THE IRISH‐AFRICAN PARTNERSHIP FOR RESEARCH CAPACITY BUILDING

MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE Opened by

Professor Filipé José Couto, Rector, Universidad Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique Mr Frank Sheridan, Irish Ambassador to Mozambique Mr Andrew Soper, British High Commissioner to Mozambique Dr Michael Murphy, President, University College Cork, Ireland Dr Aires Bonifácio Ali, HE the Minister for Education and Culture, Mozambique

The Third Workshop ‐ Hotel Cardoso, Maputo, Mozambique Programme

11‐14th May 2009

PROGRAMME

Day 1: Monday 11th May

Salao Bayette

Chair: Professor Orlando Quilambo, Vice‐Rector for Academic Affairs, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM)

8.30‐9.15 Registration

9.15 – 10.00 Welcome and opening Professor Filipe José Couto, Rector, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane Mr Frank Sheridan, Irish Ambassador in Mozambique Mr Andrew Soper, High Commissioner, British High Commission to Mozambique Dr Michael Murphy, President, University College Cork Dr Aires Bonifácio Ali, HE the Minister for Education and Culture, Mozambique

10.00‐11.00 Introductions by participating universities

11.00‐11.30 Refreshments

11.30‐12.00 Project overview and progress; overview of workshop programme Dr Niamh Gaynor, Director, Irish‐African Partnership for Research Capacity Building (IAP)

12.00‐12.45 Questions and discussion

12.45‐2.00 Lunch

2.00‐2.20 Concepts of development for poverty reduction Professor Edward Webster, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

2.20‐2.40 Lessons from development research: Case studies from Mozambique Professor Baltazar Chilundo, Faculty of Medicine, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane Professor Francisco Januario, Faculty of Education, UEM

2.40‐3.30 Research for development within HEIs: Group work Introduced by Dr Michael Murphy, President, University College Cork Facilitated by Professor Edward Webster, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg:  What are the benefits and downsides of globalisation for development and poverty reduction?  Is economic growth sufficient for development and poverty reduction?  What is the role of knowledge production in development and poverty reduction?

3.30‐4.15 Feedback from group discussions

4.15‐4.30 Close

17.30 – 19.30 Welcome cocktail (offered by Universidade Eduardo Mondlane at Fortaleza)

Light refreshments will be available in the Salao Bayette from 3.30pm

A working group of 4 – 5 participants will be asked to distil the key points of the day for brief presentation the following morning.

Day 2: Tuesday, 12th May

Salao Bayette

Chair: Dr G Honor Fagan, Dean of Graduate Studies, National University of Ireland Maynooth

9.30‐9.40 Presentation on key points emerging from previous day’s sessions (presentation by representative of working group)

9.40‐10.00 Discussion/comments

10.00‐12.30 Gender as a constraint to Research Capacity Building within Higher Education Institutions: Learning from institutional experiences in tackling this (training session) Dr Consolata Kabonesa, Makerere University, Uganda.

11.00‐11.15 Refreshments (available in Salao Bayette)

12.30‐1.30 Lunch

1.30‐2.00 Travel to Universidade Eduardo Mondlane

2.00‐4.00 Meetings with academics in the Faculties of Medicine and Education

6.00‐8.00 DESENVOLVIMENTO NA ÁFRICA NO SÉCULO 21: DESAFIOS E OPORTUNIDADES DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA IN THE 21ST CENTURY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Public seminar at the Faculty of Medicine, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (this seminar will be in Portuguese) Chair: Ms Generosa Cossa José, UEM

 Professor Edward Webster, University of Witwatersrand (Development in Africa – A South African Perspective)  Professor Carlos Nuno Castel Branco (Development in Mozambique)  Professor Ronaldo Munck, Dublin City University (Development in Africa – An Irish Perspective)

A working group of 4 – 5 participants will be asked to distil the key points of the day for brief presentation the following morning.

