the irish-african partnership for research capacity … · launch of iap’s malawi workshop...

Opened by

Sir Reg Empey, Northern Ireland Minister for Employment and Learning

Keynote Speakers

Dr Mary Robinson, President, Realizing Rights:the Ethical Globalization InitiativeMr Tom Arnold, Chief Executive,Concern WorldwideProfessor Brian O’Connell, Vice Chancellor,University of the Western Capee

THE IRISH-AFRICAN PARTNERSHIPFOR RESEARCH CAPACITY BUILDING

The Fifth Workshop and Conference - Queens University Belfast September 29 - October 1 2010

BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND

PROGRAMME

DAY ONE - WEDNESDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER

The Great Hall, Queen’s University Belfast

MORNING SESSION

Chair: Professor Frank Kee, Professor of Public HealthMedicine, Queen’s University Belfast

9.30 Registr ation10.00 – 10.30 Welcome and opening

Professor Peter Gregson, Vice-Chancellor,Queen’s University BelfastSir Reg Empey MLA, Minister for Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland

10.30 – 11.00 Refreshments

Chair: Mr Dick Spring, Chair, Irish African Partnership (IAP)International Advisory Board, and former Irish Tánaiste andMinister for Foreign Affairs

11.00 – 12.30 Irish Aid: Mr Michael Gaffey,Deputy Director General Higher Education Authority: Dr Eucharia Meehan, Head of Research and Capital ProgrammesUniversities Ireland: Professor Tom Collins,President, National University of Ireland MaynoothIAP’s African Partner InstitutionsProfessor Yunus Mgaya, Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Dar es Salaam Professor Eli Katunguka-Rwakishaya,Director, School of Graduate Studies, MakerereUniversity, UgandaProfessor John Saka, Team Leader, Natural Resources and Environment Centre,Chancellor College, University of MalawiProfessor Mamudo Ismail, Dean of Medicine, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane,Mozambique

12.30 Buffet lunch in the South Dining Hall, QUB

AFTERNOON SESSION

Chairs: Professor Joseph Tesha, Director of Research,University of Dar es SalaamProfessor Ronnie Munck, Co Chair, IAP ExecutiveCommittee, Dublin City University.

IAP Workpackages: reviewing outputs and results

1.30 – 1.40 Stakeholder consultation: Professor SeanFarren, University of Ulster

1.40 – 1.50 Foresight Exercise: Dr Goretti Nakabugo,Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick

1.50 – 2.35 Malawi Summer School Research Support Modules and Resources:Professor John Saka, University of Malawi;Dr Honor Fagan, National University of Ireland Maynooth; Professor Michael Healy,

Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick

2.35 – 3.00 Web Portal: Professor Jane Grimson,Trinity College Dublin; Professor George Nasinyama, Makerere University

3.00 – 3.15 Refreshments 3.15 – 3.30 Metrics: Dr Eimear Barrett, Queen’s

University Belfast3.30 – 3.45 Summary: Mr Peter McEvoy, Project

Manager, IAP, Dublin City University3.45 – 4.30 Discussion

EVENING

5.00 Depart for Civic Reception, Stormont 6.15 – 7.30 Civic Reception, Parliament Buildings,

Stormont – hosted by Mr Jim Wells, MLA,Chair, All Party Group on International Development, Northern Ireland Assembly Launch of IAP’s Malawi workshop resource book: Research Capacity Building for Development – Resources for Higher Education Institutions

8.15 Dinner in the Great Hall, Queen’s University Belfast.After dinner speaker: Professor John Hegarty, Provost, Trinity College Dublin, and Chair, Universities Ireland

DAY TWO – THURSDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER

MORNING SESSION

Chairs: Professor Jane Grimson, Professor of HealthInformatics, Trinity College DublinDr Consolata Kabonesa, Head of Department of Womenand Gender Studies, Makerere University, Uganda

9.10 – 9.40 Keynote address on Climate Justice: Dr Mary Robinson, President, Realizing Rights:the Ethical Globalization Initiative; former President of Ireland; former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

9.40 – 9.50 Respondent 1: Dr Agnes Nyomora, College of Applied and Natural Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam

9.50 –10.00 Respondent 2: Professor Frank Convery,Heritage Trust Professor of Environmental Policy and Director of Urban Institute Ireland ,University College Dublin; Chair, Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland

10.00 – 10.45 Questions10.45 – 11.15 Refreshments11.15 – 12.05 Five break out groups on climate justice:

Group 1 Facilitated by Professor Jane Grimson,Trinity College Dublin (TCD): Great HallGroup 2 Facilitated by Ms Niamh Brennan,TCD: Great HallGroup 3 Facilitated by Ms Sarah Glavey, TCD:Old Common RoomGroup 4 Facilitated by Ms Roisin McEvoy,University of Ulster: Newark Room Group 5 Facilitated by Dr Eimear Barrett, QUB:South Dining Hall

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12.05 – 12.45 Plenary discussion: Great Hall, QUB12.45 Buffet lunch in the South Dining Hall, QUB

AFTERNOON SESSION

Chairs: Professor Myles Wickstead, former Head ofSecretariat, Commission for AfricaProfessor Mamudo Ismail, Dean of Medicine, UniversidadeEduardo Mondlane

2.00 – 2.40 Keynote address on Hunger and Food Security: Mr Tom Arnold, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide

2.40 – 3.00 Respondent 1: Professor A Z Mattee,Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Education and Extension, Sokoine University, Tanzania

3.00 – 3.20 Respondent 2: Professor Jane Wilde, Chief Executive, Institute of Public Health in Ireland

