Institute for African Development
Africa’s Industrialization Prospects: Structural Transformation, Covid-19 Impact and the Debate on Sustainability
October 1, 2020
3:00 pm
Issues in African Development Special Topic Seminar Series (CRP 4770/6770) - Fall 2020 Theme: Environment, Sustainability and Health Challenges in Africa: Managing Human-Nature Interactions. Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each semester. The seminars provide a forum for participants to explore alternative perspectives and exchange ideas. They are also a focal activity for students and faculty interested in African development. In addition, prepares students for higher level courses on African economic, social and political development. The presentations are designed for students who are interested in development, Africa’s place in global studies, want to know about the peoples, cultures and societies that call Africa home, and explore development theories and alternate viewpoints on development.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for African Development Special Topic Seminar Series: Politicized Finance in the Black Americas
September 24, 2020
3:00 pm
Issues in African Development Special Topic Seminar Series (CRP 4770/6770) - Fall 2020 Theme: Environment, Sustainability and Health Challenges in Africa: Managing Human-Nature Interactions. Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each semester. The seminars provide a forum for participants to explore alternative perspectives and exchange ideas. They are also a focal activity for students and faculty interested in African development. In addition, prepares students for higher level courses on African economic, social and political development. The presentations are designed for students who are interested in development, Africa’s place in global studies, want to know about the peoples, cultures and societies that call Africa home, and explore development theories and alternate viewpoints on development.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
Edward Mabaya
Senior Research Associate
Ed Mabaya is a scholar and a development practitioner with more than two decades of experience working on development, agribusiness value chains and food security issues with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. He is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Global Development where his teaching, research and outreach work focuses on economic development in Africa.
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Role
- Faculty
- IAD Core Faculty
- IAD Advisory Council
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Email: em37@cornell.edu
Phone: (607) 280-0264
Institute for African Development Special Topic Seminar Series: Contested Landscape in Northern Tanzania
September 17, 2020
3:00 pm
Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each semester. The seminars provide a forum for participants to explore alternative perspectives and exchange ideas. They are also a focal activity for students and faculty interested in African development. In addition, prepares students for higher level courses on African economic, social and political development. The presentations are designed for students who are interested in development, Africa’s place in global studies, want to know about the peoples, cultures and societies that call Africa home, and explore development theories and alternate viewpoints on development. Registration link: https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqdOyoqT0pG9QC0pd0ChnnelzXjM…
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
10 Reasons Why Anti-Racism Training Is Not The Problem
Institute for African Development Faculty Ifeoma Ajunwa, associate professor in the ILR School, writes this opinion piece about why organizational antiracist training programs may fail and what organizations can do better.
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IAD Summer Intern Research gets Published
“Disillusionment and Fear: The Impact of Zambia’s Religio-Political Climate on Sexual and Reproductive Health Organizations”
Margaret Anderson has had her internship research paper “Disillusionment and Fear: The Impact of Zambia’s Religio-Political Climate on Sexual and Reproductive Health Organizations” published in the latest peer-reviewed issue of the Southern African Journal of Policy and Development, Volume 5, Number 1.
“Various trends affect the operations of civil society organizations related to sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRH) in Zambia. Firstly, there is a dramatic unmet need for SRH services, and organizations are scrambling to meet this need in the face of many barriers. This is coinciding with increasing political repression on civil society, especially targeting civil society organizations (CSO) with politically sensitive underpinnings. A Christian demographic and institutional revival is reshaping the social and moral framework of the Republic.
This research investigates the context of SRH organizations in Zambia and assesses how organizations related to SRH are impacted by the religious-political environment. Results were found through a literature review and semi-structured interviews in Lusaka, Zambia with stakeholders relevant to this issue. It was found that the work of SRH CSOs is implicitly controlled by both the government and religious institutions through legal and extra-legal measures. As a result of this context, the study found changes in CSO issue focus, CSO relationships and attitudes toward the government, and CSO operational security and sustainability. By controlling public spaces and obstructing freedom of assembly and expression, the state is obstructing the Zambian people’s access to healthcare. A key finding is that as undemocratic as the current regime’s actions are, more detrimental to the Zambian health sector than government repression may be how CSOs are responding to it. Organizations are responding with disillusionment and aversion to political engagement as a result of shrinking political space, Christianity, and the invasive stigmas of SRH work in Zambia.”
