Cambridge International Development Course Programme 4th Dec 2010

Time Event Room LG17 Room LG18 Room G24 Room B16

0915-0940

Registration - Sign up for the workshops which interest you. There are limited places for each workshop.

0940-1040 Introductory lecture By Kirsty Smith, Director of Methodist Relief and Development Fund

"The Role and Challenges for NGOs in Development Today"

1045-1135

Chris RoseAmos Trust

“The Durban Declaration – a call to action from the world's street

children”: Chris will talk about how the Street Child World Cup project transformed children’s lives.

Alexis WalzCards from Africa

Alexis will talk about Cards from Africa’s role as a social enterprise in helping

orphaned youths in Rwanda.

Sharath SrinivasanCentre of Governance and Human

RightsSharath will talk about how and why the

policy worlds of security and development have increasingly merged in

recent decades, and the benefits and dangers of this.

Aashika DamodarSurvivors Connect

Aashika will talk about gender considerations in development practice,

with reference to three different case studies.

1135-1155

Tea Break

1155-1250 Mid Session Lecture By Dr Alison Evans, Director of the Overseas Development Institute

“International Development in 2010-Opportunities and Challenges”

1250-1340

Lunch and Societies Fair

1340-1440

Ruth DearnleyStop the Traffik

Ruth will talk about child trafficking and the importance of education for

prevention.

Joss SaundersOxfam Legal Department

'Level the playing field: Oxfam’s use of law and advocacy to challenge poverty'

Bolormaa ShagdarFaculty of Education

Bolormaa will discuss the impact of international aid on education including

trends in aid to education in the past two decades and educational outcomes,

drawing on data from countries in Sub-Saran Africa and South Asia.

Abigail Kaplan RamageIndependent Consultant

Abigail will talk about the importance of child health in schools and challenges to

program identification and implementation. She will also conduct a

group exercise on a current school health implementation issue.

1440-1455 Tea Break

1455-1555 Andrew Scott

Practical ActionAndrew will talk about the adaptation to climate change – focusing on the

importance of environmental sustainability for long-term human

development

Dr John BarkerUK Foreign Compensation

CommissionDr Barker will discuss concepts such as

good governance, rule of law, separation of powers, access to justice, human rights; explore how they relate

to each other and how they can be promoted more effectively.

Elfrida CalvocoressiChristian International Peace ServiceElfrida will discuss the difficulties facing

development interventions and will demonstrate how CHIPS adopts a local

approach to conflict resolution in order to secure development outcomes.

David BarkerWhitebox Digital

David will talk about how changing business mentalities combined with the re-alignment of global markets can be

the catalyst to significantly aid the eradication of poverty.

1555-1640

Final Lecture By Benny Dembitzer, Director of the Global Development Forum "From charity to development; an alternative agenda for the 21st Century"

Kirsty Smith is the director of MRDF. MRDF makes small miracles possible for people living in the world's poorest communities through: long-term development, emergency relief and campaigning against the causes of poverty.

Sharath Srinivasan is the David and Elaine Potter Lecturer in Governance and Human Rights, inaugural Director of the Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CG+HR) in POLIS, and a Fellow of King’s College. Prior to academia, Sharath worked in the field of international aid in conflict settings. He has led programmes for a leading international relief agency in Sudan, and has advised a range of international organisations and government agencies on conflict prevention, peace building and political

Dr John Barker is the Chairman of the UK Foreign Compensation Commission, a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, a Law Fellow at Hughes Hall and the Coordinator of the Governance Education Network. With professional experience in S. and W. Africa spanning 28 years, he advises governments, international agencies and NGOs on justice sector reform and institutional capacity-building. He is a founding member of the Association for Commonwealth Studies, and has designed, implemented and evaluated a number of legal reform and transitional justice programmes for the UNDP, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the European Commission, CIDA and DFID. His areas of interest are international claims practice and the

Ruth Dearnly is the CEO of Stop the Traffik. Stop the Traffik is a growing global movement of individuals, communities and organisations fighting to prevent the sale of people, protect the trafficked and prosecute the traffickers. Stop the Traffik was set up in 2006 to: Educate, Advocate and Fundraise. Stop the Traffik now has more than 1000 member organisations in 50 countries and tens of thousands of activists all over the world.

