus on Zimbabwe.
Presented at 'Moving Forward with Pro-poor Reconstruction in Zimbabwe' International Conference, Harare, Zimbabwe, (25 and 26 August 2009) where it was a keynote address.
High Performance Computing for Instabilities in Aerospace Propulsion Systemsinside-BigData.com
In this deck from PASC 2019, Thierry Poinsot from Toulouse Fluid Mechanics Institute presents: High Performance Computing for Instabilities in Aerospace Propulsion Systems.
"Combustion produces more than 80 percent of the world's energy. This will continue for a long time as the global energy growth remains much larger than what new renewable energies can provide. Our civilization must allow the growth of combustion sources but, at the same time, keep global warming as well as pollution under control. Science has a key role in this scenario: it must optimize combustion systems far beyond the present state of the art. To do this, one promising path is to use High Performance Computation to compute and optimize combustors before they are built. This talk focuses on aerospace propulsion where optimization often leads to the occurrence of instabilities where combustion couples with acoustics, leading to unacceptable oscillations (the most famous example is the Apollo engine which required 1330 full scale tests to reach acceptable oscillation levels). The talk will show how simulation is used to control these problems, in real gas turbine engines and in rocket engines."
Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-kq4
Learn more: https://pasc19.pasc-conference.org/
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
Climate-tech: how techies can make a difference in the fight against climate ...Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: Climate change may be the most important challenge facing humanity within our lifetime. A growing number of tech start-ups are addressing this crisis, so-called climate-tech companies. In my talk, I will give an overview of the most important fields of work and the companies out to save the world. I will also give tips on how as a tech person you can get involved.
BIO: My name is Moritz Walther. I am a German / American fintech geek looking to make a difference in the world. I work as a Product Manager at ecolytiq, a Berlin-based climate-tech that calculates carbon footprints based on banking data.
High Performance Computing for Instabilities in Aerospace Propulsion Systemsinside-BigData.com
In this deck from PASC 2019, Thierry Poinsot from Toulouse Fluid Mechanics Institute presents: High Performance Computing for Instabilities in Aerospace Propulsion Systems.
"Combustion produces more than 80 percent of the world's energy. This will continue for a long time as the global energy growth remains much larger than what new renewable energies can provide. Our civilization must allow the growth of combustion sources but, at the same time, keep global warming as well as pollution under control. Science has a key role in this scenario: it must optimize combustion systems far beyond the present state of the art. To do this, one promising path is to use High Performance Computation to compute and optimize combustors before they are built. This talk focuses on aerospace propulsion where optimization often leads to the occurrence of instabilities where combustion couples with acoustics, leading to unacceptable oscillations (the most famous example is the Apollo engine which required 1330 full scale tests to reach acceptable oscillation levels). The talk will show how simulation is used to control these problems, in real gas turbine engines and in rocket engines."
Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-kq4
Learn more: https://pasc19.pasc-conference.org/
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
Climate-tech: how techies can make a difference in the fight against climate ...Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: Climate change may be the most important challenge facing humanity within our lifetime. A growing number of tech start-ups are addressing this crisis, so-called climate-tech companies. In my talk, I will give an overview of the most important fields of work and the companies out to save the world. I will also give tips on how as a tech person you can get involved.
BIO: My name is Moritz Walther. I am a German / American fintech geek looking to make a difference in the world. I work as a Product Manager at ecolytiq, a Berlin-based climate-tech that calculates carbon footprints based on banking data.
Presentation focuses on the context, intent, content, design, construction, operation, maintenance and advantages of green buildings in reducing consumption of energy and resources and generation of waste to make, human settlements in general and our earth in particular, most livable and sustainable by reducing carbon footprints of built environment.
More than eighty percent of the world’s 500 largest companies established emission reduction or energy-specific targets in the 2014-15 financial year, according to CDP. Clearly, the business community is invested in preventing the adverse consequences of climate change and seizing opportunities in the new low-carbon economy. The next step in protecting that investment is to ensure that greenhouse gas reduction targets are set at the rate consistent with the pace recommended by climate scientists to limit the worst impacts of climate change. Science Based Targets is a joint initiative by CDP, the UN Global Compact (UNGC), the World Resources Institute (WRI) and WWF that raises the ambition of corporate mitigation efforts and drives bolder business solutions by identifying and promoting innovative approaches to corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) target setting.
This slide deck is from a webinar that outlined the Call to Action campaign. To learn more about this initiative and its event calendar, visit www.sciencebasedtargets.org.
Buildings use approximately 40% of the energy in the US. Buzzwords like “going green” and “energy efficient” are more prevalent today. LEED is a rating system, which provides designers the opportunity to tailor their design to reduce the impact on society and the surroundings. It is an integrated process involving the architect, landscape architect, civil engineer, MEP (mechanical, electrical and plumbing) consultant, lighting designer and contractor. As a design team these professionals evaluate energy trade offs within a conceptual design to create a functional building. This session will focus on LEED V4. It will target LEED’s definition, history and categories. More importantly, how to become a LEED accredited professional and LEED’s V4 holistic approach to building design.
The Global Development Lecture Series brings together scholars involved in cutting edge research on international development. It aims to facilitate dialogue and discussion, providing a space for leading development thinkers to share their latest research ideas with Manchester's staff and students.
Extreme naivette of us policy makers about pakistanAgha A
Extreme Naievette of US Policy makers about Pakistan
Major Agha H Amin (Retired)
Senator John Mc Cain , not a very cereberal man , and other amateur cooks and arm chair soldiers , have been passing some extremely naieve statements about US Policy dealing with Pakistan.
Will sum up the fallacies and extreme naievette of US policy makers in few simple headings which will make the discussion brief and precise :--
NAIEVETTE ONE
PAKISTAN DID NOT DEPLOY A SINGLE BATTALION TO INTERDICT 1500 KM OF BORDER THROUGH WHICH AFGHAN TALIBAN REPEATEDLY INFILTRATED TO LAUNCH ATTACKS ON US FORCES LEADING TO 95 % OF US CASUALTIES IN AFGHANISTAN—DESPITE THE FACT THAT PAKISTAN RECEIVED SOME 25 BILLION USD IN AID TO EXACTLY DO THIS TASK.