Day 3: Wednesday, 13th May

Salao Bayette

Chair: Professor Sean Farren, University of Ulster

9.30‐9.45 Presentation on key points emerging from previous day’s sessions (presentation by representative of working group)

9.45‐10.15 Presentations on key points emerging from previous day’s meetings in UEM

10.15‐10.45 Priority themes in health and education research: presentation of draft Foresight Report Professor Ronaldo Munck, Dr Eimear Barrett, Dr Mary Goretti Nakabugo and Dr Niamh Gaynor

10.45‐11.00 Questions and discussion

11.00‐11.15 Refreshments

11.15‐1.00 From foresight to Research Capacity Building in health and education: group work Facilitated by Dr Diarmuid O’Donovan, Professor Sean Farren, Dr Eimear Barrett and Dr Mary Goretti Nakabugo

1.00‐1.15 Showing of DVD of Irish African Partnership website

1.15‐2.15 Lunch

2.15‐3.00 Feedback from groups

3.00‐3.30 Prioritisation of RCB themes for the IAPRCB: Plenary session

3.30‐4.15 Panel response to foresight Professor Orlando Quilambo, UEM; Professor Eli Katunguka‐Rwakishaya, Makerere University; Professor Peadar Cremin, Mary Immaculate College/University of Limerick

4.15‐5.00 Brief presentations on other partner projects

5.00‐5.015 Close

A working group of 4 – 5 participants will be asked to distil the key points of the day for brief presentation the following morning.

7.30 Official workshop dinner in Café Acasia, Hotel Cardoso, Maputo

Day 4: Thursday, 14th May

Salao Bayette

Chair: Professor Saida Yahya‐Othman, University of Dar es Salaam

9.30‐9.45 Presentation on key points emerging from previous day’s sessions (presentation by representative of working group)

9.45‐10.00 The role of higher education in development and poverty reduction: Linking research and policy Introduced by Professor Saida Yahya‐Othman, Professor Ronaldo Munck and Dr Niamh Gaynor

10.00‐10.45 Plenary discussion

10.45‐11.00 Coffee

Chair: Professor John Saka, Chancellor College, University of Malawi

11.00‐12.45 Planning for Malawi summer school: Matters arising and future tasks Dr Niamh Gaynor, Professor John Saka

12.45‐1.00 Evaluation and close

1.00‐2.00 Lunch

SPEAKERS AND CHAIRPERSONS

Professor Dr Filipe Jose Couto is Rector of Universidade Eduardo Mondlane and President of the Council of the university. He is a former Lecturer in Pure Mathematics and hold PhDs in both dogmatic theology and in philosophy and social sciences. Universidade Eduardo Mondlane was founded in 1962 and was renamed after the first leader of Mozambique’s struggle for independence in 1976. It has ??????? students grouped into 13 schools and faculties: marine sciences, communication, agronomy and forest engineering, veterinary, arts and social sciences, hospitality and tourism, engineering, education, architecture, law, science, medicine and economics.

Professor Orlando Quilambo has been Vice‐Rector for Academic Affairs at UEM since 2005. A biologist by training, with a special interest in drought stress effects on plants and microorganisms to improve yields, he served for several years as Dean of the Faculty of Sciences and main researcher on a Dutch‐funded project aimed at improving the research capacity of the Department of Biological Sciences in that faculty.He was involved in the preparation of the university’s first Strategic Plan and of Mozambique’s National Science and Technology and Innovation Strategy. He has also served as Director for Research of UEM and for several years was responsible for evaluation and monitoring of projects funded by different donors at the university. Presently he has a special interest on research management.

Dr Michael Murphy became President of University College Cork in . A graduate of UCC's Medical School, he was appointed Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Head of the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at UCC in 1992. He became Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health in 2000 and Head of the College of Medicine and Health in 2006. Dr. Murphy previously held senior positions at the University of Chicago and at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London. Dr. Murphy's external leadership roles have included membership of many international and domestic professional organisations, including government and industrial advisory panels. His board memberships have included the Irish Health Service Executive and the Health Research Board of Ireland.