3.20 – 3.45 Refreshments3.45 – 4.35 Five break out groups on hunger and food

security:Group 1 Facilitated by Professor James Phelan,University College Dublin (UCD): Great HallGroup 2 Facilitated by Professor A Z Mattee:Great HallGroup 3 Facilitated by Dr Jim Kinsella, UCD: OldStaff Common RoomGroup 4 Facilitated by Dr Nick Chisholm,University College Cork: Newark RoomGroup 5 Facilitated by Mr Peter McEvoy,Project Manager, IAP: South Dining Hall

EVENING

5.30 Depart for University of Ulster, Belfast Campus6.00 – 7.00 Reception at University of Ulster, Belfast

Campus, hosted by Professor Richard Barnett, Vice Chancellor. Launch of Commission for Africa 5 year Review Report by Professor Myles Wickstead

7.00 Dinner at University of Ulster, Belfast Campus,hosted by Professor Richard Barnett

DAY 3 - FRIDAY 1ST OCTOBER

MORNING SESSION

Chairs: Ms Maire Matthews, Irish AidProfessor Christopher Kamlongera, University of Malawi

9.15 – 10.30 Keynote address on Global North-South Partnership: Past trends, present realities and how future partnership might look : Professor Brian O’Connell,Rector and Vice Chancellor, University of Western Cape, South Africa Respondent: Dr Damtew Teferra, former Director for Africa and the Middle East, Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program;founder, International Network for Higher Education in Africa

Questions and discussion

10.30 – 11.00 Refreshments11.00 – 12.45 Round table session to inform IAP future

direction, with international perspectives11.00 – 11.15 European University Association:

Mr Michael Hörig, EUA11.15 – 11.30 World Health Organisation ESSENCE Initiative:

Dr Garry Aslanyan (WHO)11.30 – 11.45 Prospects for IAP Phase 2: Professor Ronnie

Munck, Co Chair IAP11.45 – 12.15 African Partner perspectives: Professor

Mamudo Ismail, Universidade Eduardo MondlaneProfessor Eli Katunguka Rwakishaya,Makerere UniversityProfessor John Saka University of MalawiProfessor Joseph Tesha University of Dar es Salaam

12.15 – 12.40 Discussion12.40 Summary by Chair12.45 – 1.00 Formal closing ceremony:

Professor Seán Farren, University of Ulster,and Co Chair IAP

1.00 – 2.30 Lunch in the South Dining Hall, QUB2.30 Afternoon excursion for visitors to Ulster F olk

and Transport Museum/Belfast wall murals

SPEAKERS AND CHAIRPERSONS

Dr Mary Robinson is the foundingPresident of Realizing Rights: the EthicalGlobalization Initiative (set up in 2002),whose mission is ‘to put human rightsstandards at the heart of global governanceand policy-making and to ensure that theneeds of the poorest and most vulnerableare addressed on the global stage.’ In thisrole she travels the world promoting five

‘critical global challenges’: equitable trade and decent work;the right to health; more humane migration policies; theWomen Leaders Intercultural Forum; and corporateresponsibility. From 1990 to 1997 Dr Robinson served adistinguished term as President of Ireland, during which timeshe was the first Head of State to visit Rwanda in theaftermath of the 1994 genocide, and the first Head of State tovisit Somalia after the 1992 humanitarian crisis ther e (andreceived the CARE Humanitarian Award in recognition of herefforts for that country). In September 1997 she became theUnited Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,following her nomination to the post by Secr etary-General KofiAnnan, and served in that post until 2002. As HighCommissioner, she gave priority to implementing theSecretary-General's reform proposal to integrate human rightsinto all the activities of the UN . In 1998 she was the first UNHigh Commissioner to visit China where she signed a wideranging agreement with the government to improve humanrights. Before she became President, Dr Robinson served inthe Irish Senate for 20 years and was an eminent barrister andhuman rights lawyer, including as a member of theInternational Commission of Jurists. She has been awardednumerous honorary degrees, medals and prizes fromuniversities and humanitarian organizations around the world.She is Honorary President of Oxfam International and a


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founding member and Chair of the Council of WomenWorld Leaders.

Professor Frank Kee is Professor ofPublic Health Medicine and Director of theCentre for Clinical and Population Sciencesat Queen’s University Belfast. He hasbachelor’s degrees in Physiology andmathematics, a Masters in Public Healthand Doctorate in Medicine, and is a Fellowof the Royal College of Physicians ofEdinburgh and of the Faculty of Public

Health (Royal College of Physicians). Professor Kee is also aFellow of the Royal Statistical Society. Recently, in partnershipwith the Institute of Public Health in Ir eland, and in tandemwith five schools from Queen’s University, he won aUKCRC/Research Council Centre of Excellence for PublicHealth Research award. His own research interest are inclinical epidemiology and translational research andincreasingly in the field of public health interventions .

Professor Peter Gregson was appointedPresident and Vice-Chancellor of Queen'sUniversity Belfast in 2004. He has led theuniversity into the Russell Group of the 20leading UK universities in 2006 and to theTimes Higher Education UK EntrepreneurialUniversity of the Year in 2009. A graduateof Imperial College London, he wasappointed to the academic staff of

University of Southampton in 1983. He became Professor ofAerospace Materials in 1995 and Deputy Vice Chancellor in2000. He published more than 150 peer reviewed papersbetween 1983 and 2005 and has been a warded numerousprizes for his research into advanced aerospace aluminiumalloys. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering,Irish Academy of Engineering and the Royal Irish Academy. Heis a Non-Executive Director of Rolls Royce Group plc andDirector of UCEA (the Universities and Colleges EmployersAssociation). He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Belfastin 2007.

