Blog C4C, Education, Training, video, workshop, Zambia
Blog item by Akvo’s Kathelyne van den Berg: On the 21 and 22 february I gave a Workshop for the Connect4Change (C4C) Consortium education sector partners in the Copperbelt, Kitwe, Zambia. The workshop was organised together with my Connect4Change colleagues Theresa Stanton (IICD) and Tjeerd de Boer (Edukans). The trip from Lusaka to the Copperbelt [...]
Blog Bolivia, Economic Development, Education, Projects, Training, workshop
Blog by Mark Charmer, Akvo: I’m 12,000 feet up in the Andes this week in the dramatic Bolivian city of La Paz, with South American partners in the Connect 4 Change (C4C) consortium. Over the coming four years C4C is bringing online close to 50 million Euro of Dutch development aid projects, focused on health, [...]
Blog Economic Development, Education, Ethiopia
New item by Akvo: Together with Olaf Erz from IICD, I visited the main local partners for Connect4Change in Ethiopia: the Development Education Center (DEC) and Facilitators for Change (FC). The DEC acts as the local frontline office of Edukans being responsible for the education focus area, while FC is ICCO’s main partner in Ethiopia [...]
Video interview by Akvo: Shot by Luuk Diphoorn on 19-09-2011 in Addis Ababe, Ethiopia. This video interview is with Etefa Merga, who works with the Development Expertise Centre (DEC) in Ethiopia. He explains in brief what the DEC is, namely a local frontline office for a Dutch NGO called Edukans who is specialized in the [...]
Blog Digital course, Education, Ethiopia, Schools
News item by Edukans: Better education at forty primary schools in rural Ethiopia, that is the result of a program executed by Edukans and the Inter-Faculty Teaching Program at the University of Amsterdam in collaboration with the Development Expertise Centre (local office of Edukans in Ethiopia) and some PABO teachers. The project will be continued, [...]
Blog Computers, Education, ICT, Internet, Kenya, Round Table
News item by IICD: Pastoralist (nomadic) tribes in Kenya, including the Maasai will start working with computers and internet to improve their education. This was the outcome of an event that was co-organised by IICD in Machakos, Kenya in July. Together with Connect4Change consortium partner Edukans, IICD organised a ‘Roundtable workshop’ where various partners in [...]
