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Judith Tukahirwa was granted a full scholarship by Wageningen University and Research Centre to participate in the 2nd Executive Education Course on Sustainable Development Diplomacy (SDD) that took place from 6 to 20 June 2010. This course was jointly organized by the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University in Boston, Wageningen University and Research Centre from the Netherlands (WUR), the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV), in cooperation with the Sustainability Challenge Foundation (SCF).
Mrs.Tukahirwa also won a Marie Curie grant for the Summer School “Architectures for Earth System Governance – the Distributional Implications of Environmental Change and Governance”, scheduled to take place on October 4-13, 2010 in Berlin. This grant was also awarded folllowing a rigorous selection of a great number of candidatures by a two-stage review procedure. At the subsequent conference of 'Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change', Mrs.Tukahirwa will also present a paper on her PROVIDE research. At this conference two other PhD researchers: Mrs. Christine Majale and Mrs. Aisa Soloman will attend and present as well.
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Last March, the 25th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management held in Philadelphia (USA) was also attended by three PROVIDE researchers.
With participants from five continents, this interdisciplinary conference was a useful forum for learning. Technology related topics on solid waste included energy recovery; landfill management; hazardous and industrial waste technologies; and recycling and collection matters. Policy related topics covered issues as solid waste policy; public involvement and education; integrated management and innovative research.
The Provide group got a platform to disseminate information and knowledge on the Modernized Mixtures Approach. The presented topics were solid waste management at the household level (Mrs.Aisa Solomon), the contribution of CBOs and NGOs to SWM (Mrs.Judith Tukahirwa) and municipal level waste policy in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania (Mrs. Christine Majale). Valuable feedbacks and an interesting discussion followed the presentations. The main interest was targeted towards the integration of social and technical aspects in the different waste management problems, the role of CBOs and NGOs in slum settlements and the SWM cooperation of municipalities at the regional level. |
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HonPrime minister of Kenya, Raila Odinga, has announced that the inhabitants of Kibera will be relocated in Nairobi in the coming 3-5 years. The initiative was demonstrated with the relocation of hte first 1500 inhabitants from soweto East Zona A on 16 September 2009. |
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Spaargaren, Gert, Peter Oosterveer, Joost van Buuren and Arthur P.J. Mol (2005) Mixed Modernities: towards viable environmental infrastructure development is East Africa. Position Paper. Wageningen; Environmental Policy Group. The rapidly growing urban centres in East Africa are facing major problems in clean water, sanitation and solid waste management, as also has been acknowledged in formulating the Millennium Development Goals. Solving this challenge requires an integrated approach that deviates both from the well-known western large-scale high-technological grid-based systems, as well as from the familiar small-scale, low-tech, decentralized technologies. Such a modernized mixtures approach combines (eco)technological, economic, social and governance dimensions of new environmental infrastructures, simultaneously developed at different scales, against the background of the specific context of East African cities.
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The PhD research of Mr. Thobias Bigambo (member of the PROVIDE program) received a funding of EUR 13,000 from the foundation Aqua for All for the construction of a sanitary biogas plant at Mbezi High school in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. |
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