Sir Reg Empey MLA is Minister forEmployment and Learning in the NorthernIreland Executive. An economics graduateof Queen’s University Belfast, in 1975, atthe age of 28, he was elected an UlsterUnionist Member of the Northern IrelandConstitutional Convention. He has twicebeen Lord Mayor of Belfast in 1989 and1993. In the 1990s he was a leading

member of the Ulster Unionist negotiating teams both in theBrooke-Mayhew talks of 1991, and in the Castle Buildingstalks, chaired by Senator George Mitchell, which led to the1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and the formation of thepresent Northern Ireland Assembly. In 1999 he was knighted(KBE) in the New Year's Honours List. In that year he wasappointed as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Investment inthe new Northern Ireland Executive, a post he held until thecollapse of the power-sharing executive in October 2002. In2004 he became Deputy Leader of the Ulster UnionistAssembly Party and a year later was elected Leader of theUlster Unionist Party.

Mr Dick Spring is a former Tánaiste(deputy prime minister) and Minister forForeign Affairs of Ireland. He was leader ofthe Irish Labour Party from 1982 to 1997. Aformer rugby international, he was firstelected to the Dail in 1981 and served asMinister for the Environment in 1982-83and Tanaiste and Minister for Energy in1982-1987. He returned to office as

Tánaiste and Minister of Foreign Affairs in two coalitiongovernments in 1993-1994 and 1994-1997. He was involved innegotiations leading to the IRA and loyalist ceasefir es inNorthern Ireland in 1994 and in further talks (up to 1997)which led to the 1998 Belfast Agreement. He is now abusinessman in his native Kerry and is also chairman of theRéalta Global AIDS Foundation led by Irish doctor, Dr ConceptaMerry, which works in sub-Saharan African.

Mr Michael Gaffey has been the DeputyDirector of Irish Aid in the Department ofForeign Affairs since 2008. He worked inthe Political Division of the Departmentfrom 2002, as Director for the Middle East,and - during Ireland’s 2004 EU Presidency -as Director for South East Europe. He hasbeen an official of the Department ofForeign Affairs since 1979, serving at

various times in missions in Tokyo, London, Cairo, Baghdadand Chicago, as well as at Headquarters in the Anglo-IrishDivision.

Dr. Eucharia Meehan is Head of Researchand Capital Programmes at the Irish HigherEducation Authority (HEA). In that role sheoversees the investment of governmentfunding for physical infrastructure in thehigher education sector, including asDirector of the Programme for Research inThird Level Institutions (PRTLI), a keyinvestment vehicle for the development of

national research capabilities. She is a member of the Inter-departmental Committee for Science, Technology andInnovation. Prior to joining the HEA in 2001, she worked for11 years in the private sector in Ir eland and the US in strategicplanning for research, development and innovation. Agraduate of NUI Galway and Trinity College Dublin, herbackground is in pharmacology and biochemistry,complemented by qualifications in management, accountingand finance. She is a former Chair of Women in Technologyand Science (WITS).

Professor John Hegarty became Provostof Trinity College Dublin, Ireland’s leadingand oldest university, in 2001, followingperiods as Dean of Research and Head ofthe Physics Department. He did his PhD inPhysics at University College Galway, andfollowing a postdoctoral stay at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, was aresearch scientist at Bell Labs, New Jersey,

for six years. He returned to Ireland in 1986 as Professor ofLaser Physics in TCD. The focus of Dr Hegarty’s research is thestudy of light and how it inter acts with matter. He hasproduced over 140 publications, and developed severalpatents. He has been an Adjunct Professor at University of

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Georgia USA and Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo andSony Corporation. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy,the American Physical Society, the American Optical Societyand a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.

Professor Tom Collins has recently beenappointed President of National Universityof Ireland Maynooth, having been VicePresident for External Affairs and Dean ofTeaching and Learning in NUIM. Beforethat he was Head of the EducationDepartment in the university. He is aformer Director of Dundalk Institute ofTechnology. He was government advisor

on both the Green Paper (1998) and the White Paper (2000) onAdult Education at which time he was Dir ector of the Centrefor Adult and Community Education at NUI Maynooth. He iscurrently chair of the National Council for Curriculum andAssessment in the Republic of Ireland.

Professor Yunus Mgaya is the DeputyVice Chancellor responsible for Planning,Finance and Administration at theUniversity of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania andis also involved in teaching and supervisingpostgraduate (masters and doctorate)students. He has published extensively inlocal and international peer reviewedjournals on marine biology, fisheries and

aquaculture. He received his MSc in Fisheries Biology fromUniversity of British Colombia, Canada in 1989 and his PhD inaquaculture from National University of Ireland Galway in1995.He has held a range of academic posts at the University of Da res Salaam since 1986, including Dean of theFaculty of Aquatic Sciences and Technology from 2003 to2006. He is Chairman of the board of the Tanzanian FisheriesResearch Institute, and Chairman of the Tanzania-IrelandAlumni Association.

Prof Eli Katunguka Rwakishaya isProfessor of Veterinary Medicinespecialising in VeterinaryParasitology/Clinical Pathology at MakerereUniversity, Kampala, Uganda. He waseducated at Makerere University for hisBachelor’s degree, University CollegeDublin for his Master’s and GlasgowUniversity for his Doctorate. He served as

Head of Department, Deputy Dean and Dean of Makerere’sFaculty of Veterinary Medicine from 1996 to 2005.He iscurrently the Director of the School of Graduate Studies whichis charged with coordination of graduate training andresearch, including donor funded research programmes, in theuniversity. He is a co-Chair of the Executive Committee of theIrish-African Partnership for Research Capacity Building (IAP).