Dr Niamh Gaynor is Director of the Irish African Partnership for Research Capacity Building and is based in Dublin City University. She holds an MSc in Rural Development from University College Dublin and a PhD in Sociology from NUI Maynooth. Dr Gaynor has worked, both for the German development cooperation agency GTZ and on a consultancy basis, in a range of countries in Africa. Her research interests include participation theory and practice, participatory and partnership governance, and the politics of development and social change.

Professor Edward Webster is Professor of Sociology in the Sociology of Work Unit (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand. He has degrees from Rhodes University, University of the Witwatersrand, York University and Oxford University. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1995. He is on the International Advisory Boards of the British Journal of Industrial Relations; Labour, Capital and Society; Work, Employment and Society and Labour Studies Journal. He co‐edited a volume with Karl von Holdt entitled Beyond the Apartheid Workplace: Studies in Transition (University of Kwa‐Zulu‐Natal Press). He is a past president of the Research Committee on Labour Movements of the International Sociological Association and an adjunct professor in the School of Business at the University of Western Australia. His most recent book, Grounding Globalisation: Labour in the Age of Insecurity, was published by Blackwells in May 2008.

Professor Baltazar Chilundo is currently the Coordinator of the Masters Programme in Public Health in Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, having previously been the Head of the Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane. He was awarded a PhD in 2004 from the Institute of Community Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway.

Professor Francisco Januário is Head of the Department of Science and Mathematics Education in the Faculty of Education at UEM. He holds a doctorate in Education from University of Pretoria. He is currently teaching research methodology, methods and assessment instruments, and assessment and quality control, and his research interests include teacher training, quality control, and the monitoring and evaluation of educational projects. With 21 years of teaching experience – 10 in higher education – Dr Januário was a previously a technician for curriculum development at the National Institute for Development of Education for six years.

Dr. G. Honor Fagan is Dean of Graduate Studies and a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She has previously lectured in sociology departments in Northern Ireland, South Africa and the UK. Her current research interests include globalisation and governance, civil society and conflict resolution, and e‐democracy. She has done field research on early school leavers in Dublin for her book Cultural Politics and Irish Early School Leavers: Constructing Political Identities (1995). She also has done field research on women in South African townships, which has been published in an array of articles on gender and development in leading scholarly journals and books. She has carried out European and national funded research projects on e‐ democracy. Most recently she is co‐author of Globalisation and Security: An Encyclopaedia (2009: Praeger Press).

Dr Consolata Kabonesa is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Women and Gender Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Makerere University in Kampala. Dr. Kabonesa teaches a wide range of courses that focus on human rights, peace and conflict transformation from a gender perspective; gender focussed research methodology; theoretical perspectives on women and gender, and gender and social representation. She has over 10 years of experience as a gender analyst and researcher, gender trainer, and facilitator in areas of gender, land, health, employment and human rights. Areas of research interest include human development and gender; women and human rights; employment rights for women; gender and health, particularly HIV/AIDS; gender and land tenure systems in Uganda and their effects on women’s productivity. She holds a PhD in Human 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 Higher Diploma in Education from University College Dublin.

Ms Generosa Cossa Jose is President of the Installation Commission of the recently approved Centre for Coordination of Gender Studies at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane. She has been a lecturer at UEM since 1987, teaching mathematics to students from several faculties and instructional planning and design to masters students in the Faculty of Education. She is a former head of the Department of Pure Mathematics in the Faculty of Mathematics. Her research interests are in the areas of ICT in education and gender issues; in 1998‐2001 she coordinated a research project which led to the creation of School Net Mozambique, connecting the country’s secondary schools for the first time via the Internet. She holds Master’s degrees in computer‐assisted education (University of Pretoria) and in mathematics (Byelorussian State University). She is Maputo City Secretary of the Mozambican Women’s Organisation and a member of the Maputo Municipal Assembly.

