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BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND

Opened by

Sir Reg Empey, Northern Ireland Minister for Employment and Learning

Keynote Speakers

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

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PROGRAMME Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick DAY ONE - WEDNESDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER 2.35 – 3.00 Web Portal: Professor Jane Grimson, Trinity College Dublin; Professor George Nasinyama, Makerere University The Great Hall, Queen’s University Belfast 3.00 – 3.15 Refreshments 3.15 – 3.30 Metrics: Dr Eimear Barrett, Queen’s MORNING SESSION University Belfast 3.30 – 3.45 Summary: Mr Peter McEvoy, Project Chair: Professor Frank Kee , Professor of Public Health Manager, IAP,Dublin City University Medicine, Queen’s University Belfast 3.45 – 4.30 Discussion

9.30 Registr ation EVENING 10.00 – 10.30 Welcome and opening Professor Peter Gregson , Vice-Chancellor, 5.00 Depart for Civic Reception, Stormont Queen’s University Belfast 6.15 – 7.30 Civic Reception, Parliament Buildings, Sir Reg Empey MLA , Minister for Stormont – hosted by Mr Jim Wells, MLA, Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland Chair, All Party Group on International 10.30 – 11.00 Refreshments Development, Northern Ireland Assembly Launch of IAP’s Malawi workshop resource Chair: Mr Dick Spring , Chair, Irish African Partnership (IAP) book: Research Capacity Building for International Advisory Board, and former Irish Tánaiste and Development – Resources for Higher Minister for Foreign Affairs Education Institutions 8.15 Dinner in the Great Hall, Queen’s University Mr Michael Gaffey 11.00 – 12.30 Irish Aid: , Belfast. Deputy Director General After dinner speaker: Professor John Dr Eucharia Higher Education Authority: Hegarty, Provost, Trinity College Dublin, and Meehan , Head of Research and Capital Chair, Universities Ireland Programmes Universities Ireland: Professor Tom Collins, DAY TWO – THURSDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER President, National University of Ireland Maynooth IAP’s African Partner Institutions MORNING SESSION Professor Yunus Mgaya, Deputy Vice Chairs: Professor Jane Grimson Chancellor, University of Dar es Salaam , Professor of Health Professor Eli Katunguka-Rwakishaya, Informatics, Trinity College Dublin Dr Consolata Kabonesa Director, School of Graduate Studies, Makerere , Head of Department of Women University, Uganda and Gender Studies, Makerere University, Uganda Professor John Saka, Team Leader, Natural Keynote address on Climate Justice: Dr Resources and Environment Centre, 9.10 – 9.40 Mary Robinson Chancellor College, University of Malawi , President, Realizing Rights: Professor Mamudo Ismail, Dean of the Ethical Globalization Initiative; former Medicine, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, President of Ireland; former UN High Mozambique Commissioner for Human Rights Dr Agnes Nyomora 12.30 Buffet lunch in the South Dining Hall, QUB 9.40 – 9.50 Respondent 1: , College of Applied and Natural Sciences, University of AFTERNOON SESSION Dar es Salaam 9.50 –10.00 Respondent 2: Professor Frank Convery, Chairs: Professor Joseph Tesha, Director of Research, Heritage Trust Professor of Environmental University of Dar es Salaam Policy and Director of Urban Institute Ireland , Professor Ronnie Munck, Co Chair, IAP Executive University College Dublin; Chair, Sustainable Committee, Dublin City University. Energy Authority of Ireland 10.00 – 10.45 Questions IAP Workpackages: reviewing outputs and results 10.45 – 11.15 Refreshments 11.15 – 12.05 Five break out groups on climate justice: 1.30 – 1.40 Stakeholder consultation: Professor Sean Group 1 Facilitated by Professor Jane Grimson, Farren, University of Ulster Trinity College Dublin (TCD): Great Hall 1.40 – 1.50 Foresight Exercise: Dr Goretti Nakabugo, Group 2 Facilitated by Ms Niamh Brennan, Mary Immaculate College, University of TCD: Great Hall Limerick Group 3 Facilitated by Ms Sarah Glavey, TCD: 1.50 – 2.35 Malawi Summer School Research Old Common Room Support Modules and Resources: Group 4 Facilitated by Ms Roisin McEvoy, Professor John Saka, University of Malawi; University of Ulster: Newark Room Dr Honor Fagan, National University of Group 5 Facilitated by Dr Eimear Barrett, QUB: Ireland Maynooth; Professor Michael Healy, South Dining Hall