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Institute for African Development Special Topic Seminar Series:Environment, Sustainability and Health Challenges in Africa: Managing Human-Nature Interactions
September 10, 2020
3:00 pm
Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each semester. The seminars provide a forum for participants to explore alternative perspectives and exchange ideas. They are also a focal activity for students and faculty interested in African development. In addition, it will prepare students for higher level courses on African economic, social and political development. The presentations are designed for students who are interested in the Africa and development, and Africa’s place in global studies, want to know about the peoples, cultures and societies that call Africa home, and explore development theories and alternate viewpoints on development.
Register in advance: https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctcO6trj0iHdIc7M96Z5RtNGSfwL…
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
Cornell International Fair
September 8, 2020
12:00 pm
The annual International Fair showcases Cornell's global opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Explore our virtual fair on September 8 and find out about international majors and minors, language study, fellowships, internships, study abroad, exchanges, service learning, and more.
The International Fair is sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the Office of Global Learning (both part of Global Cornell), and Cornell's Language Resource Center. The Fair will be held as a virtual event via Zoom, with each virtual table set up as a Zoom meeting. Register now to receive an e-mail containing links/access information for all virtual tables. During the event, you will be able to come and go from each table at any point (to join a new table, close out of your current table and then click the link for the table you wish to join).
If you are not able to join the event synchronously, the confirmation e-mail will also contain contact information for all participating units. Video clips and other resources will be available after the fair.
International Fair participating units and schedule
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
IAD Webinar: Impact and Management Strategies of COVID-19 in Africa: Current and Forward-looking Educational Policies and Practices
Thursday, August 20, 2020 * 9:00am (EST) *
The webinar will focus on the impact and strategies of managing the pandemic to date and policies for the future. How did the African countries respond initially when the pandemic first struck and what are the plans for the next academic year? Will the school system revert to face to face pedagogy, adopt a hybrid mode of instruction, or pivot to remote learning? What are the mechanisms and best practices being implemented? Overall, how have teaching and learning been impacted by the pandemic? What are the long-term consequences? How can African countries mitigate the negative effects at all the levels of their systems of education?
Panelists
- Folasade Adefisayo is the Principal Consultant/CEO of Leading Learning Limited, an educational consultancy incorporated in 2014. Since she started her own consulting practice, she has consulted for public and private schools, state governments, NGO’s and development partners. Her areas of professional focus include teacher training, leadership training, school set-up and schools’ transformation.
- Kabiru Kinyanjui is an International Development Consultant. He served as Chairman of the Kenya Public Universities Inspection Board which was instrumental in preparation policy report to guide the transformation of higher education in the country. Professor Kinyanjui recently coordinated studies on Theme 3 of the 2008 Biennale of the Association for Development Education in Africa (ADEA) on the Development of Knowledge Workers in Africa.
- Malak Zaalouk is professor of practice and the director of Graduate School of Educations (GSE) Middle East Institute of Higher Education. She previously served as UNICEF Regional Senior Education Adviser for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
- Moeketsi Letseka is the holder of the UNESCO Chair on ODL at Unisa. He is a professor of philosophy of education and Editor-in-Chief of Africa Education Review. He is also the Chairperson of the Finance Standing Committee of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), and a member of the council of Da Vinci of Technology Management, Modderfontein, Lethabong, Johannesburg.
Moderator
N’Dri Assié-Lumumba is a Professor of African and African Diaspora education, Comparative and International education, Social institutions, African social history, and the study of Gender, Cornell University. She is also the Director of Cornell Institute for African Development.
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He Doesn’t Mind Being Shared, Unless His Mates Try to Eat Each Other’s Eggs
Kelly Zamudio, IAD faculty and an author on the study, says, “it’s better to be a secondary, or even the third, female in a group" when mating with the rule-breaking Thoropa taophora river frog.