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2nd Quarterly Newsletter
From face2face to online learning / Meet Danida fellows during the lockdown / An opportunity for a new growth path in South Africa
A trying period for all
The global CORONA/ Covid-19 pandemic has had direct effects on Danida Fellowship Centre’s work. It has been a trying period and we have to continue to be patient. Director Ulla Næsby Tawiah talks about the measures Danida Fellowship Centre has taken.
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Online learning
From face2face to online learning
When Beatrice logs on in Mexico City at 7 am it is 5 pm in Kathmandu and 2 pm in Copenhagen. Online courses have their advantages, but peer to peer learning, where everyone is in the same place, is hard to beat, says Hans Peter Dejgaard, Strengthening Policy Dialogue’s Course Coordinator.
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Amanda Ngwenya
Meet the fellows
Starting with Amanda Ngwenya, you will meet some of 1,000+ Danida fellows who - under normal circumstances - come to Denmark annually. We hope it will offer an insight into the everyday life of Danida fellows during the pandemic.
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Man with plastic mask
Danida alum Peter Okwoko melts plastic waste into Covid-19 face shields
Peter Okwoko and his colleague Page Balcom hit the headlines in East Africa, when they began to use plastic waste to produce face shields for the local health centres and hospitals in Gulu, Uganda.
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Windfarm in South Africa
Covid-19 crisis: An opportunity for a new growth path in South Africa
Professor Mike Morris, from the Danida funded TENTRANS research project, uses the COVID lockdown shock to present research findings from investigations into South Africa’s Renewable Energy Programme (REIPPPP).
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Early impact of Corona in Bangladesh's apparel
The early impacts of the coronavirus on Bangladesh’s apparel supply chain
Researchers working on the Danida supported project, “The Regulation of International Supply Chains (RISC)”, outline some of the early issues and developments relating to the impact of the corona virus on Bangladesh’s apparel industry and its supply chain.
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Mariano and Sergio
A Danida Fellowship Centre course helps Buenos Aires develop a climate action plan
In this second video in our series about the strategic sector cooperation between the municipalities of Buenos Aires and Copenhagen, we follow Mariano and Sergio from Argentina during their stay in Denmark. Here they take their first steps in the development of an action plan that will make the Argentinian capital greener.
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Flory Kessy
Farewell to Flora Kessy
It is with great sadness that we have learned about the passing of Flora Kessy, Executive Director of the Tanzanian Training Centre for International Health. We have lost a smart, visionary, witty and dedicated colleague and friend.
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Development research report
The Evaluation of Danida’s Support to Development Research (2008-18) is out
The overall purpose of the evaluation is to help shape future support to development research; conducting and encouraging high quality, useful research that strengthens capacities and knowledge for development.
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Heidi and Christine
Welcome to new staff
Welcome to Ms Heidi Adler Berggren, our new Project Coordinator, and to Christine Bystøl, our new Alumni Programme Office.
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