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12.05 – 12.45 Plenary discussion: Great Hall, QUB 10.30 – 11.00 Refreshments 12.45 Buffet lunch in the South Dining Hall, QUB 11.00 – 12.45 Round table session to inform IAP future direction, with international perspectives AFTERNOON SESSION 11.00 – 11.15 European University Association: Mr Michael Hörig,EUA Chairs: Professor Myles Wickstead, former Head of 11.15 – 11.30 World Health Organisation ESSENCE Initiative: Secretariat, Commission for Africa Dr Garry Aslanyan (WHO) Professor Mamudo Ismail, Dean of Medicine, Universidade 11.30 – 11.45 Prospects for IAP Phase 2: Professor Ronnie Eduardo Mondlane Munck, Co Chair IAP 11.45 – 12.15 African Partner perspectives: Professor 2.00 – 2.40 Keynote address on Hunger and Food Mamudo Ismail, Universidade Security: Mr Tom Arnold, Chief Executive Eduardo Mondlane Officer, Concern Worldwide Professor Eli Katunguka 2.40 – 3.00 Respondent 1: Professor A Z Mattee, Rwakishaya,Makerere University Associate Professor, Department of Professor John Saka University of Malawi Agricultural Education and Extension, Sokoine Professor Joseph Tesha University of University, Tanzania Dar es Salaam 3.00 – 3.20 Respondent 2: Professor Jane Wilde, Chief 12.15 – 12.40 Discussion Executive, Institute of Public Health in Ireland 12.40 Summary by Chair 3.20 – 3.45 Refreshments 12.45 – 1.00 Formal closing ceremony: 3.45 – 4.35 Five break out groups on hunger and food Professor Seán Farren, University of Ulster, security: and Co Chair IAP Group 1 Facilitated by Professor James Phelan, 1.00 – 2.30 Lunch in the South Dining Hall, QUB University College Dublin (UCD): Great Hall 2.30 Afternoon excursion for visitors to Ulster F olk Group 2 Facilitated by Professor A Z Mattee: and Transport Museum/Belfast wall murals Great Hall Group 3 Facilitated by Dr Jim Kinsella, UCD: Old Staff Common Room Group 4 Facilitated by Dr Nick Chisholm, SPEAKERS AND CHAIRPERSONS University College Cork: Newark Room Group 5 Facilitated by Mr Peter McEvoy, Dr Mary Robinson is the founding Project Manager, IAP: South Dining Hall President of Realizing Rights: the Ethical Globalization Initiative (set up in 2002), EVENING whose mission is ‘to put human rights standards at the heart of global governance 5.30 Depart for University of Ulster, Belfast Campus and policy-making and to ensure that the Reception at University of Ulster 6.00 – 7.00 , Belfast needs of the poorest and most vulnerable Professor Richard Campus, hosted by are addressed on the global stage.’ In this Barnett, Vice Chancellor . Launch of role she travels the world promoting five Commission for Africa 5 year Review ‘critical global challenges’: equitable trade and decent work; Report Professor Myles Wickstead by the right to health; more humane migration policies; the 7.00 Dinner at University of Ulster, Belfast Campus, Women Leaders Intercultural Forum; and corporate Professor Richard Barnett hosted by responsibility. From 1990 to 1997 Dr Robinson served a distinguished term as President of Ireland, during which time DAY 3 - FRIDAY 1ST OCTOBER she was the first Head of State to visit Rwanda in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide, and the first Head of State to MORNING SESSION visit Somalia after the 1992 humanitarian crisis ther e (and received the CARE Humanitarian Award in recognition of her Chairs: Ms Maire Matthews, Irish Aid efforts for that country). In September 1997 she became the Professor Christopher Kamlongera, University United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, of Malawi following her nomination to the post by Secr etary-General Kofi Annan, and served in that post until 2002. As High 9.15 – 10.30 Keynote address on Global North-South Commissioner, she gave priority to implementing the Partnership: Past trends, present Secretary-General's reform proposal to integrate human rights realities and how future partnership into all the activities of the UN . In 1998 she was the first UN might look : Professor Brian O’Connell, High Commissioner to visit China where she signed a wide Rector and Vice Chancellor, University of ranging agreement with the government to improve human Western Cape, South Africa rights. Before she became President, Dr Robinson served in Respondent: Dr Damtew Teferra, former the Irish Senate for 20 years and was an eminent barrister and Director for Africa and the Middle East, Ford human rights lawyer, including as a member of the Foundation International Fellowships Program; International Commission of Jurists. She has been awarded founder, International Network for Higher numerous honorary degrees, medals and prizes from Education in Africa universities and humanitarian organizations around the world. She is Honorary President of Oxfam International and a Questions and discussion