Professor John Saka is theCoordinator/Team Leader in the Faculty ofScience’s Natural Resources andEnvironment Centre (NAREC), ChancellorCollege, University of Malawi. He is achemist with research interests in science,utilization and commercialization of naturalresources for household incomes,improved health and nutrition. He has over

20 years experience in carrying out individual and groupresearch with scientists from various African and Europeancountries, and has published over 25 papers in international,regional and national refereed scientific journals. His ownresearch projects concern the chemistry, processing andmarketing of cassava and miombo indigenous fruit tr ees, andhe is the principal investigator in projects on processing andmarketing of high quality and safe cassava flour; genetics andchemistry of tropical root and tuber crops; processing,product development and marketing of high value productsfrom indigenous fruits; and capacity building in water sciencesfor monitoring and management of water r esources.

Professor Mamudo Ismail is Dean of theFaculty of Medicine at UniversidadeEduardo Mondlane (UEM) in Maputo,Mozambique, and Head of the Departmentof Pathology/Pathology laboratory at theCentral Hospital of Maputo. He holds amedical degree from UEM and a PhD inMedicine and Surgery (Surgical Pathology)from the Central University of Barcelona.

His areas of research interest, in which he has publishedwidely, are placental and maternal malaria, tuberculosis, HIV.Other areas of interest are fine needle aspiration biopsies, softtissue tumours and immunohistochemistry. His most recentco-authored study was Clinico-pathological discrepancies inthe diagnosis of causes of maternal death in sub-SaharanAfrica: retrospective analysis. (2009)

Professor Joseph Tesha was appointedthe Director of Research at the Universityof Dar es Salaam in July 2009. He waspreviously Acting Dean of the Faculty ofMechanical and Chemical Engineering inthe College of Engineering and Technology.A mechanical engineer, he graduated fromthe then Faculty of Engineering in 1978.He received his Masters degree (1981) and

his PhD (1994) in Advanced Materials at Cranfield University inEngland. He worked for some years in r esearch laboratories inthe UK and Switzerland. For the past six years he has beingdoing research on the utilization of agricultural residues andwaste in the production of panel products, using locallydeveloped resins based on Cashew Nut Shell Liquid. He is aco-Chair of the Executive Committee of the IAP.

Professor Ronnie Munck is Head of Civicand Global Engagement at Dublin CityUniversity and visiting Professor ofSociology at University of Liverpool.Previously he was the first post-apartheidChair in Sociology at the University ofDurban-Westville in South Africa. He haswritten widely on development issues,including Critical Development Theory:

Contributions to a New Paradigm (London, 2000) and on hisnative Latin America, most recently Contemporary LatinAmerica (London, 2008). His recent work has focused on theimpact of globalisation in Globalization and Social Exclusion: ATransformationalist Perspective (2005) and Globalization andContestation: The new great counter-movement (2007). He iscurrently working on globalisation and migration in Ireland andedits the e-journal Translocations (www.translocations.ie). He

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is a co-Chair of the Executive Committee of the IAP andconvenor of the Development Studies Association Ireland.

Professor Sean Farren started his careerteaching in Ireland, Switzerland and SierraLeone before joining the Education Centreat the New University of Ulster as aLecturer and later Senior Lecturer. Hisresearch interests include curriculumstudies, education in a divided society andthe history of Irish education. In politics hewas a senior negotiator for the Social

Democratic and Labour Party during the 1996-98 negotiationsin Northern Ireland. Elected to the Northern Ireland Assemblyin 1998, he held ministerial positions in the power-sharingExecutive of 1999-2002, first as Minister for Employment andLearning and later as Minister for Finance and Personnel. Heretired from politics in 2007. He is the author of two books,several book chapters and many articles dealing witheducation and politics in Northern Ireland.He is a co-Chair ofthe Executive Committee of the IAP.

Dr Goretti Nakabugo is the educationresearcher for the Irish-African Partnershipfor Research Capacity Building, and ishosted by Mary Immaculate College,University of Limerick. Before comingIreland in 2008, she was Senior Lecturerand Head of the Department of Curriculum,Teaching and Media at Makerere University,Uganda. She holds a Masters and PhD

Degree from the University of Cape Town and a BA inEducation from Makerere University. Her research interestsinclude curriculum reform, pedagogy, assessment for learning,education development and international cooperation ineducation. She was a Visiting Professor to the Center for theStudy of International Cooperation in Education, HiroshimaUniversity, Japan in 2006. She is a member of the Society forResearch in Higher Education and has undertaken educationstudies in Uganda, South Africa, Indonesia and Japan.

Dr Honor Fagan is Dean of GraduateStudies and a Senior Lecturer in Sociologyat the National University of Ireland,Maynooth. She chairs the Irish UniversityAssociation Deans of Graduate EducationGroup and has presented papers onresearch training provision in Ireland atnumerous international conferences. Asociologist, she has previously lectured in

sociology departments in Northern Ireland, South Africa andBritain. Her current research interests include globalisationand human security, governance and civil society, and e-democracy. She did field research on early school leavers inDublin for her book Cultural Politics and Irish Early SchoolLeavers: Constructing Political Identities (1995). She also hasdone field research on women in South African townships,which has been published in articles on gender anddevelopment in leading scholarly journals and books. She hascarried out European and national funded r esearch projectson e-democracy.