Professor Carlos Nuno Castel‐Branco is an Associate Professor of Economics at UEM, where he has been teaching for the past 15 years. He is Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Studies (IESE), an independent and interdisciplinary research institute focussing on development problems and public policy analysis. Prior to teaching, Mr. Castel‐Branco worked in public development policy analysis for 10 years. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford, a Master’s degree in Industrial Development and a Postgraduate Diploma in Development Economics from the University of East Anglia, UK.

Professor Sean Farren is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Ulster’s UNESCO Centre and Chairman of the Centre’s International Development Programme. A senior negotiator for the Social Democratic and Labour Party during the 1996‐98 negotiations in Northern Ireland, he was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998 and held ministerial positions in the NI power‐sharing Executive of 1999‐2002, first as Minister for Further and Higher Education and later as Minister for Finance and Personnel. He retired from politics in 2007. He is a graduate of University College Dublin (BA), Essex University (MA) and the University of Ulster (DPhil). He started his career as a secondary school teacher, teaching in Ireland, Switzerland and Sierra Leone before joining the Education Centre at the New University of Ulster in 1970 as a Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer. His research interests include curriculum studies, education in a divided society and the history of Irish education. He is the author of two books, several book chapters and many articles dealing with educational and political issues in Northern Ireland.

Professor Ronaldo Munck, who is Chair of the Executive Committee of the Irish‐African Partnership, is theme leader for internationalisation, interculturalism and social development at Dublin City University. Previously he was the first post‐apartheid Chair in Sociology at the University of Durban‐Westville in South Africa where he directed a major project on gender and empowerment. He has written widely on development issues, including Critical Development Theory: Contributions to a New Paradigm (London, Zed Books, 2000) and on his native Latin America, most recently Contemporary Latin America ( London, Palgrave 2008). His recent work has focused on the impact of globalisation in Globalisation and Labour: The new 'Great Transformation' (Zed Books, 2002); Globalization and Social Exclusion: A Transformationalist Perspective (Kumarian Press, 2005) and Globalization and Contestation: The new great counter‐movement (Routledge, 2007). He is currently working on globalisation and migration in Ireland and edits the e‐journal Translocations (www.translocations.ie).

Dr Eimear Barrett is the Health Researcher for the Irish‐African Partnership and is based in Queen’s University Belfast. She was awarded a PhD in molecular biology from University of Ulster in 2006 and spent two years as a Scientific Advisor for an Irish clinical diagnostics company before joining the IAP in 2008. Her interests include molecular diagnostics, infectious disease and health promotion.

Dr Mary Goretti Nakabugo is the Education Researcher for the Irish‐African Partnership, and is hosted by Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. Prior to relocating to Ireland she was Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Media in Makerere University, Uganda. She has extensive understanding of education development issues having trained in several leading African universities. She holds a Masters and PhD degree from the University of Cape Town and a BA in education from Makerere. Her research interests include curriculum reform, pedagogy, and assessment for learning, education development and international cooperation in education. She was a Visiting Professor to the Center for the Study of International Cooperation in Education, Hiroshima University, Japan in 2006. She is a member of the Society for Research in Higher Education and has undertaken education studies in Uganda, South Africa, Indonesia and Japan, among other countries.

Dr Diarmuid O’Donovan is Director of Public Health (Health Service Executive West) and Senior Lecturer in Social and Preventive Medicine at National University of Ireland Galway. He studied medicine at NUI Galway and public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He lived and worked in Africa for seven years, and is involved in research in Zambia, Sierra Leone and Sudan. Research interests include equity, information systems, reproductive and child health, communicable disease control, STIs, HIV and environmental health. A member of the Irish Aid Technical Advisory Group on HIV/AIDS and Global Communicable Diseases, he is a founder of the Irish Forum for Global Health.

