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Interview with former MADM Student

Callistus A. Agbaam who graduated from the MA in Development Management and is now working for an environmental education project has been interviewed by the Alumni office of Ruhr University Bochum/Germany.

See http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/alumni/alumni-interviews/agbaam.html for the full interview.

Congratulations Dr. Lombe!

DAAD Student Felix Lombe from Malawi has been awarded the degree of a Doctor (Ph.D.).in Development Studies. He received a DAAD-funded scholarship of the Development Research Division of the South African-German Centre for Development Research and Criminal Justice for his doctoral studies.

Dr. Lombe

His thesis, "The Quest for a Development State in Malawi: A Developmental Social Policy Framework", was supervised by Prof. J. Adesina.

Development Management in Practice: Master Students Reaching Out to South African Township Community

Thirteen Master students of the Bochum Program of Development Management at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa recently started to work together with the Iliso Care Society (ICS), a non-profit organization supporting various community development activities in the township of Khayelitsha near Cape Town. As part of a course module on "Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation," the students from Botswana, Ethiopia, Germany, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Portugal, Zambia and Zimbabwe conducted practical planning exercises to support two on-going programs of the Iliso Care Society, namely the Iliso Youth Choir and the Iliso Feeding Scheme. Beyond the one-off planning exercise, the majority of the Master students have pledged their longer-term commitment to support the Iliso volunteers by sharing their experience and academic knowledge.

MADM students and Iliso staff