Professor Michael Healy is AssociateVice President and Head of Research atMary Immaculate College, University ofLimerick. He holds a Masters and PhD ingeography from University College Cork; healso holds a Higher Diploma in Education.He lectured in geography, environmentalscience, environmental management andcountryside management at Manchester

Metropolitan University from 1990 to 1996. He returned toIreland to lecture in geography at Mary Immaculate College,where he also held the post of Dir ector of Graduate Studies.He has published three edited books in the field of physicalgeography, as well as co-editing the manual developed fromthe IAP’s March 2010 Malawi summer school – ResearchCapacity Building for Development: Resources for HigherEducation Institutions – which will be launched during theQueen’s conference. He is an executive member of the Centr efor Global Development through Education, an Irish Aid-funded initiative hosted at Mary Immaculate College.

Professor Jane Grimson is Director ofthe Centre for Health Informatics at TrinityCollege Dublin (TCD) and holds a personalchair in health informatics there. She is aformer Vice-Provost, Dean of Research andDean of Engineering at TCD, having joinedthe university as a Lecturer in ComputerScience in 1980. Her main researchinterests are health information systems

and electronic health records. She is a past president of theInstitution of Engineers or Ireland, the Irish Academy ofEngineering, the Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland, andthe Irish Computer Society. She is currently Chair of the IrishResearch Council for Science, Engineering and Technology.She is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering,Engineers Ireland, the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland,and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. She is currentlyon a partial secondment to the Health Information and QualityAuthority in Ireland as its Director of Health Information. Shehas been instrumental in the introduction of policies inrelation to open access publication by a number of nationalresearch funding agencies as well as by the EuropeanCommission.

Professor George Nasinyama is DeputyDirector (Research and Publications),School of Graduate Studies, MakerereUniversity and Associate Professor ofEpidemiology, Veterinary Public Health andPreventive Medicine at Makerere. He is alsoTeam Leader of the Kampala UrbanAgriculture, Food Security and LivestockCoordinating Committee. From 1999 to

2006 he was Head of the Department of Veterinary PublicHealth and Preventive Medicine at Makerere. His researchareas are risk assessment, food safety, epidemiology ofinfectious diseases of food animals and zoonoses, andecosystem health. He received his PhD from the University ofGuelph, Ontario, Canada, and his MSc (Veterinary PreventativeMedicine) from the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

Dr Eimear Barrett is the health researcher for the Irish-African Partnership for Research Capacity Building and is

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based in Queen’s University Belfast. Shewas awarded a PhD in molecular biologyfrom University of Ulster in 2006 and spenttwo years as a scientific advisor for an Irishclinical diagnostics company before joiningthe IAP in 2008. Her interests includemolecular diagnostics, infectious diseaseand health promotion.

Mr Peter McEvoy is the Irish-AfricanPartnership’s Project Manager. He has over20 years experience as a developmentpractitioner, managing internationalprojects and programmes, especially in theareas of human resource development,training, organisational analysis, capacitybuilding, monitoring and evaluation. Beforejoining the IAP team, he worked extensively

(in 25 countries) as an independent development consultanton behalf of missionary bodies, NGOs, bilateral donors and theEuropean Commission. He has also served with Irish Aid as in-country programme coordinator in Lesotho. A graduate ofQueen's University Belfast, he is the holder of a higher degr eein Economics and Public Policy from Trinity College Dublin.

Mr Jim Wells MLA has represented SouthDown as a Democratic Unionist PartyMember of the Northern Ireland Assemblysince 1998 (he was also the Assemblymanfor the constituency from 1982 to 1986). Heis Chairman of the Assembly’s All-PartyGroup on International Development. Hehas also served on the Assembly'sEnterprise, Trade and Investment

Committee and is the DUP representative on the AssemblyCommission - the body which manages the Stormont buildingand its staff. He is also the secretary of the DUP AssemblyGroup at Stormont, and a member of Down District Councilfor the Ballynahinch area. He is a town planner by profession,and working through his constituency offices in Ballynahinch,Kilkeel and Rathfriland, has represented constituents atnumerous planning appeals, social security tribunals, DLAreviews and established a reputation as a very effective publicrepresentative. He is a member of all thr ee Loyal Orders.

Dr Consolata Kabonesa is a SeniorLecturer and Head of the Department ofWomen and Gender Studies in the Facultyof Social Sciences at Makerere University inKampala. Dr. Kabonesa teaches a widerange of courses that focus on humanrights, peace and conflict transformationfrom a gender perspective; genderfocussed research methodology;

theoretical perspectives on women and gender, and genderand social representation. She has over 10 years ofexperience as a gender analyst and r esearcher, gender trainer,and facilitator in areas of gender, land, health, employmentand human rights. Areas of research interest include humandevelopment and gender; women and human rights;employment rights for women; gender and health, particularlyHIV/AIDS; gender and land tenure systems in Uganda andtheir effects on women’s productivity. She holds a PhD inHuman and Community Development; an MSc in Human

Development and Family Studies from the University of Illinois;and an MA in English and American Literature and a HigherDiploma in Education from University College Dublin.

Dr Agnes Nyomora lectures in theCollege of Applied and Natural Sciences atUniversity of Dar es Salaam. She workswith five partners in Africa, India and theUK on Project PISCES (Policy InnovationSystems for Clean Energy Security), whichaims to increase knowledge andunderstanding of the policy trade-offbetween security, energy-food and water

for the rural livelihood in relation to energy. She is also aresearcher for PUMPSEA (Peri-urban mangrove forests asfilters and potential phytoremediators of domestic sewage inEast Africa) which intends to demonstrate the efficiency ofmangrove wetlands as filters of domestic sewage along thecoast of East Africa. This is an international project involving12 institutions and four subcontractors from nine countries:Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Kenya, Mozambique,Portugal, Sweden and Tanzania. The project is funded by theEuropean Commission through its 6th Framework Programme.