Professor Peadar Cremin has been President of Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland, since 1999. Prior to that, he had worked in the College’s Education Department for more than 20 years. He has been involved with innovation in teacher education in a range of European countries (piloting the Comenius, Erasmus and Socrates programmes). He is the current President of the International Conference of Universities of St. Thomas which includes universities in each continent. Professor Cremin has researched development and educational issues in Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe), in the Middle East and in Latin America. His doctoral research was on education sector reform in Tanzania. He was the inaugural chair of the development agency 80:20, Educating for a Better World. He is currently Chair of the Development Education Advisory Committee which advises the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs. He has supported the establishment at Mary Immaculate College of a Centre for Global Development through Education which links a wide range of partners.

Professor Saida Yahya‐Othman teaches English linguistics at the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics at the University of Dar es Salaam. Her research is mostly in the areas of Kiswahili pragmatics, critical discourse analysis and language politics. Her most recent publications are Women Writing Africa, published by the Feminist Press, which she co‐edited with scholars from Tanzania, Malawi and Kenya, and Justice, Rights and Worship: Religion and Politics in Tanzania, also co‐edited. For the last 2 years she has been Director, Research and Publications, participating in various research networks, and coordinating University‐wide research programmes.

Professor John Saka is the Coordinator/Team Leader in the Faculty of Science’s Natural Resources and Environment Centre (NAREC), Chancellor College, University of Malawi. He is a chemist with research interests in science, utilization and commercialisation of natural resources for household incomes, improved health and nutrition. He has over 20 years experience in carrying out individual and group research with scientists from various African and European countries, and has published over 25 papers in international, regional and national refereed scientific journals. His own research projects concern the chemistry, processing and marketing of cassava and miombo indigenous fruit trees, and he is the principal investigator in projects on processing and marketing of high quality and safe cassava flour; genetics and chemistry of tropical root and tuber crops; processing, product development and marketing of high value products from indigenous fruits; and capacity building in water sciences for monitoring and management of water resources These projects include a component of postgraduate training which contributes to human capital development in basic and applied chemistry.

Professor Eli Katunguka‐Rwakishaya is Professor of Veterinary Medicine specialising in Veterinary Parasitology/Clinical Pathology at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. He was educated at Makerere University for his Bachelor’s degree, University College Dublin for his Master’s and Glasgow University for his Doctorate. He served as Head of Department, Deputy Dean and Dean of Makerere’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine from 1996 to 2005.He is currently the Director of the School of Graduate Studies which is charged with coordination of graduate training and research, including donor funded research programmes, in the university. He is also the co Chair of the Steering Committee of the Irish African Partnership with Professor Jane Grimson.

Why an Irish‐African Partnership for Research Capacity Building?

Despite over fifty years of development aid interventions, some 300 million African people, almost half the continent’s population, still survive on less than $1 a day. Poverty, in all its forms, remains endemic and deep rooted, with development policies and programmes failing to make a significant difference to the lives of many. Why? One factor is that, despite proven linkages between robust, quality research and policy effectiveness, development policies and programmes remain poorly informed by research. One significant reason for this persistent 'know/do' divide lies in the quality, relevance and usefulness of research to development policy, a factor which is, in turn, linked to the research capacity of higher education institutions, both in Africa and in Ireland.

Following a period of severe under‐funding through the 1980s and 1990s, African higher education institutions suffered a sharp deterioration in the quality of their research, as well as in their teaching and learning. The most serious bottleneck to research capacity building in Africa has been identified as the virtual collapse of research activity, the weakness of academic mentoring, and the relative scarcity of team and network projects. Irish universities are also faced with significant challenges. Research for development and poverty reduction across the Irish higher education system is characterised by fragmentation and individualisation. With a weak resource base, it also suffers from a lower status compared to ‘Irish’ or ‘western’ based research.