Elfrida Calvocoressi is the wife of Roy Calvocoressi – the Founder of CHIPS and Director for its first 40 years until 2006. Elfrida trained as a nurse in England, and after 8 years’ UK experience, went to fill senior nursing & obstetric posts in NE Uganda, with CMS, for 4 years. On leave in the UK, Elfrida met Roy in 1974, home from the first CHIPS project in Cyprus, and following their marriage, CHIPS expanded into other regions, including Uganda in 1990. David Barker is a social entrepreneur and founded WhiteBox Digital in 2005, which seeks to fight poverty by creating job opportunities for those struggling to get off benefits and back into employment. In March 2010 Whitebox expanded into 5 cities in England lifting 133 people out of long-term unemployment and by December will be expanding into Scotland. Mr Barker will be speaking on the work of WhiteBox

Joss Saunders has been the Legal Adviser for Oxfam GB since 1998.  He combines the internal role of keeping Oxfam up to date with legal changes and meeting its legal operational needs with an external facing legal policy role. The policy role currently has a strong focus on public interest litigation and on climate change.  This includes the current legal support for NGOs and Least Developed Country delegations at the Cancun climate change conference under the UNFCCC.  The internal role varies from the laws that affect operations in a natural disaster to working out what shops law entails. 

Bolormaa Shagdar is a Research Associate for DFID funded Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP) based at the Centre for Education and International Development. She is conducting research on aid to education and educational outcomes in collaboration with researchers from institutions based in the UK, Africa and South Asia. The research focuses on 2 main thematic issues: the long-term impact on educational systems in partner countries of prioritising

Alexis Walz Alexis is full of passion for using her Bachelor’s degree in Marketing and International Business Management from the University of Illinois to make a difference in the world. She is currently using her innovative thinking and strategic marketing skills to assist the founder of Cards from Africa to launch Cards from Africa UK in Cambridge

Aashika Damodar is the founder and CEO of Survivors Connect, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing grassroots anti-trafficking service. She has worked the past 3 years in a number of developing countries, most recently in Haiti, working with grassroots organizations to empower and enhance local movements against gender-based violence and slavery. She is a graduate from the University of California, Berkeley and is currently working towards an MPhil in Development Studies in Cambridge.

Abigail Ramage is an independent consultant working in child health and nutrition. She holds an MS in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition and an MA in Development Economics. Abigail has worked in Africa, Asia and Latin America and most recently worked on an initiative with UNESCO, Save the Children, WHO, the World Bank, UNICEF and the Partnership for Child Development on the monitoring and evaluation plan for global school health programming.

Andrew Scott is the Director of Policy and Programmes at Practical Action, an international NGO that uses technology to challenge poverty, working with women and men in poor communities to build their capabilities, improve their access to technical options and knowledge, and enable them to influence the social, economic and institutional systems that

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Chris Rose is the Associate Director of Amos Trust and the founder of the Street Child World Cup. Amos Trust is a faith based human rights organisation working with peacemakers in Palestine and Israel, street children activists in South Africa, community activists in Nicaragua and Dalit rights campaigners in India. The SCWC was set up in response to Amos's partners work in S. Africa so that the 2010 FIFA World Cup could be a catalyst for change for street children. Chris joined Amos Trust following a visit to Palestine with Amos Trust in 2004. Since then he has worked with each of Amos' partners to find fresh creative ways to present their

Benny Dembitzer is a British economist who has specialized in the economics of developing countries, particularly on the continent of Africa. He was European Director of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War when it won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. Benny's long and varied career began in the Economist Intelligence Unit in London and has given him experience in 35 countries in Africa and 2 in Asia, with many high-profile development agencies such as UNDP, USAID, and DFID and voluntary charities including Oxfam, Care International, and War on Want. Currently, Benny runs courses on international development in London for the staff of various voluntary charities and others interested in the problems faced by the

Dr Alison Evans began her career teaching development economics at the University of Sussex. Her practical policy experience stems from six years at the World Bank and work as an independent consultant with a specific focus on PRSPs, budgetary processes, aid modalities, aid effectiveness and evaluation. She has extensive experience in S. and E. Africa and the Western Balkans, and has taken several shorter assignments