Professor Frank Convery is HeritageTrust Professor of Environmental Policy andDirector of the Urban Institute Ireland atUniversity College Dublin. He is alsoChairperson of the Sustainable EnergyAuthority of Ireland. He has been involvedin numerous successful European researchprojects, including as coordinator of thenetworks CATEP (Concerted Action on

Emissions Trading) and CAMBI (Market Based Instruments). Asa member of the Scientific Committee of the EuropeanEnvironment Agency (EEA), he chaired the committeeoverseeing the Agency’s reports on the uses of environmentaltaxation and voluntary approaches in environmental policy. Inthe forthcoming EEA report on the use of economicinstruments, he leads the team addressing emissions trading.He is President of the European Association of Environmentaland Resource Economists, and a member of the High LevelGroup of Economists chaired jointly by the EuropeanCommission’s Director General, Environment, and the Directorof the EEA. He is a member of the Working Group on theRevision of National Emission Ceilings (NEC) and PolicyInstruments, tasked with advising the Commission on therevision of the NEC Directive.

Professor Myles Wickstead CBE wasHead of Secretariat to the Commission forAfrica (CfA), whose report ‘Our CommonInterest’ formed the basis of the G8Gleneagles Communique on Africa in 2005.The Commission has in September 2010produced a follow-up Report – ‘Still OurCommon Interest’ – to report on progressagainst the CfA’s recommendations.

Professor Wickstead, now visiting Professor (InternationalRelations) at the Open University, has a long involvement withAfrica. Between 1993 and 1997 he was based in Nairobi asHead of the British Development Division in Eastern Africa,responsible for British Government development programmes

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in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. He coordinated the 1997Government White Paper Eliminating World Poverty: AChallenge for the 21st Century; served on the board of theWorld Bank (and as Development Counsellor at the BritishEmbassy) in Washington from 1997 to 2000; and from 2000 to2004 was based in Addis Ababa as British Ambassador toEthiopia and Djibouti.

Mr Tom Arnold has been Chief Executiveof Concern Worldwide since 2001. He waspreviously Assistant Secretary General andChief Economist in the Department ofAgriculture and Food in Ireland. He workedfor the European Commission for 10 years,three of which were in Africa. He wasChairman of the Organisation of EconomicCo-operation and Development (OECD)

committee for agriculture (1993-1998). He served on the UNMillennium Project’s Hunger Task Force (2003-05), and was amember of the Irish Hunger Task Force (2007-08) and the UN’sCentral Emergency Response Fund’s (CERF) Advisory Group(2006-09). He was Chairman of the European F ood SecurityGroup (EFSG), a network of 40 European NGOs engaged infood security work, between 2005 and 2010. Mr Arnold waselected in 2010 to the nine member boar d of the ConsultativeGroup for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), chargedwith leading the reform of the international agricultureresearch system. He is a member of the International F oodPolicy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) advisory Board. He is also amember of the Trust governing the Irish Times and was amember of the Irish Government’s Commission on Taxation(2008-09).

Professor A Z Mattee is currentlyAssociate Professor in the Department ofAgricultural Education and Extension,Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro,Tanzania. He holds a BSc in GeneralAgriculture from University of Dar esSalaam, and an MSc and PhD in Continuingand Vocational Education from University ofWisconsin, Madison. He has taught a range

of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in agriculturaleducation, agricultural extension and rural development atSokoine University.In addition to teaching, he has been Head ofthe Department of Agricultural Education and Extension fornine years; Associate Dean in the Faculty of Agriculture for sixyears; founding Director of Centre for Sustainable RuralDevelopment for seven years, and Director of theDevelopment Studies Institute for three years. He is alsoinvolved in consultancy and advisory work for theGovernment, donor organisations and NGOs.

Professor Jane Wilde CBE was thefounding Director and has been ChiefExecutive of the Institute of Public Health inIreland since 1998. The IPHI promotescooperation between Northern Ireland andthe Republic of Ireland by identifyingpractical ways to improve the health ofpeople in both jurisdictions. Its remitincludes research and information, capacity

building and policy advice. Its focus is on health inequalitiesand building links between research and policy. Dr Wilde is a

consultant in public health with over 30 years experience ,focussing on public health policy, social determinants of healthand action to tackle health inequalities. She has contributed toa wide range of cross government committees in Ir eland andthe UK ranging from housing, agriculture and food safety toconsumer affairs and poverty. She has co-directed variousWorld Health Organisation programmes in Northern Ireland.She is an honorary professor at Queen’s University Belfast andvisiting professor at the University of Ulster.

Professor Richard Barnett has been ViceChancellor of the University of Ulster since2006. He joined the university in 1990 whenhe was appointed Professor of PublicFinance and Management, and has heldappointments as Head of School, Dean, andPro Vice Chancellor (Teaching andLearning). Before joining Ulster, ProfessorBarnett held academic appointments at the

Universities of Salford and York and at the Queen’s University,Ontario. He has also held the Vivienne Stewart VisitingFellowship at the University of Cambridge and been a VisitingScholar at Wolfson College, Cambridge. His publications focuson the applied aspects of economics, especially inter-governmental fiscal relations. He is currently a Non-ExecutiveDirector of Bombardier Aerospace (Belfast), a Member of theBoard of the Northern Ireland Science Park Foundation, and aMember of the Department for Employment and Learning’ sEmployment and Skills Advisory Group. In 2008-09 he chairedthe Independent Review of Economic Policy set up by the NIMinister for Enterprise, Trade and Investment.