NAIEVETTE TWO
PAKISTANS SO CALLED MILITARY ACTION IN FATA HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH US OPERATIONS IN AFGHANISTAN.
WHEN US INVADED AFGHANISTAN PAKISTAN WAS ARM TWISTED BY BUSH TO JOIN US COALITION.
THIS PRODUCED A CONFUSION OF PRINCIPLE IN PAKISTAN AS PAKISTANI STATE HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN USING ISLAM TO JUSTIFY PROXY WARS USING ISLAMISTS IN AFGHANISTAN AND OTHER PLACES.
AS A RESULT A LOCAL PAKISTANI ISLAMIST EXTREMIST MOVEMENT KNOWN AS PAKISTANI TALIBAN EMERGED .
THE PAKISTANI OPERATIONS FROM 2001 TO DATE WERE AGAINST THESE PURELY LOCAL MILITANTS WHO HARDLY ATTACKED ANY US FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN AND ATTACKED THE PAKISTANI STATE ONLY AND THAT TOO AFTER 2003 WHEN PAKISTANS MILITARY USURPER MUSHARRAF LAUNCHED A TOTALLY UNPROVOKED ATTACK IN PAKISTANS TRIBAL AREA AS PART OF A DECEPTION PLAN TO DECEIVE US GOVERNMENT WHILE HE SECRETLY PROVIDED SANCTUARY TO 95 % OF AFGHAN TALIBAN IN BALUCHISTAN PROVINCE OF PAKISTAN.
NAIEVETTE THREE
PAKISTANS STRATEGIC INTERESTS IN AFGHANISTAN ARE TOTALLY OPPOSED TO US INTERESTS
PAKISTAN WANTS TO INSTALL A PAKISTANI PROXY GOVERNMENT IN AFGHANISTAN AND IS NOT HAPPY ABOUT US PRESENCE IN AFGHANISTAN SO NO AMOUNT OF US AID WILL CHANGE THIS BASIC STRATEGIC POSITION.
PAKISTAN SEES US PRESENCE IN AFGHANISTAN AS A HANGING STRATEGIC SWORD OF DAMOCLES AGAINST ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAM.
STRATEGICALLY US HAS ALREADY IRREVOCABLY LOST PAKISTAN WHICH IS ON ITS WAY TO BECOMING A CHINES SEMI AUTONOMOUS PROVINCE IN NEXT 15 TO 30 YEARS.
NAIEVETTE FOUR
THE STRATEGIC CENTRE OF GRAVITY WAS NOT IN FATA WHERE US LAUNCHED 99.99 % OF ITS DRONE STRIKES BUT IN PAKISTANI BALOCHISTAN WHICH US FAILED TO ATTACK AT ALL
Moving beyond attribution to omnichannel optimizationIan Thomas
Performing accurate multichannel digital campaign attribution is very hard. This presentation proposes an optimization-based approach to multichannel digital which focuses on outcomes to drive marketing ROI.
日本デジタルゲーム学会2016年度年次大会で発表した「国際学術出版のプロセス――CFPから出版まで」のスライドです。
The purpose of this presentation is to provide the information about how to submit paper to call for book chapters and publish it. I introduce the actual case to stimulate the offering of Japanese game researches to the world.
MEMORIAS TRABAJOS LIBRES
Conferencia Científica Anual sobre Síndrome Metabólico 2016
Correlación del índice de adiposidad visceral con los datos de distribución corporal obtenidos mediante el sistema de absorciometría de rayos x de energía dual
LN. Martínez Muñoz Ilse Yessabel1, QFB. Correa Padilla Trinidad1, PhD Santillán Benítez Jonnathan Guadalupe3, PhD Camarillo Romero María del Socorro2, Dra. Domínguez Zárate Gemma1, PhD Montenegro Morales Laura Patricia1, PhD Camarillo Romero Eneida del Socorro1, PhD Garduño García José de Jesús1,4
1 Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Cuerpo Académico Salud del Universitario. 2 Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México,
Cuerpo Académico Biomedicina. 3 Facultad de Química de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. 4 Hospital General Regional No. 251 Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social
Advancing Earth Science with Elasticsearch at Terradueterradue
Elastic{ON} User Conference 2017
March 7 - 9, 2017 | San Francisco, CA
https://www.elastic.co/elasticon/conf/2017/sf/agenda?sess=advancing-earth-science-with-elasticsearch-at-terradue
Terradue uses Elasticsearch in conjunction with the Elasticsearch.Net client to tackle scientific challenges in several domains, such as geohazards for rapid response monitoring of volcanoes or earthquakes, hydrology by mapping flood extent, and urban by detecting settlement footprint.
Dis(Empowered) Women: Armenian Women as both Victim and Perpetrator of Sex-se...Gabriel Armas-Cardona
Assessing the complex dynamic that exists between Armenian women and sex-selective policy, and showing that the goal of policy should be to promote the value of girls and not to restrict women's reproductive choices.
One of the goals of this presentation is to challenge the narrative of "women as victims". As an alternative, I use "women as rational actors". This narrative may seem obvious to some but is actually controversial to my target audience.
Presentation audio (in English y español): https://soundcloud.com/user-857728928/dis-empowered-women-armenian-women-as-victim-and-perpetrator-of-sex-selective-abortion
Presentation focuses on the context, intent, content, design, construction, operation, maintenance and advantages of green buildings in reducing consumption of energy and resources and generation of waste to make, human settlements in general and our earth in particular, most livable and sustainable by reducing carbon footprints of built environment.
More than eighty percent of the world’s 500 largest companies established emission reduction or energy-specific targets in the 2014-15 financial year, according to CDP. Clearly, the business community is invested in preventing the adverse consequences of climate change and seizing opportunities in the new low-carbon economy. The next step in protecting that investment is to ensure that greenhouse gas reduction targets are set at the rate consistent with the pace recommended by climate scientists to limit the worst impacts of climate change. Science Based Targets is a joint initiative by CDP, the UN Global Compact (UNGC), the World Resources Institute (WRI) and WWF that raises the ambition of corporate mitigation efforts and drives bolder business solutions by identifying and promoting innovative approaches to corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) target setting.