Times are changing however. We live in an increasingly interconnected world where the national economic, social and cultural interests demand that graduates have both a sound knowledge of global issues and the core values of a 'global citizen'. There is no longer a rationale for an inward looking system that does not recognise the global domain, the pressing need for global development and the eradication of global poverty and inequality. Universities today form an integral part of a global system of knowledge production and dissemination. It is within this context of an increasing internationalisation of higher education and research that the Irish‐African Partnership for Research Capacity Building (IAP), a network of 13 universities (9 on the island of Ireland and 4 in Africa) – an initiative of the Presidents and Vice‐Chancellors of the nine Irish universities under the auspices of Universities Ireland – was born. The overall aim of the network is to build capacity for research for development and poverty reduction within the 13 member universities, employing a partnership approach which supports mutual learning and capacity building.

A partnership approach to research capacity building: The IAP programme

The IAP, currently in the second year of a three‐year pilot programme, comprises a range of distinct yet interlinked activities aimed at assessing existing research capacity within the programme’s 13 partner institutions, identifying opportunities for future research partnerships across these institutions, and highlighting and devising strategies to address constraints to research capacity building across the partner institutions. Three of the principal activities involve assessing existing capacity across the institutions; identifying opportunities and constraints to research capacity building within them; and identifying key thematic research priorities over the next 10 years within the two core areas of health and education (cross‐cut by gender and ICT) which have been prioritised within this initial phase of the programme. In addition, a series of metrics/indicators for measuring both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of research capacity building are being developed over the course of the present programme. Our progress and plans to date are as follows:

Assessing existing research capacity The first steps in assessing existing research capacity began at the first IAP workshop hosted by Dublin City University in April 2008. Presentations from senior representatives of each of the four African partner institutions, as well as a keynote address by Professor Akilagpa Sawyerr from the Association of African Universities, provided an overview of existing research capacity within our partner institutions. Since this first workshop, more detailed assessments of research capacity in all 13 partner institutions are progressing through both desk and interview‐based research.

Identifying structural opportunities and constraints to research capacity building In addition to assessing existing research capacity in partner institutions, an intensive piece of field research involving 312 academics across the 13 partner institutions was carried out during the first year of the programme aimed at eliciting researchers’ own experiences and perceptions of the opportunities and constraints to research capacity within their institutions. The data was analysed and collated into an interim report which was presented at the second workshop hosted by Makerere University in Entebbe in November 2008. A second phase of data collation and consolidation will take place following this current workshop in Maputo, and the resultant report will highlight the opportunities across partner institutions for research capacity building and make concrete recommendations for addressing structural constraints.

Identifying key thematic research priorities An innovative planning methodology known as Foresight was introduced at the first programme workshop. Foresight is being used as a tool for analysing the future prospects for international development research and practice for poverty reduction. There are three main phases in the IAP foresight exercise. At the first workshop, at Dublin City University in April 2008, participants explored where they wanted to be in terms of research capacity in 10 years time and what they thought the obstacles to these goals were. At the second workshop, in hosted by Makerere University in November 2008, participants engaged in very dynamic sessions examining the possible future scenarios for development in Africa and the main research priorities emerging in the areas of health and education. At this, the third workshop hosted by the Universidad Eduardo Mondlane, participants will confirm their scenarios and decide a ranking for their chosen health and education priorities. This will establish the research priorities for the IAP moving forward, with members then seeking to build select aspects of research capacity within these themes at the IAP ‘summer school’, to be hosted by the University of Malawi towards the end of 2009.

Opportunities for future research partnerships within the IAP In 2010, the final year of the pilot three‐year programme, the findings from the three principal activities will be brought together into a final report highlighting research capacity strengths, weaknesses and opportunities, in both structural and thematic terms, and setting out the opportunities for future research partnerships within the IAP in the years to come. The key findings and recommendations emanating from this report will be presented at the final IAP workshop, to be hosted by Queens University Belfast in spring 2010.