Ms Máire Matthews is a SeniorDevelopment Specialist in Irish Aid. Sheworks as policy adviser in the PublicInformation and Development EducationSection and manages Irish Aid’s Programmeof Strategic Cooperation with HigherEducation Institutions. Prior to joining IrishAid in 2003, she worked for four years asthe Coordinator of the National Committee

for Development Education. She worked for the Irish NGO,Concern, from 1976 until 1998 in a r ange of roles includingDevelopment Education. She holds an MA in DevelopmentManagement from the Open University and an MA inCommunications and Cultural Studies from Dublin City University.

Professor Christopher Kamlongera isthe Principal of Chancellor College,University of Malawi. He is Professor ofDrama at the college. He was RegionalDirector of the Southern AfricanDevelopment Community Centre ofCommunication for Development based inHarare, Zimbabwe from 1997 to 2007. Priorto this appointment he was the founding

Director of the Malawi Institute of Journalism. He has publishedseveral books and articles on African theatre, English languageand literature, and communication for development. He holdsa BA from University of Mala wi; an MA in Drama and TheatreArts; and a PhD from University of Leeds.

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Professor Brian O’Connell has beenRector and Vice-Chancellor of theUniversity of the Western Cape in SouthAfrica since 2001. His career as a teacher,professor and education administratorspans 39 years. He holds undergraduatedegrees from the University of the WesternCape and the University of South Africa,and postgraduate degrees from Columbia

University in New York. After seven years in the school system,followed by three years as Rector of a College of Education, hewas appointed Director of the School of Education atPeninsula Technikon in 1991. In 1994 he became acting Vice-Rector with responsibility for Student Affairs at Pentech. In1995 he was appointed Head of the Western Cape EducationDepartment, responsible for more than 2,000 educationinstitutions, including 18 technical colleges. ProfessorO’Connell has published essays and articles on a wide r angeof educational matters with an emphasis on leadership ,transformation and the legacy of apartheid. He has chairedmany community organizations and served on many boards,including the South African Qualifications Authority. Hecurrently chairs the Community Chest, an affiliate of the UnitedWay International, and the Institute for Justice andReconciliation.

Dr Damtew Teferra is the former directorfor Africa and the Middle East of the F ordFoundation International FellowshipsProgram, based at the Institute ofInternational Education in New York. He is aformer Associate Research Professor ofHigher Education at the Center forInternational Higher Education, BostonCollege. He was founding Editor-in-Chief of

the Journal of Higher Education in Africa. He is the author ofmany books on African higher education, including ScientificCommunication in African Universities: External Assistance andNational Needs (2003). He was lead editor of the a ward-winning African Higher Education: An International ReferenceHandbook (2003) and of African Higher Education: TheInternational Dimension (2008). In 2003 he established thewebsite International Network for Higher Education in Africa,intended for use by scholars, experts, practitioners, policymakers, funders, students, and others engaged in researchand development related to higher education in Africa. Heholds a PhD from Boston College, an MPhil from University of Stirling, Scotland, and a BSc from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.

Mr Michael Hörig is in charge, within theEuropean University Association’s HigherEducation Policy Unit, of work on wideningaccess, lifelong learning, qualificationsframeworks, innovative teaching and theBologna process. He currently manages the‘Shaping Inclusive and ResponsiveUniversity Strategies’ project and is closelyinvolved with the implementation of the

‘Access to Success: Fostering trust and exchange betweenEurope and Africa’ project. Mr Hörig has been a member ofseveral Bologna working groups and the ECTS Users Guidedrafting group. Before joining the EUA in 2006, he was involvedin ESIB – the National Unions of Students in Europe –representing the students’ interests in the Bologna Process. He

also worked for three years as a communication andinternational officer at the National Union of Students inFlanders. He has a Masters in Political Science/ InternationalRelations from Ghent University, Belgium.

Dr Garry Aslanyan joined the SpecialProgramme on Research and Training onTropical Diseases (TDR) of the World HealthOrganization (WHO) as Portfolio PolicyManager in 2009. He is responsible fordevelopment of that programme’s policyframeworks, including TDR's collaborationswith six WHO regional offices and thecoordination of ESSENCE, an initiative of

research funders. Prior to this, Dr Aslanyan spent two years atthe Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) as PrincipalAdvisor of the International Public Health Division, developingPHAC's relations with key organizations such as WHO. From2001 to 2007, Dr. Aslanyan worked as the Senior Health Advisorand later Team Leader of the Health Systems, Research andAnalysis group at the Canadian International DevelopmentAgency (CIDA) where he was responsible for development ofCIDA’s policies in the health sector, including immunization,communicable and non-communicable disease prevention andcontrol, and health research. He is an Adjunct Professor ininternational health at the University of Otta wa’s Faculty ofMedicine. He is trained in dentistry, public health and healthpolicy and systems.

WHAT IS THE IAP?

The Irish-African Partnership for Research CapacityBuilding (IAP for short) (www.irishafricanpartnership.ie) is apartnership of all nine universities on the island of Ir eland withUniversity of Malawi, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane(Mozambique), University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) andMakerere University (Uganda). It is largely funded by Irish Aid(the Irish Government’s development cooperation agency) withsome matching funding from Universities Ireland (the networkwhich brings together the universities on the island of Ir eland).It promotes institutional collaboration for development-relatedknowledge generation, knowledge exchange and mutuallearning. Since its inception in autumn 2007, the project hassought to broaden and enrich research collaboration betweenIreland and Africa. It is now widely recognised as fulfilling acrucial coordinating role for the collective contribution tointernational development among the universities in Ir elandand Northern Ireland. Its niche of institutional-level capacitybuilding represents an organisational commitment by the Irishand Northern Irish higher education sector, over and above the myriad research and postgraduate projects in whichfaculties, schools, institutes and individual researchers engage bilaterally.