This slide deck is from a webinar that outlined the Call to Action campaign. To learn more about this initiative and its event calendar, visit www.sciencebasedtargets.org.
Buildings use approximately 40% of the energy in the US. Buzzwords like “going green” and “energy efficient” are more prevalent today. LEED is a rating system, which provides designers the opportunity to tailor their design to reduce the impact on society and the surroundings. It is an integrated process involving the architect, landscape architect, civil engineer, MEP (mechanical, electrical and plumbing) consultant, lighting designer and contractor. As a design team these professionals evaluate energy trade offs within a conceptual design to create a functional building. This session will focus on LEED V4. It will target LEED’s definition, history and categories. More importantly, how to become a LEED accredited professional and LEED’s V4 holistic approach to building design.
The Global Development Lecture Series brings together scholars involved in cutting edge research on international development. It aims to facilitate dialogue and discussion, providing a space for leading development thinkers to share their latest research ideas with Manchester's staff and students.
Extreme naivette of us policy makers about pakistanAgha A
Extreme Naievette of US Policy makers about Pakistan
Major Agha H Amin (Retired)
Senator John Mc Cain , not a very cereberal man , and other amateur cooks and arm chair soldiers , have been passing some extremely naieve statements about US Policy dealing with Pakistan.
Will sum up the fallacies and extreme naievette of US policy makers in few simple headings which will make the discussion brief and precise :--
NAIEVETTE ONE
PAKISTAN DID NOT DEPLOY A SINGLE BATTALION TO INTERDICT 1500 KM OF BORDER THROUGH WHICH AFGHAN TALIBAN REPEATEDLY INFILTRATED TO LAUNCH ATTACKS ON US FORCES LEADING TO 95 % OF US CASUALTIES IN AFGHANISTAN—DESPITE THE FACT THAT PAKISTAN RECEIVED SOME 25 BILLION USD IN AID TO EXACTLY DO THIS TASK.
NAIEVETTE TWO
PAKISTANS SO CALLED MILITARY ACTION IN FATA HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH US OPERATIONS IN AFGHANISTAN.
WHEN US INVADED AFGHANISTAN PAKISTAN WAS ARM TWISTED BY BUSH TO JOIN US COALITION.
THIS PRODUCED A CONFUSION OF PRINCIPLE IN PAKISTAN AS PAKISTANI STATE HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN USING ISLAM TO JUSTIFY PROXY WARS USING ISLAMISTS IN AFGHANISTAN AND OTHER PLACES.
AS A RESULT A LOCAL PAKISTANI ISLAMIST EXTREMIST MOVEMENT KNOWN AS PAKISTANI TALIBAN EMERGED .
THE PAKISTANI OPERATIONS FROM 2001 TO DATE WERE AGAINST THESE PURELY LOCAL MILITANTS WHO HARDLY ATTACKED ANY US FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN AND ATTACKED THE PAKISTANI STATE ONLY AND THAT TOO AFTER 2003 WHEN PAKISTANS MILITARY USURPER MUSHARRAF LAUNCHED A TOTALLY UNPROVOKED ATTACK IN PAKISTANS TRIBAL AREA AS PART OF A DECEPTION PLAN TO DECEIVE US GOVERNMENT WHILE HE SECRETLY PROVIDED SANCTUARY TO 95 % OF AFGHAN TALIBAN IN BALUCHISTAN PROVINCE OF PAKISTAN.
NAIEVETTE THREE
PAKISTANS STRATEGIC INTERESTS IN AFGHANISTAN ARE TOTALLY OPPOSED TO US INTERESTS
PAKISTAN WANTS TO INSTALL A PAKISTANI PROXY GOVERNMENT IN AFGHANISTAN AND IS NOT HAPPY ABOUT US PRESENCE IN AFGHANISTAN SO NO AMOUNT OF US AID WILL CHANGE THIS BASIC STRATEGIC POSITION.
PAKISTAN SEES US PRESENCE IN AFGHANISTAN AS A HANGING STRATEGIC SWORD OF DAMOCLES AGAINST ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAM.
STRATEGICALLY US HAS ALREADY IRREVOCABLY LOST PAKISTAN WHICH IS ON ITS WAY TO BECOMING A CHINES SEMI AUTONOMOUS PROVINCE IN NEXT 15 TO 30 YEARS.
NAIEVETTE FOUR
THE STRATEGIC CENTRE OF GRAVITY WAS NOT IN FATA WHERE US LAUNCHED 99.99 % OF ITS DRONE STRIKES BUT IN PAKISTANI BALOCHISTAN WHICH US FAILED TO ATTACK AT ALL
Moving beyond attribution to omnichannel optimizationIan Thomas
Performing accurate multichannel digital campaign attribution is very hard. This presentation proposes an optimization-based approach to multichannel digital which focuses on outcomes to drive marketing ROI.
日本デジタルゲーム学会2016年度年次大会で発表した「国際学術出版のプロセス――CFPから出版まで」のスライドです。
The purpose of this presentation is to provide the information about how to submit paper to call for book chapters and publish it. I introduce the actual case to stimulate the offering of Japanese game researches to the world.
MEMORIAS TRABAJOS LIBRES
Conferencia Científica Anual sobre Síndrome Metabólico 2016
Correlación del índice de adiposidad visceral con los datos de distribución corporal obtenidos mediante el sistema de absorciometría de rayos x de energía dual
LN. Martínez Muñoz Ilse Yessabel1, QFB. Correa Padilla Trinidad1, PhD Santillán Benítez Jonnathan Guadalupe3, PhD Camarillo Romero María del Socorro2, Dra. Domínguez Zárate Gemma1, PhD Montenegro Morales Laura Patricia1, PhD Camarillo Romero Eneida del Socorro1, PhD Garduño García José de Jesús1,4
1 Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Cuerpo Académico Salud del Universitario. 2 Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México,
Cuerpo Académico Biomedicina. 3 Facultad de Química de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. 4 Hospital General Regional No. 251 Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social
Advancing Earth Science with Elasticsearch at Terradueterradue
Elastic{ON} User Conference 2017
March 7 - 9, 2017 | San Francisco, CA
https://www.elastic.co/elasticon/conf/2017/sf/agenda?sess=advancing-earth-science-with-elasticsearch-at-terradue
Terradue uses Elasticsearch in conjunction with the Elasticsearch.Net client to tackle scientific challenges in several domains, such as geohazards for rapid response monitoring of volcanoes or earthquakes, hydrology by mapping flood extent, and urban by detecting settlement footprint.
