Call for Applications - 2nd Alumni Conference of all DAAD Centres of African Excellence

The second Alumni Conference of the DAAD African Excellence Centres will take place in Accra, Ghana, from 6th - 9th November 2018.

The Call for applications with the deadline 6th July 2018 can be found here.

Congratulations to Faustine Wabwire

Our former DAAD scholar Faustine Wabwire will be the Senior Manger for Policy and Congressional Engagement with "Management Sciences for Health" and will so lead the organization's global health policy agenda and serve as well a the liaison with US Congress, donor countries and partner countries and the business community! She is based in Washington DC.

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Dr. Davison Muchadenyika

Our former DAAD scholar Dr. Davison Muchadenyika was accepted in the Young Professionals Program of the World Bank and will work as Urban Specialist in Washington DC from September on.

Congratulations!

6 new scholarship holders at the SA-GER CDR

6 new scholarship holders commenced their studies at the South African-German Centre for Development Research.

While Abioseh Bockarie and Phoene Oware were admitted to the PhD in Development Studies, Stanley Egenti, Xego Kumbula and Melisa Dlamini started with the Master in Development Studies and Langton Moyo with the Master in Public Administration.

(from left: Bockarie, Dlamini, Kumbula, Egenti, Oware and Moyo)

Welcome to the Centre!

New Publication of CDR Member

Samson Osei, PhD candidate at CDR, published a paper in the Africa Development Bank Evaluation Matters Magazine, titled "Value Addition of Organisational Evaluation".
Basically, the paper argues that evaluation of the organization as a unit of analysis remains a black box as opposed to project and programme evaluation in development evaluation practice.” Thus, a comprehensive evaluation of an organisation as a unit of analysis can help achieve the sustainable development goals. The paper can be accessed here.

From November 26 to December 01 the International Alumni-Conference „Tackling the root causes of displacement in Sub-Sahara Africa” took place in Gordons Bay, South Africa.

The Conference was the first joint Alumni Conference of all DAAD African Excellence Centres in Sub Sahara Africa (the Ghanian-German Centre for Development Studies at the University of Ghana, the Tanzanian-German Centre for Eastern African Legal Studies at the University of Dar es Salaam, the Namibian-German Centre for Logistics at Namibia University of Science and Technology, the South African-German Centre for Transnational Criminal Justice at UWC, the Congolese-German Centre for Microfinance at the Congo Protestant University, Kinshasa, the East and South African-German Centre for Educational Research at the Moi-University, Kenya, and the Kenyan Centre for Mining, Environmental Engineering and Resource Management at Taita Taveta University College in Voi, Kenya), organized by the South African-German Centre for Development Research (SA-GER CDR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa, together with the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy (IEE), Ruhr-University Bochum), Germany.

Out of about 70 applicants from different African Excellence Centres, 41 Alumni were selected to take part in the conference, together with about 20 researchers from participating Centres, 3 invited speakers, 2 DAAD representatives and 17 current DAAD students.

For more information please have a look at our IEE Newsletter No. 26.

Graduation of Master Students - Bochum Programme of Development Management

DAAD/NRF Joint In-Country Masters and Doctoral Scholarship 2018

For South African Students the National Research Foundation (NRF) in partnership with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) offers In-country Masters and Doctoral scholarships for postgraduate studies at South African Universities.

South African applicants for Master and PhD studies at the South African - German Centre for Development Research are encouraged to apply for such a scholarship parallel to their application at CDR.

For more information please have a look here.

The deadline for joint DAAD/NRF scholarships is already 28 July 2017.

6 new Scholarship Holder at the SA-GER CDR

In 2017 6 new Scholarship Holder commenced their studies at our Centre!

Out of 425 applicants the selection committee chose from left to right Irene Naymu (Kenya), Joy Mwaniki (Kenya), Linice Sanga (Malawi), Boniswa Gelese (South Africa) and Faisal Haginour (Somaliland) for a Scholarship. Fikrewold Yeneneh is missing on the foto.

Welcome at the Centre!

New Publication of Davison Muchadenyika

Our PhD Student Davison Muchadenyika again published a paper which is titled: Politics and the practice of planning: The case of Zimbabwean cities. It can be accessed here.