The IAP works at one remove from implementation of actualresearch projects, for example by supporting the Southernpartners in creating and strengthening their researchsupport functions, in order more effectively to relate theirresearch priorities to poverty reduction and nationaldevelopment objectives. Recognition of the value ofincorporating community consultation processes and policylevel interfaces into research design are also emphasised.

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Underlying the creation of the IAP was a r ecognition thatresearch needed to become increasingly multi-disciplinary torespond meaningfully to the over-arching and urgent globalchallenges of our time, such as poverty reduction, foodsecurity and climate change. IAP’s priority areas thus reflectthe thematic and cross-cutting priorities of Irish Aid and theMillennium Development Goals (MDGs), such as health,education, gender, environment and ICT.

Project activities are grouped around five distinct workstreams conducted by joint Irish/African work teams:

• Development of understanding of the complex issuesinvolved in research capacity building within the partneruniversities through an in-depth Stakeholder Consultationexercise;

• Organising an International Summer School (in Universityof Malawi in March 2010) around institutional capacitybuilding issues such as research funding, research training,research management, research bid writing, research

infrastructure (ICT) and human resources, anddisseminating these learning modules though publicationof a resource book and DVD;

• Identification of priority research needs in the two corethematic areas of Health and Education;

• Development of a set of Metrics by which r esearchcapacity building may be measured;

• Development of an Irish-African Web Portal(www.irishafricanpartnership.ie) which links the universitypartners in a virtual community and which provides avehicle for showcasing development research andinformation through a digital repository.

The Queen’s University workshop/conference is the fifth andfinal workshop during the IAP’s first phase, which will end inspring 2011. The other workshops were held in Dublin CityUniversity (April 2008); Entebbe, Uganda (November 2008);Maputo, Mozambique (May 2009); and Chancellor College,Zomba, Malawi (March 2010).

IAP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEProfessor Ronnie Munck

Dublin City University, Co-Chair

Professor Eli Katunguka-RwakishayaMakerere University, Co-Chair

Professor Sean FarrenUniversity of Ulster, Co-Chair

Professor Joseph TeshaUniversity of Dar es Salaam, Co-Chair

Professor Mamudo IsmailUniversidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique

Professor Jane GrimsonTrinity College Dublin

Professor Frank KeeQueen’s University Belfast

Professor John SakaUniversity of Malawi

Professor Peadar Cremin/Professor Michael HealyMary Immaculate College Limerick

Professor James PhelanUniversity College Dublin

Dr Diarmuid O’DonovanNational University of Ireland Galway

Dr Paul ConwayUniversity College Cork

Dr G Honor FaganNational University of Ireland Maynooth

Professor Kevin T RyanUniversity of Limerick

Mr Andy PollakCentre for Cross Border Studies/Universities Ireland

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*Participating higher education institutions: Makerere University (Uganda), University of Malawi, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane(Mozambique), University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Trinity College Dublin, Queen’s University Belfast, Dublin City University,Mary Immaculate College/University of Limerick, University College Dublin, University of Ulster, National University of Ireland

Galway, National University of Ireland Maynooth, University College Cork, Centre for Cross Border Studies.

THE IRISH-AFRICAN PARTNERSHIP’S TEN CORE PRINCIPLES

Poverty reduction the overall aim

Empowerment of women a key principle

Must respond to community needs and involve communities

Must build capacity while doing research

Need to undertake translational research

Research needs to be relevant to policy and practice

Research should be participatory where possible

Research should be problem oriented and trans-disciplinary

Development research should use innovative methodologies

Research should always lead to good dissemination of results

Participants at the fourth IAP workshop and summer school in Chancellor College,University of Malawi, in March 2010.

CONTACTS

Professor Ronnie Munck (DCU) Co-Chair, Executive CommitteeTel: +353 (0)1 700 7898 Mobile: +353 (0)87 122 4721 Email: [email protected]

Professor Eli Katunguka-Rwakishaya (Makerere), Co-Chair, Executive CommitteeTel: +256 41 530983 (O) Tel: +256 41 540564 (H) Mobile: +256 772754685 Email: [email protected]

Professor Seán Farren (University of Ulster) Co-Chair, Executive CommitteeTel: +44 (0) 28 9127 9279 Email: [email protected]

Professor Joseph Tesha (University of Dar es Salaam) Co-Chair, Executive CommitteeTel: +255 5222 410743 Email: [email protected]

Professor Frank Kee (Queen’s University Belfast)Tel: +44 (0) 28 9063 2596 Email: [email protected]

Mr Peter McEvoy (DCU) Project ManagerTel: +353 (0) 1 700 5635 Mobile: + 353 (0) 87 688 7045 Email: [email protected]

Ms Patricia McAllister (CCBS) Workshop OrganiserTel: +44 (0)28 3751 8282 Email: [email protected]

Ms Caitriona Fitzgerald, Project AdministratorTel: + 353 (0) 1 700 8804 Email: [email protected]

Malone Lodge Hotel, 60 Eglantine Avenue, Belfast BT9 6DYTel: +44 (0)28 9038 8060

www.malonelodgehotelbelfast.com

Days Inn, 40 Hope Street, Belfast BT12 5EETel: +44 (0)28 9024 2494

[email protected]

WEBSITE

www.irishafricanpartnership.ie

The Irish-African Partnership for Research Capacity Building is funded by Irish Aid through the Higher EducationAuthority, with some matching funding from Universities Ireland, the network which brings together the nine

universities on the island of Ireland

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