Dis(Empowered) Women: Armenian Women as both Victim and Perpetrator of Sex-se...Gabriel Armas-Cardona
Assessing the complex dynamic that exists between Armenian women and sex-selective policy, and showing that the goal of policy should be to promote the value of girls and not to restrict women's reproductive choices.
One of the goals of this presentation is to challenge the narrative of "women as victims". As an alternative, I use "women as rational actors". This narrative may seem obvious to some but is actually controversial to my target audience.
Presentation audio (in English y español): https://soundcloud.com/user-857728928/dis-empowered-women-armenian-women-as-victim-and-perpetrator-of-sex-selective-abortion
La formazione on line? Noiosa, pesante, difficile da far decollare… E se ti dicessimo che con le giuste risorse e metodologie l’eLearning può essere incredibilmente efficace?
Scopri skillaLibrary+: tanti contenuti e strumenti per popolare gli ambienti aziendali di efficaci contenuti formativi per far funzionare l’eLearning. Tutto ciò che serve per ingaggiare e stimolare l’autoformazione. Un aggiornamento continuo per trainer e progettisti.
CONTENUTI:
- Nuovi trend e nuove esigenze della formazione aziendale
- skillaLibrary+. L’innovazione formativa del 2017
- la Library delle Pillole Formative
- Happy Learning: il piacere di far apprendere
Smart Academy: servizi per i formatori
Questi ed altri aspetti sono stati approfonditi nel webinar “skillaLibrary+. Tutto il bello dell’eLearning”. Collegandovi al seguente link, potrete visionare l’abstract video del seminario online:
https://youtu.be/G8weDXWRTlY
“skillaLibrary+. Tutto il bello dell’eLearning”, fa parte di un ciclo di webinar gratuiti organizzati da Amicucci Formazione: un appuntamento al mese per scoprire le soluzioni skilla e le metodologie più efficaci per innovare la formazione. Cliccando di seguito potrete scaricare il programma ed iscrivervi: http://www.amicucciformazione.com/comunicazione/webinar2017/programma.pdf
Spiraling up and down: Mapping rural women's empowerment in EthiopiaCGIAR
This presentation was given by Annet Mulema (ILRI), as part of the Annual Gender Scientific Conference hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 25-27 September 2018 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and co-organized with KIT Royal Tropical Institute.
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-conference-2018/
Presentation on Mapping rural women's empowerment in Ethiopia ckmtraining
Presented by Annet Mulema at the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research Second Annual Scientific Conference, ILRI, Addis Ababa, 25-28 September 2018
Social protection, agriculture and the From Protection to Production projectFAO
http://www.fao.org/economic/PtoP/en/
Presented during the From Protection to Production project workshop, 24-25 September 2013, FAO HQ.
The From Protection to Production (PtoP) project is a multi-country impact evaluation of cash transfers in sub-Saharan Africa. The project is a collaborative effort between the FAO, the UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office and the governments of Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Project activities are mainly funded by the Regular Fund, the DFID Research and Evidence Division and the EU.
Social Protection and Agriculture for Food Security: Breaking the Cycle of Po...Pascal Corbé
Benjamin Davis, Strategic Programme Leader, Rural Poverty Reduction at FAO, presents at GIZ workshop "Agriculture Meets Social Protection: How can food and nutrition security benefit?", Eschborn, 7 July 2016
Treatise and praxis linking social ingenuity and institutional innovations in...Costy Costantinos
This inter-disciplinary research analyses critically the discourse on people-driven institutional and social innovations in institutionalizing social ingenuity and elevate this to a higher paradigm of linking the innovations at grassroots level to national policies and praxis.
Presentation talks about the consumer of rural India, facts and figure of rural India, their buying behavior, and also factors affecting decision making process and many more.
RIZQ is a non profit organization started by a bunch of university students from LUMS.
You can contact me on Gmai
bilal.professional786@gmail.com
You can also contact me on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/bilalbakhtawar
‘Nothing for Us Without Us’ - Towards an economic justice framework for Susta...UNDP Policy Centre
Presentation delivered by Masego Madzwamuse (OSISA) at the Rio+20 side event on the role of civil society and knowledge institutions in sustainable development: http://www.ipc-undp.org/PageNewSiteb.do?id=274&active=2
sociocultural context of health and health care delivery 2017Chantal Settley
South African population features:
• Population and demography (definitions): fertility, mortality, migration, birthrate, death rate, immigration rate, infant mortality rate, life expectancy –pg 31-32 in Pretoruis.
• 2 main factors that shape death rates and life expectancy.
Race & Ethnicity:
• Definitions
• Prejudice and discrimination- pg 50 in Pretoruis.
• Strategies for working with diverse clients- pg 52-53 in Pretoruis.
Age:
• Ageism- pg 58 in Pretoruis.
• Problems in inter-age interaction and how these manifest in health care- 58 in Pretoruis.
• Adhering to principles- pg 59 in Pretoruis
Disability:
• Medical model- pg 61 in Pretoruis
• Social model- pg 63 in Pretoruis
• Definitions of disability and stigma- pg 64 in Pretoruis.