Moving forward: Consolidating and disseminating the learning – building an Irish‐African research platform

The IAP is much more than just a three‐year programme, however, and the above areas are much more than discrete programme activities. All of our work, including the less tangible, yet crucial aspects such as relationship‐ building through listening, learning and working together toward shared understandings and principles, represent stepping stones toward a more long‐term, sustainable Irish‐African research platform. As we move from our third workshop into the half‐way phase of the programme, our emphasis must now move to consolidating and disseminating our learning from the programme’s core activities. From Maputo onwards, increasing emphasis needs to be placed on three core aspects ‐ visibility, mainstreaming and sustainability.

Visibility: How do we make the programme more visible in the partner institutions? How do we increase ‘buy in’ from our colleagues? How do we cascade down the organisations and how do we radiate out our findings and recommendations? We all need to think of how we increase the visibility of our emerging Irish African development research platform.

Mainstreaming: In a global world can we talk any more about ‘development’ as though it is a concern only in the South? Can we think of ways of mainstreaming our work? Should we start thinking of ‘research for development’ instead of ‘development research? Let us try to answer these questions here in Maputo.

Sustainability: How are we going to sustain this project after the current funding expires? Can we link with other projects and national development agencies to continue the work we have done and the agenda we have developed? How can we sponsor follow‐up partnership projects around the health and education priorities we have established?

IAP STEERING COMMITTEE

Professor Eli Katunguka‐Rwakishaya Makerere University, Co‐Chair

Professor Jane Grimson Trinity College Dublin, Co‐Chair

Professor Ronnie Munck Chair, Executive Committee, Dublin City University

Professor Mamudo Rafik Ismail Universidade Eduardo Mondlane

Professor Saida Yahya‐Othman University of Dar es Salaam

Professor Frank Kee Queen’s University Belfast

Dr Sean Farren University of Ulster

Professor John Saka University of Malawi

Professor Peadar Cremin/Professor Michael Healy Mary Immaculate College Limerick

Professor James Phelan University College Dublin

Dr Diarmuid O’Donovan National University of Ireland Galway

Dr Paul Conway University College Cork

Dr G. Honor Fagan National University of Ireland Maynooth

Professor Tom Lodge University of Limerick

Mr Andy Pollak Centre for Cross Border Studies/Universities Ireland

*Participating higher education institutions: Makerere University (Uganda), University of Malawi, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique), University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), University of Dublin/Trinity College, 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

CONTACTS

Professor Eli Katunguka‐Rwakishaya (Makerere) Co‐Chair, Steering Committee Tel: +256 41 530983 (O) Tel: +256 41 540564 (R) Mobile: +256 772754685 Email: [email protected]

Professor Jane Grimson (TCD) Co‐Chair, Steering Committee Tel: + 353 (0)1‐896‐1780 Mobile: + 353 (0)87‐235‐4821 Email: [email protected]

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

Professor Mamudo Ismail, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane EC member Tel + 258 21 322755 Mobile +258 84 39 81 0333 Email: [email protected]

Dr Niamh Gaynor (DCU) Project Director Tel: + 353(0)1‐700‐5637 Mobile: +353 (0)87‐125‐8713 Email: [email protected]

Mr Andy Pollak (CCBS) Administrative Leader Tel: +44 28‐3751‐1554 Mobile: +44 (0)771‐504‐2122 Mobile: +258 82 57 93 375 (for use after 6th May 2009) Email: [email protected]

Ms Patricia McAllister (CCBS) Workshop Organiser Tel: + 44 28 3751 8282 Mobile: +258 82 57 93 375 (for use after 6th May 2009) Email: [email protected]

Hotel Cardoso, Avenida de Martires Muede 707, Maputo, Mozambique. Telephone: +258 21 491 071 www.hotelcardoso.co.mz

WEBSITE

www.irishafricanpartnership.ie

The Irish‐African Partnership for Research Capacity Building is funded by Irish Aid through the Higher Education Authority, with some matching funding from Universities Ireland, the network which brings together the nine universities on the island of Ireland.