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Tim Donaldson |
Forthcoming publication |
12 October 2005 |
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Behind the Market - this glossy publication covering five strands of research in Kenya/Uganda and India, with accompanying video clips is now available. Please contact the UK office if you would like a copy.
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Tim Donaldson |
Recent publication |
15 September 2005 |
Beyond Agriculture: Making markets work for the poor
Proceedings of this international seminar, held in London in February/March 2005 are available from the CPHP UK office. Click here to order.
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Tina Rowland (United Kingdom) |
News item |
7 January 2005 |
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Poverty fight 'neglects science' - The potential of science and technology for tackling poverty is much more than governments realise, UN advisers say.
A report for the UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan, on how to radically reduce poverty and hunger within 10 years says policymakers lack scientific inputs. Click here to read more on this BBC news article.
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Tina Rowland (United Kingdom) |
News item |
20 October 2004 |
Launch of Computer Donation Program - World Bank
On October 13, 2004 the World Bank launched a Computer Donation Program that will see over 12,000 computers given to needy groups around the globe. The
computers, from more than 100 Bank country offices, will be distributed over the next nine months to non-government organizations, community, and
non-profit groups who are primarily involved in the areas of health care, education, social services, youth, and job training.
The World Bank's partner in this program, Gifts In Kind International, is
the world's leading charity in the field of product philanthropy, it will
handle global distribution of the computers.
Organizations interested in applying for computers are asked to visit http://www.giftsinkind.org/worldbank.asp
Dgroups is a joint initiative of Bellanet, DFID, Hivos, ICA, IICD, OneWorld, UNAIDS
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Dan Kisauzi (Uganda) |
Recent event |
22 March 2004 |
Reflection and Lesson Learning Workshop on Partnerships for Innovation - 17 - 18 February 2004
The DFID Crop Post Harvest Programme in East Africa will be holding a workshop at the Hotel Africana, in Kampala. The purpose of the workshop is to discuss lessons learnt and to share experiences on ways organisations come together (coalitions/partnerships for innovation) to promote technologies, and how their interaction affects the ultimate uptake of the technologies.
The workshop will be centred on five CPHP-funded projects being implemented in East Africa (three in Uganda, one in Kenya and one in Tanzania). Three of these projects were designed with an explicit objective of fostering partnerships in the process of promoting outputs of past CPHP-funded research for the purpose of improving farmers’ access to markets. The expectation is that after the end of the projects, the farmers will not only have overcome the immediate obstacles to accessing markets, but that they will also have become embedded in partnerships that will enable them to solve future market-access constraints.
The three projects are: Improvement of marketing through adoption of improved post-harvest technologies and farmer group storage. A case study of Kiboga and Apac districts; Improving the livelihoods of small-scale sweet potato farmers in central Uganda through a Crop Post-harvest –based innovation system; Enhancing the livelihoods of the rural and urban poor through improved market access for sweet potato in Tanzania.
The other two projects – in which the objective of developing partnerships for innovation is less overt – are: Improved food crops marketing through appropriate transport for poor farmers in Uganda; and; Improved Agricultural rural transport for Kenya.
All the projects are implemented by a wide range of partners including farmers, researchers from the national research systems, regional networks, UK research institutions, NGOs, traders, exporters, and schools.
Dan Kisauzi
Regional Coordinator
CPHP-East Africa
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