• Strategies detrimental to patients who are disabled- pg 66 in Pretoruis + students to read through ‘preferred terminology’- pg 67 in Pretoruis
Gender:
• Gender socialization- pg 69 in Pretoruis
• Defining ‘gender’- pg 70 in Pretoruis
• The gender experience of health, illness and health care: Gender differences in respect of understanding and experiencing sickness and disease- pg 71 in Pretoruis, Gender differences in respect of morbidity and mortality- pg 71 in Pretoruis
• Maternal health and reproductive health (MDG’s) + causes- pg 73 in Pretoruis
Similar to Wealth Creation Strategies for the Poor: An African Perspective (20)
In this presentation Dale Whittington and Kerry Smith explore the history of the ex-ante economic analysis of large dams through the discussion of six key developments that have occurred since the 1950s:
- adding systems analysis
- incorporating multiple objectives
- incorporating environment and social losses
- incorporating economy-wide linkages
- modelling non-cooperative behaviour
- dealing with uncertainty.
Current best practice in the application of ex ante economic analysis tries to address a subset of these developments, but there are no case studies or guidelines that an analyst can reference to learn how best to incorporate all six developments in the ex-ante appraisal of a new dam. We conclude that current professional practice in the ex-ante assessment of large dams has not yet caught up with the scholarly literature on these six developments and highlight the need for a new era of engagement by scholars and practitioners on this “old” challenging problem.
Related Research:
FutureDAMS working paper 'The ex-ante economic analysis of investments in large dams: a brief history' available at FutureDAMS.org/publications
Professor Aung Ze Ya’s presentation gives an introduction to FutureDAMS, the project’s work in Myanmar and the challenges of the region. HIC training January 2020.
The Global Development Institute Lecture Series is pleased to present Dr Emma Mawdsley, Reader in Human Geography and Fellow of Newnham College to discuss "The Southernisation of Development? Who has 'socialised' who in the new millennium?"
A more polycentric global development landscape has emerged over the past decade or so, rupturing the formerly dominant North-South axis of power and knowledge. This can be traced through more diversified development norms, institutions, imaginaries and actors. This paper looks at one trend within this turbulent field: namely, the ways in which ‘Northern’ donors appear to be increasingly adopting some of the narratives and practices associated with ‘Southern’ development partners. This direction of travel stands in sharp contrast to expectations in the early new millennium that the (so-called) ‘traditional’ donors would ‘socialise’ the ‘rising powers’ to become ‘responsible donors’. After outlining important caveats about using such cardinal terms, the paper explores three aspects of this ‘North’ to ‘South’ movement. These are (a) the stronger and more explicit claim to ‘win-win’ development ethics and outcomes; (b) the (re)turn from ‘poverty reduction’ to ‘economic growth’ growth as the central analytic of development; and related to both, the explicit and deepening blurring and blending of development finances and agendas with trade and investment.
Zimbabwe’s recent history has been shaped by battles about who speaks for the nation, one fought out in struggles for control of political institutions, the media, and civil society. Sara Rich Dorman will examine the interactions of social groups — churches, NGOs, and political parties — from the liberation struggle, through the independence decades, as they engaged the state and ruling party and track how the relationship between Mugabe’s ruling party and activists was determined by the liberation struggle. She will discuss how both structural and direct violence were deployed by the regime, but also how ad-hoc and unplanned many of their interventions really were.
The Future Dams Research Consortium (originally known as DAMS 2.0) hosted a public lecture by Prof Michael Hanemann of Arizona State University on the economics of water.
The lecture discussed ‘why the economics of water is so hard’ providing a historical and contemporary US overview of the issues that make water challenging to price.
As part of the Global Development Institute Lecture Series and in collaboration with the Post-Crash Economics Society Dr Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge, delivered a lecture entitled: Are some countries destined for under-development?
As part of the Global Development Institute Lecture Series Dr Irene Guijt, Head of Research at Oxfam GB, delivered a lecture entitled: Evidence for Influencing: Balancing research integrity and campaign strategy in Oxfam
When using evidence to influence, what compromises have to be made in different contexts due to practical, political and strategic reasons?
Dr Guijt presents on challenges and successes, using examples of Oxfam research and campaign strategies from across the world.
As part of the Global Development Institute Lecture Series Prof AbdouMaliq Simone discusses collective operations in urban settings.
Despite a flood of knowledge, urban residents increasingly do not know where they are. It’s not a matter of geographical illiteracy or social confusion. Rather, the complexities of urban environments mean that a kind of darkness prevails, with residents unable to come up with a coherent working narrative for their feelings and situations.
Prof Simone will explore the ways in which residents, particularly in Jakarta and Hyderabad, deal with this darkness, where countervailing realities all seem to be equally possible; where the haphazard and brazenly opportunistic expansions of built environments reaffirm or cultivate interiors of care, of people looking out for each other.
Addressing shelter inequalities: Lessons from urban India
"Housing in the Global South faces a number of challenges, including poor construction quality, citizen exclusion, and (in)appropriate standards, leading to significant inequalities.
What lessons emerge for tackling urban shelter inequalities from experiences in the Global South? Prof Mitlin will share findings from research in India where civil society organisations have been working with municipal and state governments to address housing needs through innovation."
The Global Development Lecture Series brings experts involved in global development to The University of Manchester. It aims to facilitate dialogue and discussion, providing a space for leading development thinkers to share their latest research and ideas.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
This session provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (commonly known as the Uniform Guidance) outlined in the 2 CFR 200.
With a focus on the 2024 revisions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), participants will gain insight into the key changes affecting federal grant recipients. The session will delve into critical regulatory updates, providing attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate and comply with the evolving landscape of federal grant management.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rationale behind the 2024 updates to the Uniform Guidance outlined in 2 CFR 200, and their implications for federal grant recipients.
- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
- Gain proficiency in applying the updated regulations to ensure compliance with federal grant requirements and avoid potential audit findings.
- Develop strategies for effectively implementing the new guidelines within the grant management processes of their respective organizations, fostering efficiency and accountability in federal grant administration.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Up the Ratios Bylaws - a Comprehensive Process of Our Organizationuptheratios
Up the Ratios is a non-profit organization dedicated to bridging the gap in STEM education for underprivileged students by providing free, high-quality learning opportunities in robotics and other STEM fields. Our mission is to empower the next generation of innovators, thinkers, and problem-solvers by offering a range of educational programs that foster curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking.