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founding member and Chair of the Council of Women Mr Dick Spring is a former Tánaiste World Leaders. (deputy prime minister) and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ireland. He was leader of Professor Frank Kee is Professor of the Irish Labour Party from 1982 to 1997. A Public Health Medicine and Director of the former rugby international, he was first Centre for Clinical and Population Sciences elected to the Dail in 1981 and served as at Queen’s University Belfast. He has Minister for the Environment in 1982-83 bachelor’s degrees in Physiology and and Tanaiste and Minister for Energy in mathematics, a Masters in Public Health 1982-1987. He returned to office as and Doctorate in Medicine, and is a Fellow Tánaiste and Minister of Foreign Affairs in two coalition of the Royal College of Physicians of governments in 1993-1994 and 1994-1997. He was involved in Edinburgh and of the Faculty of Public negotiations leading to the IRA and loyalist ceasefir es in Health (Royal College of Physicians). Professor Kee is also a Northern Ireland in 1994 and in further talks (up to 1997) Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. Recently, in partnership which led to the 1998 Belfast Agreement. He is now a with the Institute of Public Health in Ir eland, and in tandem businessman in his native Kerry and is also chairman of the with five schools from Queen’s University, he won a Réalta Global AIDS Foundation led by Irish doctor, Dr Concepta UKCRC/Research Council Centre of Excellence for Public Merry, which works in sub-Saharan African. Health Research award. His own research interest are in clinical epidemiology and translational research and Mr Michael Gaffey has been the Deputy increasingly in the field of public health interventions. Director of Irish Aid in the Department of Foreign Affairs since 2008. He worked in Professor Peter Gregson was appointed the Political Division of the Department President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's from 2002, as Director for the Middle East, University Belfast in 2004. He has led the and - during Ireland’s 2004 EU Presidency - university into the Russell Group of the 20 as Director for South East Europe. He has leading UK universities in 2006 and to the been an official of the Department of Times Higher Education UK Entrepreneurial Foreign Affairs since 1979, serving at University of the Year in 2009. A graduate various times in missions in Tokyo, London, Cairo, Baghdad of Imperial College London, he was and Chicago, as well as at Headquarters in the Anglo-Irish appointed to the academic staff of Division. University of Southampton in 1983. He became Professor of Aerospace Materials in 1995 and Deputy Vice Chancellor in Dr. Eucharia Meehan is Head of Research 2000. He published more than 150 peer reviewed papers and Capital Programmes at the Irish Higher between 1983 and 2005 and has been a warded numerous Education Authority (HEA). In that role she prizes for his research into advanced aerospace aluminium oversees the investment of government alloys. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, funding for physical infrastructure in the Irish Academy of Engineering and the Royal Irish Academy. He higher education sector, including as is a Non-Executive Director of Rolls Royce Group plc and Director of the Programme for Research in Director of UCEA (the Universities and Colleges Employers Third Level Institutions (PRTLI), a key Association). He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Belfast investment vehicle for the development of in 2007. national research capabilities. She is a member of the Inter- departmental Committee for Science, Technology and Sir Reg Empey MLA is Minister for Innovation. Prior to joining the HEA in 2001, she worked for Employment and Learning in the Northern 11 years in the private sector in Ir eland and the US in strategic Ireland Executive. An economics graduate planning for research, development and innovation. A of Queen’s University Belfast, in 1975, at graduate of NUI Galway and Trinity College Dublin, her the age of 28, he was elected an Ulster background is in pharmacology and biochemistry, Unionist Member of the Northern Ireland complemented by qualifications in management, accounting Constitutional Convention. He has twice and finance. She is a former Chair of Women in Technology been Lord Mayor of Belfast in 1989 and and Science (WITS). 1993. In the 1990s he was a leading member of the Ulster Unionist negotiating teams both in the Professor John Hegarty became Provost Brooke-Mayhew talks of 1991, and in the Castle Buildings of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland’s leading talks, chaired by Senator George Mitchell, which led to the and oldest university, in 2001, following 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and the formation of the periods as Dean of Research and Head of present Northern Ireland Assembly. In 1999 he was knighted the Physics Department. He did his PhD in (KBE) in the New Year's Honours List. In that year he was Physics at University College Galway, and appointed as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Investment in following a postdoctoral stay at the the new Northern Ireland Executive, a post he held until the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was a collapse of the power-sharing executive in October 2002. In research scientist at Bell Labs, New Jersey, 2004 he became Deputy Leader of the Ulster Unionist for six years. He returned to Ireland in 1986 as Professor of Assembly Party and a year later was elected Leader of the Laser Physics in TCD. The focus of Dr Hegarty’s research is the Ulster Unionist Party. study of light and how it inter acts with matter. He has produced over 140 publications, and developed several patents. He has been an Adjunct Professor at University of

