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Agenda (February 12, 2005)

Tentative Program

Note that the first session in every group (panels 1, 3, 5 and 7) are in MacKirdy Hall and the second session (panels 2, 4, 6 and 8) are in the chapel.

8:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-9:40 Keynote address: Lynnita Weber, Program Director for Fellowship for African Relief, Sudan, “Grassroots development in the face of Africa’s humanitarian crises.”

9:45- 10:45

Panel 1. Universities, CIDA, and grassroots development (Chair: Erin Nelson)

Annika Allman, “CIDA: What’s on the horizon?”

Leela Ramachandran, “Institutionalizing Participatory Learning: The Role of Vietnamese Agricultural Universities in Local Development.”

• PowerPoint Presentation by Leela Ramachandran - (9,202Kb)

Neha Chugh, “Paulo Freire: putting theory into practice.”

Panel 2. Community health (Chair: Jen McGowan)

Lisa Limarzi, “The necessity of water: ‘healthy communities’ model.”

• PowerPoint Presentation by Lisa Limarzi - (981Kb)

Nathan James Engler and Brent Hall, “Malaria and children’s educational outcomes in Peru.”

• PowerPoint Presentation by Nathan James Engler and Brent Hall - (800Kb)

Maeghan Ray, “HIV/AIDS and women in Sub-Saharan Africa.”

10:45-11:00 Break

11:00-12:15

Panel 3. Sustainable development: local initiatives (Chair: Elizabeth Mensah)

Sami Rehman, “Conservation and development: moving towards sustainable development.”

• PowerPoint Presentation by Sami Rehman - (361Kb)

Nicholas Arsenault, “Fog water collection in Guatemala.”

Avril Bundal, “Rural development in China: a case study of ‘ecological villages’ in Sanya City.”

Ben Greenhouse, “What characteristics of rural communities influence the success of community energy projects? A case study from China.”

Panel 4. Reforming the public and private sectors (Chair: Magda Wyszomierska)

Muhammad Safdar, “Political and administrative reform in Pakistan.”

Sarah Lewis, “Bank reform within the World Bank Structural Adjustment Program: coping with financial insecurity in Cameroon.”

Cheryl Yan, “New paradigms vs. old: analyzing the importance of macro-micro relationship: Bolivia’s Law of Popular Participation.”

Howie Bender, “Bolivia’s Law of Popular Participation: intended and unintended effects.”

• PowerPoint Presentation by Howie Bender - (143Kb)

12:15-1:15 Lunch & NGO Fair

1:15-2:30

Panel 5. Communities, land, and environment (Chair: Cheryl Yan)

Faith Mansfield, “Local Initiatives: the Movements of Rural Landless Workers (MST) in Brazil.”

• PowerPoint Presentation by Faith Mansfield - (1,649Kb)

Yiming Wang, “The political ecology of illegal farm leasing in China’s urban periphery: a case from Haikou.”

Nathania Ho, “Economic Reform in China: Township Village Enterprises”

Jason Hildebrandt, “Oil and communities: the political ecology of the Niger Delta.”

Panel 6. Information technology for development (Chair: Yaacov Iland)

Sonya Konzak, “Partnerships for technological capacity building: computers for schoolchildren in Ghana.”

Juan Pablo Alperin and Brent Hall, “GIS and the evaluation of early childhood education quality in Peru.”

• PowerPoint Presentation by Juan Pablo Alperin and Brent Hall - (3,339Kb)

Adina Gillespie, Philip Howarth and Steffanie Scott, “Satellite imagery: applications and implications in developing countries.”

Candace Newman, “Remote sensing technologies and the use of reef resources in Indonesia.”

2:30-2:45 Break

2:45-4:05

Panel 7. Urban development, democracy, and social problems (Chair: Howie Bender)

Alison Wolanski, “Architecture and resistance in Accra, Ghana.”

• PowerPoint Presentation by Alison Wolanski - (5,256Kb)

Magda Wyszomierska, “South Africa’s democracy at a crossroads.”

Vanessa Nicolas, “Street children of Mexico.”

Nelson Barbosa, “The cycle of poverty and delinquency in Brazilian cities.”

Panel 8. Food security and biotechnology (Chair: Monica Pukas)

Anne Griffith, “Seasonal food vulnerability and vegetable commodity markets in Western Province, Kenya.”

Erin Nelson, “Cuban agriculture: synergy and sustainability.”

Ainslee Emerson, “Eradicating food insecurity in Africa: will genetically modified organisms alleviate the hunger crisis?

Erin Rogozinski, “Agricultural technology in development assistance: a sustainability approach to decision making.”

• PowerPoint Presentation by Erin Rogozinski - (211Kb)

4:05-4:45 Anil Gupta, CIDA Environmental Policy Branch, “CIDA’s Role in International Development”

• PowerPoint Presentation by Anil Gupta - (1,009Kb)

4:45-5:15 Gail Cuthbert-Brandt, UW International Development Initiatives

Everyone: Evaluation and suggestions for next year

5:15-6:00 Socializing and African music & dance performance by "Jiwani" (from Guelph)