At Up the Ratios, we believe that every student, regardless of their socio-economic background, should have access to the tools and knowledge needed to succeed in today's technology-driven world. To achieve this, we host a variety of free classes, workshops, summer camps, and live lectures tailored to students from underserved communities. Our programs are designed to be engaging and hands-on, allowing students to explore the exciting world of robotics and STEM through practical, real-world applications.
Our free classes cover fundamental concepts in robotics, coding, and engineering, providing students with a strong foundation in these critical areas. Through our interactive workshops, students can dive deeper into specific topics, working on projects that challenge them to apply what they've learned and think creatively. Our summer camps offer an immersive experience where students can collaborate on larger projects, develop their teamwork skills, and gain confidence in their abilities.
In addition to our local programs, Up the Ratios is committed to making a global impact. We take donations of new and gently used robotics parts, which we then distribute to students and educational institutions in other countries. These donations help ensure that young learners worldwide have the resources they need to explore and excel in STEM fields. By supporting education in this way, we aim to nurture a global community of future leaders and innovators.
Our live lectures feature guest speakers from various STEM disciplines, including engineers, scientists, and industry professionals who share their knowledge and experiences with our students. These lectures provide valuable insights into potential career paths and inspire students to pursue their passions in STEM.
Up the Ratios relies on the generosity of donors and volunteers to continue our work. Contributions of time, expertise, and financial support are crucial to sustaining our programs and expanding our reach. Whether you're an individual passionate about education, a professional in the STEM field, or a company looking to give back to the community, there are many ways to get involved and make a difference.
We are proud of the positive impact we've had on the lives of countless students, many of whom have gone on to pursue higher education and careers in STEM. By providing these young minds with the tools and opportunities they need to succeed, we are not only changing their futures but also contributing to the advancement of technology and innovation on a broader scale.
Russian anarchist and anti-war movement in the third year of full-scale warAntti Rautiainen
Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact to change the course of events yet. Cases of anarchists repressed for anti-war activities are presented, as well as strategies of support for political prisoners, and modest successes in supporting their struggles.
Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
Links:
Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
http://Avtonom.org/abc
Solidarity Zone
https://t.me/solidarity_zone
Memorial
https://memopzk.org/, https://t.me/pzk_memorial
OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c5nSOdU48O8
Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/libertarianlifecoach/episodes/Russian-anarchist-and-anti-war-movement-in-the-third-year-of-full-scale-war-e2k8ai4
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Canadian Immigration Tracker March 2024 - Key SlidesAndrew Griffith
Highlights
Permanent Residents decrease along with percentage of TR2PR decline to 52 percent of all Permanent Residents.
March asylum claim data not issued as of May 27 (unusually late). Irregular arrivals remain very small.
Study permit applications experiencing sharp decrease as a result of announced caps over 50 percent compared to February.
Citizenship numbers remain stable.
Slide 3 has the overall numbers and change.
Wealth Creation Strategies for the Poor: An African Perspective
1. Wealth
Creation
Strategies for
the Poor:
An African Perspective
Mandivamba Rukuni
Director, Wisdom Afrika Leadership Academy
Keynote address at the Round Table
Conference on “Post-Crisis Zimbabwe:
Towards Poverty Focused Reconstruction
and Development” Organized by the
Brooks World Poverty Institute Manchester
University & University of Zimbabwe
Held at the Wild Geese Lodge. 25-26 August
2009. Harare. Zimbabwe
2. THE GENERAL THEORY ON AN
AFRIKAN RENAISSANCE
Defining the Problem
• Afrikan society declining in all major areas:
– Culture and Social life; Economics and Business; and Politics and
Governance
• What is the highest order causal problem?
– No CULTURAL FOUNDATION to Modernization Strategies
– Foundation was STRONG FAMILIES and STRONG COMMUNITIES
– LACK OF CONFIDENCE!!
• The 3 major corrosive agents on Afrikan
Culture & Confidence are:
– Organized Politics; Formal Education; Organized Religions
3. THE GENERAL THEORY ON AN
AFRIKAN RENAISSANCE
Defining the Solution
• BE AFRIKAN -- Cultural renaissance for
advancement of Afrikan Society
• Rebuild Strong Families and Strong
Communities
• MODERNIZE not WESTERNIZE
• Propel Afrikans, and Afrikan culture into
global impact
• Apply Afrikan Philosophies and Values
locally globally in the 21st Century
4. The Zimbabwe I want
• Culture
– Belief in education (quality and relevance)
– Hard work
– Saving and investment
– Collective responsibility
– Peace loving
• Society
– Strong families (looking after own orphans and
elderly)
– Strong communities (capable of addressing most
local issues)
5. The Zimbabwe I want
• Business/Economics
– Small/medium family farms and businesses
– Small firms aggregating into large industries
– Heritage products
• Politics/Governance
– Highly decentralised
– Constitution clear on party values code of
conduct
– Role to strengthen families and communities
6. What is poverty?
• Physical poverty –
– rely on things you do not produce
– produce things you do not rely on
– You are eroding your asset base
• Intellectual poverty – You do not
value nor leverage your own knowledge
• Spiritual poverty – reduced sense of
identity, belonging and self-worth
7. Poverty is a lack of access to
power
Sources of Power
• Violence
• Organised ideology- politics, religion
• Money
• Knowledge
• Love
8. Post-Conflict Zimbabwe
• Global Political Agreement (GPA)
– Western paradigm- dysfunctional relationship
– Afrikan paradigm- crafting a robust relationship
• Government of National Unity (GNU)
– Short Term Emergency Recovery Program
(STERP)
– Government Clusters (Economic, Infrastructure,
Social, Rights & Interests; Security)
• From STERP to Medium Term Planning
9. Post Conflict Zimbabwe
the burning issues
• National healing
– Framework
– Forgiveness versus truth
• Constitution
– Process
– content
• Land
– Audit, Tenure, compensation
10. Food Security
• Poverty is the major cause of food insecurity;
hunger; and malnutrition.
– major contributor to escalating land conflicts in Africa
– as well as environmental degradation.
• Economic development- long term solution to
poverty
– But food insecurity in the short term, governments have to
provide safety nets for the vulnerable groups.