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Georgia USA and Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo and 20 years experience in carrying out individual and group Sony Corporation. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy, research with scientists from various African and European the American Physical Society, the American Optical Society countries, and has published over 25 papers in international, and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. regional and national refereed scientific journals. His own research projects concern the chemistry, processing and Professor Tom Collins has recently been marketing of cassava and miombo indigenous fruit tr ees, and appointed President of National University he is the principal investigator in projects on processing and of Ireland Maynooth, having been Vice marketing of high quality and safe cassava flour; genetics and President for External Affairs and Dean of chemistry of tropical root and tuber crops; processing, Teaching and Learning in NUIM. Before product development and marketing of high value products that he was Head of the Education from indigenous fruits; and capacity building in water sciences Department in the university. He is a for monitoring and management of water r esources. former Director of Dundalk Institute of Technology. He was government advisor Professor Mamudo Ismail is Dean of the on both the Green Paper (1998) and the White Paper (2000) on Faculty of Medicine at Universidade Adult Education at which time he was Dir ector of the Centre Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) in Maputo, for Adult and Community Education at NUI Maynooth. He is Mozambique, and Head of the Department currently chair of the National Council for Curriculum and of Pathology/Pathology laboratory at the Assessment in the Republic of Ireland. Central Hospital of Maputo. He holds a medical degree from UEM and a PhD in Professor Yunus Mgaya is the Deputy Medicine and Surgery (Surgical Pathology) Vice Chancellor responsible for Planning, from the Central University of Barcelona. Finance and Administration at the His areas of research interest, in which he has published University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and widely, are placental and maternal malaria, tuberculosis, HIV. is also involved in teaching and supervising Other areas of interest are fine needle aspiration biopsies, soft postgraduate (masters and doctorate) tissue tumours and immunohistochemistry. His most recent students. He has published extensively in co-authored study was Clinico-pathological discrepancies in local and international peer reviewed the diagnosis of causes of maternal death in sub-Saharan journals on marine biology, fisheries and Africa: retrospective analysis. (2009) aquaculture. He received his MSc in Fisheries Biology from University of British Colombia, Canada in 1989 and his PhD in Professor Joseph Tesha was appointed aquaculture from National University of Ireland Galway in the Director of Research at the University 1995.He has held a range of academic posts at the of Dar es Salaam in July 2009. He was University of Da res Salaam since 1986, including Dean of the previously Acting Dean of the Faculty of Faculty of Aquatic Sciences and Technology from 2003 to Mechanical and Chemical Engineering in 2006. He is Chairman of the board of the Tanzanian Fisheries the College of Engineering and Technology. Research Institute, and Chairman of the Tanzania-Ireland A mechanical engineer, he graduated from Alumni Association. the then Faculty of Engineering in 1978. He received his Masters degree (1981) and Prof Eli Katunguka Rwakishaya is his PhD (1994) in Advanced Materials at Cranfield University in Professor of Veterinary Medicine England. He worked for some years in r esearch laboratories in specialising in Veterinary the UK and Switzerland. For the past six years he has being Parasitology/Clinical Pathology at Makerere doing research on the utilization of agricultural residues and University, Kampala, Uganda. He was waste in the production of panel products, using locally educated at Makerere University for his developed resins based on Cashew Nut Shell Liquid. He is a Bachelor’s degree, University College co-Chair of the Executive Committee of the IAP. Dublin for his Master’s and Glasgow University for his Doctorate. He served as Professor Ronnie Munck is Head of Civic Head of Department, Deputy Dean and Dean of Makerere’s and Global Engagement at Dublin City Faculty of Veterinary Medicine from 1996 to 2005.He is University and visiting Professor of currently the Director of the School of Graduate Studies which Sociology at University of Liverpool. is charged with coordination of graduate training and Previously he was the first post-apartheid research, including donor funded research programmes, in the Chair in Sociology at the University of university. He is a co-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Durban-Westville in South Africa. He has Irish-African Partnership for Research Capacity Building (IAP). written widely on development issues, including Critical Development Theory: Professor John Saka is the Contributions to a New Paradigm (London, 2000) and on his Coordinator/Team Leader in the Faculty of native Latin America, most recently Contemporary Latin Science’s Natural Resources and America (London, 2008). His recent work has focused on the Environment Centre (NAREC), Chancellor impact of globalisation in Globalization and Social Exclusion: A College, University of Malawi. He is a Transformationalist Perspective (2005) and Globalization and chemist with research interests in science, Contestation: The new great counter-movement (2007). He is utilization and commercialization of natural currently working on globalisation and migration in Ireland and resources for household incomes, edits the e-journal Translocations (www.translocations.ie). He improved health and nutrition. He has over

