Development's Futures Conference E-book

 Edited by Carol Healy

  Table of Contents

• Introduction to the E-book
• Welcome by the President of NUI Galway
• Message from Minister of State for Overseas Development
• Guest Speakers’ Biographies
• Keynote Address by Michael Edwards

Papers

• Governance and Policies
• Development Education Resources and Methodologies (Centres)
• Thinking about Development Education - Contexts
• Environment and Development
• Community Development
• Research Partnerships
• Crisis and Conflict 
• Food Security
• Volunteering
• Politics of Land
• Power and Politics
• Development Education Modalities
• Gender Perspectives
• Teacher Education
• Agriculture and Communities - Inclusion and Exclusion
• Religion and Development
• Development Education Resources and Methodologies for Schools
• HIV/AIDS
• Concepts and Realities - Rights
• Ethnographic Perspectives
• NGO Partnerships for Poverty Reduction
• Education Policies Africa

Governance and Policies

• Morína O’Neill and Dr. Eileen Connolly (DCU): 
  'Good Governance’ and the New Aid Agenda in the Context of Aid Harmonization
• Pat McCarthy (UCC):
  Civil Society Participation and Environmental Protection in the European Community’s Multilateral Trade Negotiations Policy and Procedure
• JoAnne Mancini (NUIM) and Graham Finlay (UCD):
  “Citizenship Matters”: Lessons from the Irish citizenship referendum”

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Development Education Resources and Methodologies (Centres)

• Kathleen Horgan and Deirdre O’ Rourke (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick):
  Development Education & Participative Learning Methodologies (PLM) at Third Level
• Mary McGillicuddy (KADE):
  Developing Civil Society Participation
• Jennifer Harris (Waterford One World Centre):
  The Role and Function of Regional Development Education Centres

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Thinking about Development Education – Contexts

• Rhea Swinson-Fitzpatrick (Galway One World Centre):
  Signposts for Transformative Education: Historical Lessons
• Gerry O’Reilly (St Patrick’s College):
  Education: Humanitarian Crises and Emergency Action

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Environment and Development

• K. T. Thomson (Cochin University of Science and Technology):
  Development policies, state interventions and struggle for livelihood rights: A study of coastal communities in Kerala, India
• Conor Fox (Trócaire):
  Can the CDM assist family farming agro-forestry?
• Paradzai Pathias Bongo (Practical Action Southern Africa, Zimbabwe):
  Community-based disaster risk reduction in the context of climate change: The case of rural Zimbabwe

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Community Development

• Sylvie Kokere , Orla O’Neill, Mulugeta H/Gabriel, and Birhanu Tafete (Concern Ethiopia, Addis Ababa):
  Lessons Learned from Implementing Community-based Therapeutic Care in Pastoralist Communities in Afar Region, Ethiopia.
• Alex Jacobs (Mango) and Robyn Wilford (Concern):
  Putting new approaches to NGO accountability into action

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Research Partnerships

• Nick Chisholm (UCC), Mitiku Haile (Mekelle University, Ethiopia) Nigussie Abadi (Mekelle University, Ethiopia), Tom Crowley (UCC), Mike Fitzgibbon (UCC):
  Degrees of Freedom: Applied Development Research in Ethiopia through a South-North Partnership Programme
• Barry Cannon (DCU):
  Active Citizenship in Central America: creating alliances between local government, civil society organisations and universities in the poorest regions of Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras.
• Mary Manandhar (NUIG), Margaret Maimbolwa (University of Zambia), Muulu Elson (School of Nursing, Kasama, Zambia), Mary Mwenga Mulenga (AIMS project, Zambia) and Diarmuid O’Donovan (NUIG):
  Intersectoral debate about social research strengthens advocacy and action for maternal survival in Zambia

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Crisis and Conflict

• Walt Kilroy (DCU):
  Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) as a participatory process: involving communities and beneficiaries in post-conflict disarmament programmes

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Food Security

• Blessings Chinsinga (University of Malawi):
  Hedging Food Security through Winter Cultivation: The Agronomy of Dimba Cultivation in Malawi
• Pádraig Wims and Kingsly Zimba (UCD):
  An Evaluation of the impact of the Multiplication and Distribution of Improved Seeds and Planting Materials project on the household food security of rural small-scale farmers in Zambia

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Volunteering

• Lorraine Tansey and Maria-Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez (NUI Galway):
  University Platform & Student Volunteering:  Harnessing Student Civic Engagement through Volunteering
• Dervla King (Comhlámh):
  An overview of Comhlámh’s research into the impact of international volunteering on host organisations in India and Tanzania.
• Brenda Gallagher (NUI Galway):
  Volunteering in the Developing World

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Politics of Land

• Asrat Tadesse (Catholic Church Community Based Integrated Development Program, Southern region of Ethiopia): Resettlement and food security with reference to the Ethiopian experience: The Boreda case
• Edward Lahiff (University of the Western Cape, South Africa):
  Prospects for Agrarian Reform in southern Africa

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Power and Politics

• Joseph Burke (UCD):
  The Relationship Between Economics and Participation in PRSPs – Uganda’s Poverty Eradication Action Plan
• Eilish Dillon (Kimmage Development Studies Centre):
  The More things Change, the More they Remain the Same? Understanding Power Relations in the International Development Field in Ireland
• David Nyaluke and Michael Seifu (DCU):
  Global political economy and the developmental state in Africa

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Development Education Modalities

• Matthias Fiedler (DICE):
  It's the Education, Stupid! Teaching in the knowledge society from a global and social justice perspective
• John Smith (Trócaire ):
  Development Education in Action: An examination of Trócaire’s Development Education Senior Cycle programme in the context of the formal education sector .
• Su-ming Khoo, Carol Healy and Kelly Coate (NUI Galway):
  Development Education and Development Research at third level in Ireland – contradictory or complementary?