• Zimbabwe needs to be food secure at three levels:
– household level; national level; and regional level.
– Food security defined as a balance between food
availability on one hand and access to food on the other.
11. Zimbabwe needs a comprehensive
food security policy and strategy
• Food Availability Strategies:
– production;
– storage;
– Imports; and
– appropriate food aid
• Food access strategies should include:
– Livelihood strategies -capacity of poor to grow or purchase own
food;
– income generating activities;
– food transfer programmes to vulnerable groups
• (e.g. supplemental feeding of school children and pregnant women at
clinics);
– public works programmes such as food for work programmes.
12. Agricultural Renaissance
• Economic growth- preceded/accompanied by solid
agricultural growth.
• Paves way for broad-based economic development
• Zimbabwe cannot jump this stage of development
• As economy develops role of agriculture evolves
– But continues to be important and backbone at every stage
• Quality of life depends on forms of agriculture
– healthy nutrition, clean air and water, protection of nature.
13. Role of agriculture in Economic
Development
• Adequate & affordable food for increasing
populations.
• Supply raw materials to growing and
diversifying domestic industrial sectors.
• Releasing labor for the growing industrial
sector.
• Enlarging the size of an effective market for
the products
• Providing employment and livelihoods
• Domestic savings for investment and capital
formation.
14. Sustainable Rural development
• Premature Rural to Urban migration Most have no
– Jobs; housing; life and economic skills to be gainfully employed in urban areas.
• Urban poverty and decay increases:
– as the over-stretched infrastructure breeds ill health, crime and breakdown of
family structures.
• Young adults migrate, draining rural areas of energy and creative
force
• Majority rural but political power urban
• This rural-urban crisis decays both rural and urban areas
• Rural development in Africa requires investing in people where they
are
– so that rural families and communities are part of the mainstream economy and
enlightened society.
16. Social Capital
Invest directly into people
• Rural institutions and structures
– leadership and governance;
– active and responsive citizens
– Invest in people directly holistic and integrated education and public
health.
• social and cultural investments –building self-confidence & life
skills
• The Poor have to believe-
– once again that they are the architects of their own history.
– as their ancestors before them, that they need not wait for Governments
and Donors to save them from poverty, but that change will start with
them.
– Any Poverty-reduction strategy has to be built on this belief.
• All poverty programs have to answer one over-arching question:
“How does this project build on the capacity and confidence of
these poor people?”
17. CHARACTERISTICS OF SUCCESSFUL
PEOPLE AND SOCIETIES
• High levels of CONFIDENCE
– Strong cultural and family background
– Self-belief and self-reliance
– Stamina
• BOLDNESS
• They can take calculated risks
• They do not hesitate
• High levels of SAVINGS and INVESTMENT
• AMBITION
– Set themselves high targets
– Think big, Think positive
• LEARN fast!!
– Challenge themselves
– Have fun
• A degree of CALLOUSNESS and/or RUTHLESSNESS
18. How do you create wealth?
• Add value – to what you have or what
you produce
• Get your assets to work for you
19. Wealth creating strategies at
community level
• Build physical and biological assets
(ABCD)
– Improved quality of trees, herbs, animals etc.,
– roads, wells, grain bins, improved houses
• Circulate local products and services
– Family businesses
– Use extended family as business model
– local exchange of goods and services
20. Wealth creation strategies at
community level-- cont
• Refuse to be a dog
– Start own business, projects
– Do not work for someone else after a certain age
• Bequeath life and survival skills to your
children
– Food production and preservation
– Home improvement
– Project management
• Transmute problems and challenges to
business opportunities
– Cultural industries and cottage industries most
lucrative business in future
21. Wealth creation strategies at
community level-- cont
• Family and community food security
– Availability of food determines ability to
create new wealth
– Develop practical and holistic strategies
– Harvest and/or sell some product at each
period in the year (as opposed to feast to
famine syndrome)
22. Modernize and secure traditional
land tenure rights:
Basket of Rights
• Use
• Transfer
• Exclude/include
• enforce
23. Self-drive mindset-
The sustainable answer to poverty
• Model tested in Botswana, Lesotho,
Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa,
Swaziland, and Zimbabwe
• In Zimbabwe tested in two sites:
– Mhakwe Ward in Chimanimani
– Masendu Ward in Bulilima
24. Self-drive mindset:
enables both individuals and communities to
• Find answers that lie from within
• Generate own plans and visions that
articulate an attractive future.
• Self-organize to accomplish these plans
and vision.
• Demonstrate the confidence to hold their
own in interactions with peers and the
powerful.
25. Self-drive mindset:
enables both individuals and communities to
• Ability to recognize and use opportunity
and manage conflict and change.
• Change in self-understanding.
• Ability to initiate changes in deep-rooted
traditional practices and beliefs.
• Ability to question and interrogate
26. Self drive mindset
• Individuals and communities develop their
capacity for “self drive” and civic participation
– taking initiative and engaging with outsiders.
– believe in themselves & their ability to shape the future
– driven by their own aspirations.
• They learn to think and act
– In integrative manner at local level
– in different, shared, aligned and comprehensive ways.
• These behaviors become reinforced as their
actions create positive results.
27. 3 levels of applying knowledge for
transformation
• Level 1 - Improvement Change
• Level 2 - Intelligent Copying and
Borrowing Change
• Level 3 - Self-Drive Mindset Change
28. Level 1 - Improvement Change
development of African rural communities by:
• Upgrading what they have indigenous and
local systems
• Introducing grassroots community projects
designed to achieve high impact and
diffusion.
• Moving them to recognise and learn from
their known achievements.
29. Level 2 –Change through Intelligent
Copying and Borrowing
• Copying and borrowing from elsewhere
what is useful to their communities
• Benchmarking to ensure intelligent
borrowing from global systems, e.g.
benchmarking best practices
30. Level 3 - Self-Drive Mindset
Change
• This level entails a paradigm shift for rural
communities
• Courage to leap from the known into the
discomfort of the unknown future
• The ability to see the world anew, so as to
develop creative and innovative solutions
31. Level 3 - Self-Drive Mindset
CONT’
• The self-confidence and reflection to accelerate
the development of African communities
• The ability to develop revolutionary break
through ideas on development challenges
• The ability to improvise and experiment with new
development ideas to re-write the rules of
human progress, thereby creating a new self-drive
mindset/worldview
32. THE KNOWLEDGE GAP IN AFRICA
• Africans no longer value own knowledge
– Knowledge substantial, but not explicit nor
propagated widely. Therefore African knowledge
not sufficiently recognized and valued at home or
globally.
• Conspiracy of Silence
– indigenous and local people require a certain level of
trust before sharing their knowledge
• Power relationships
– which are part of the struggle for development, can
be changed by individuals and communities valuing
their own knowledge and that of others.
33. Knowledge gap’
• Development knowledge remains oral
– remains informal, and insufficiently
disseminated. As a consequence the voice and
perspective of rural communities is insufficiently
included in policymaking and planning.
• African communities need to be more
strategic
– in making use of other systematic knowledge in
order to compare, combine, and advance ideas.
34. Feminine leadership is the highest
form of leadership
• Women have more Wisdom, Spirit,
Courage
• Women are the original educators &
spiritual leaders
• Women rely on deeper forms of power
– Knowledge
– Love
• The humblest are ultimately the strongest
35. How can Afrikan universities reinvent self? - some
insights to keep in mind..
• Small Family businesses is the way
forward
• We need a rural middle class majority not
urban working class majority
• We have to re-invent rural family
education:
– culture, language, religion, business, politics
and governance, etc
• We have to re-build self-drive and self-confidence
back into the rural Afrikans
36. Need for alternative education
• Formal education systems not relevant to
society challenges and needs
• Irrelevant to ordinary peoples’ day to day
lives.
• Holistic education is basically family and
community education
• To develop the whole human being
throughout their life.
37. Barefoot ‘holistic’ education
• Builds a person who is consciously and
proudly Afrikan yet worldly.
• Focus on current society’s realities, and
engage with the desirable Afrikan society.
• Priority on individual, family, community.
• Learning becomes, once more, a way of life.
• learners lead a purposeful life all the time.
38. Holistic ‘barefoot’ education
• Learning to be human
• Learning to belong
• Learning to know and learning how to learn
• Learning to do
• Learning to live together
• Learning to create, recreate and to transform
• Learning to connect, interconnect
• Leads to: peace; prosperity; freedom;
happiness; and love
39. Barefoot “holistic” education
• The Model aims at modernizing Afrika, not
Westernizing Afrika.
• The primary ingredient for successful
learning is rebuilding self-confidence of
Afrikans–
• Confidence in their culture, historical
heritage, as well as valuing their traditional
knowledge.
40. Barefoot education–
need for alternative education given the limitations of formal education
• Education for self discovery and self
employment.
• Great employees because they are
educated to;
– keep a positive attitude in life, and to be
higher achievers, problem solvers, and
generally self-motivated.
41. Transforming Afrikan society from roots up
Foundation curriculum: Learn how to:
• self-organize;
• mobilize self and others;
• create social capital;
• create wealth;
• Self-start, self-assess, self-correct;
• articulate; communicate, dialogue;
negotiate;
• resolve conflicts; interrogate issues;
• challenge convention when necessary;
42. Transforming Afrikan society from roots
up Foundation curriculum: Learn how to:
• engage others;
• borrow knowledge and ideas intelligently;
• run and organize own affairs;
• manage family affairs;
• manage community affairs;
• be an effective community, national and
global citizen; and
• work with and appreciate other cultures.
43. Barefoot education is about
CULTURAL REVIVAL FOR AFRICA’S RENEWAL
• Culture is way of life with its beliefs,
customs, and accepted ways of relating
and working with others.
• So development is really about re-crafting
culture to meet evolving needs and
challenges.
• That is why there is need for cultural
revival before we can achieve Afrika’s
renewal in a sustainable way.
44. Barefoot education is a radical and
revolutionary
• Restoring learning as a cultural
process, learning as a way of life.
• Restore learning in mother tongue.
• No formal entry qualifications
45. Barefoot education is about
commitment
• Learners play major role in their learning
processes.
• Learners expected to give back to their
families and communities.
• They undertake several family and
community projects.
• They also offer free time to help others in
the family and community
46. African Dilemma
• Does democracy lead to development?
• Or does development lead to democracy?
• What is the relationship between the two?
• Sacredness of property rights and free
enterprise wont automatically function for
democracy where majority do not have any
property to defend
• So the question for Africa has always been:
After attaining political freedom– how
do you convert this to economic
freedom for our people?
47. The African Legacy
• Africa will rebuild its society on the basis of its historical
strength and reliance on family and community structures.
• Rural economic development will ultimately depend on strong
and effective rural institutions and empowered communities.
• Issues of agriculture and natural resource management,
therefore, are to be more firmly integrated into issues of
politics, democracy, and good governance.
• Agricultural growth and the efficient management of natural
resources depend on the political, legal and administrative
capabilities of rural communities to determine their own future.
• Restoration of this power (participatory democracy) is
translated into secure land rights, efficiently managed
common property and resources, empowered rural people,
particularly women, and strengthened rural economic
institutions.
48. The African Dream
• All Africans deserve to live in a country where there is
abundant and affordable food, and that each African family
has a home.
• These two components of the African Dream are a critical part
of any African country’s comprehensive land reform policy.
• The practical implications of this is first that the policy has to
be clear about how to attain food security and economic
security by giving priority land access to the appropriate
percentage of landholders who will deliver the economic part
of the dream.
• Second is for the policy to have clear guidelines as to how the
rest of citizens will access much smaller pieces of land for
homes, both in urban and rural areas.
• This policy element should account for rural and urban
landless and homeless; or potential landless and homeless.
49. Going back in order to move
forward
• Our ancestors were smarter than us
• We are here to make new history
50. Modernize NOT Westernize
• You are all you have
• Answers lie from within
• The only truth is one you discover for
yourself
• These are the highest values that create
wealth