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Gender Perspectives

• Sharon S. Jackson (Trinity College, Dublin):
  Empowerment, gender and HIV&AIDS in Tanzania: quantitative and qualitative analysis
• Nata Duvvury (International Centre for research on Women, Washington) and Srinivas Raghavendra (NUI Galway):
  Gender-Based Violence, Identity, and Development: Initial Explorations
• Jacqui O’Riordan (UCC), Florence Swai (Institute of Resource Assessment, Dar es Salaam), Godwin Siundu (Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kenya):
  An Overview of Our Research on Women's Involvement in Informal Sector Enterprises

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Teacher Education

• Deirdre Hogan (Ubuntu Network):
  An Approach to the Integration of Development Education into Initial Teacher Education
• Roisin Corcoran and Roland Tormey (University of Limerick):
  Understanding Emotional Competencies Through Development Education in Teacher Education
• Orla McCormack and Joanne O’ Flaherty (University of Limerick):
  Pre-service Teachers Attitudes And Experiences Towards Integration of Development Education in Post-primary Schools

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Agriculture and communities, Inclusion and Exclusion

• Sheehy Skeffington M (NUI Galway), Morales, H. (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México) and Ferguson, B. G. (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México):
  Lessons from two contrasting organic growing systems –Chiapas, Mexico and Cuba
• Stephen Onakuse and Eamon Lenihan (UCC):
  Livelihood Systems and Rural Linkages in Niger-Delta Region of Nigeria

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Religion and Development

• Fergal Rhatigan (NUI Maynooth):
  Concepts of Development and Embedded Identities of Irish missionaries
• Patricia Wall (Development Training and Learning Programme (Dtalk), Kimmage Development Studies Centre ):
  Concepts of Development – the Role and Recognition of Faith Based Development Initiatives such as the Missionary Enterprise
• Niamh Brennan (Milltown Institute):
  Faith: An Obstacle or an Element of Development?

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Development Education Resources and Methodologies for schools

• Julia Franz (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg):
  Generations learning together: Sustainability

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HIV/AIDS

• Patricia Callanan (UCC):
  “Damned if I Do and Damned if I don’t”: Women’s Dilemmas in the face of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Kibret Shiferaw (Kimmage Development Studies Centre):
  The Challenge of Multi-sectoral responses to HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia. A case study of Achefer Wereda (District)
• Aisling Walsh and Ruairi Brugha (Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland):
  Global HIV/AIDS Initiatives Network (GHIN): Early lessons from a network approach to global research

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Concepts and Realities – Rights

• Tamuka Muzondo (Civil Society Consultant, Zimbabwe):
  Human rights protection under diminished funding in Zimbabwe
• Owen McIntyre (UCC):
  Utilisation and Environmental Protection of Shared International Freshwater Resources - The Role of Equity
• Olive Moore (UCD):
  From Right to Development to Rights in Development; Human Rights Based Approaches to Development

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Ethnographic Perspectives

• Paul McCallion (Concern Worldwide/NUI Maynooth):
  Technical knowledge transfer in post war Liberia
• Ed Du Vivier (NUI Maynooth):
  Of the Traditional and the Modern: The Impact of Historical Forms of Resistance on the Trajectory of Development in an Independent Namibia
• Malathi de Alwis (University of Colombo):
  A Community of Dependents?: ’Doing Politics’ in Post-tsunami Sri Lanka

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NGO partnerships for poverty reduction

• Achyut Hari Aryal (Concern Worldwide, Bangladesh):
  Microfinance for extreme poor, a renewed effort. An approach to operate sustainable microfinance for poor and extreme poor through Community Based Organisation in Bangladesh
• Sinead Walsh (Concern Worldwide):
  Assisting Poor People Through NGO Partnerships: Experiences from South Asia and South Sudan
• Vanessa Liston (Trinity College Dublin):
  Do what I say not what I do: NGOs and democracy in Kenya

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Education Policies Africa

• Cathal Higgins (Independent Consultant):
  Multigrade Teaching. A Viable Option for Sub-Saharan Africa?
• Stellah Keihangwe Tumwebaze (Literacy Network for Uganda):
  Public Private partnership in Adult Basic Education
• Felistus Kinyanjui (Egerton University, Kenya):
  The Missing Link: Interrogating Entry to Kenya’s Secondary School System
• Fred Gennings Wanyvinkhumbo Msiska (Mzuzu University, Malawi):
  The Brain Drain-Gain, Quality of Higher Education and Development in Malawi

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