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is a co-Chair of the Executive Committee of the IAP and Professor Michael Healy is Associate convenor of the Development Studies Association Ireland. Vice President and Head of Research at Mary Immaculate College, University of Professor Sean Farren started his career Limerick. He holds a Masters and PhD in teaching in Ireland, Switzerland and Sierra geography from University College Cork; he Leone before joining the Education Centre also holds a Higher Diploma in Education. at the New University of Ulster as a He lectured in geography, environmental Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer. His science, environmental management and research interests include curriculum countryside management at Manchester studies, education in a divided society and Metropolitan University from 1990 to 1996. He returned to the history of Irish education. In politics he Ireland to lecture in geography at Mary Immaculate College, was a senior negotiator for the Social where he also held the post of Dir ector of Graduate Studies. Democratic and Labour Party during the 1996-98 negotiations He has published three edited books in the field of physical in Northern Ireland. Elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly geography, as well as co-editing the manual developed from in 1998, he held ministerial positions in the power-sharing the IAP’s March 2010 Malawi summer school – Research Executive of 1999-2002, first as Minister for Employment and Capacity Building for Development: Resources for Higher Learning and later as Minister for Finance and Personnel. He Education Institutions – which will be launched during the retired from politics in 2007. He is the author of two books, Queen’s conference. He is an executive member of the Centr e several book chapters and many articles dealing with for Global Development through Education, an Irish Aid- education and politics in Northern Ireland.He is a co-Chair of funded initiative hosted at Mary Immaculate College. the Executive Committee of the IAP. Professor Jane Grimson is Director of Dr Goretti Nakabugo is the education the Centre for Health Informatics at Trinity researcher for the Irish-African Partnership College Dublin (TCD) and holds a personal for Research Capacity Building, and is chair in health informatics there. She is a hosted by Mary Immaculate College, former Vice-Provost, Dean of Research and University of Limerick. Before coming Dean of Engineering at TCD, having joined Ireland in 2008, she was Senior Lecturer the university as a Lecturer in Computer and Head of the Department of Curriculum, Science in 1980. Her main research Teaching and Media at Makerere University, interests are health information systems Uganda. She holds a Masters and PhD and electronic health records. She is a past president of the Degree from the University of Cape Town and a BA in Institution of Engineers or Ireland, the Irish Academy of Education from Makerere University. Her research interests Engineering, the Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland, and include curriculum reform, pedagogy, assessment for learning, the Irish Computer Society. She is currently Chair of the Irish education development and international cooperation in Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology. education. She was a Visiting Professor to the Center for the She is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Study of International Cooperation in Education, Hiroshima Engineers Ireland, the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, University, Japan in 2006. She is a member of the Society for and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. She is currently Research in Higher Education and has undertaken education on a partial secondment to the Health Information and Quality studies in Uganda, South Africa, Indonesia and Japan. Authority in Ireland as its Director of Health Information. She has been instrumental in the introduction of policies in Dr Honor Fagan is Dean of Graduate relation to open access publication by a number of national Studies and a Senior Lecturer in Sociology research funding agencies as well as by the European at the National University of Ireland, Commission. Maynooth. She chairs the Irish University Association Deans of Graduate Education Professor George Nasinyama is Deputy Group and has presented papers on Director (Research and Publications), research training provision in Ireland at School of Graduate Studies, Makerere numerous international conferences. A University and Associate Professor of sociologist, she has previously lectured in Epidemiology, Veterinary Public Health and sociology departments in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Preventive Medicine at Makerere. He is also Britain. Her current research interests include globalisation Team Leader of the Kampala Urban and human security, governance and civil society, and e- Agriculture, Food Security and Livestock democracy. She did field research on early school leavers in Coordinating Committee. From 1999 to Dublin for her book Cultural Politics and Irish Early School 2006 he was Head of the Department of Veterinary Public Leavers: Constructing Political Identities (1995). She also has Health and Preventive Medicine at Makerere. His research done field research on women in South African townships, areas are risk assessment, food safety, epidemiology of which has been published in articles on gender and infectious diseases of food animals and zoonoses, and development in leading scholarly journals and books. She has ecosystem health. He received his PhD from the University of carried out European and national funded r esearch projects Guelph, Ontario, Canada, and his MSc (Veterinary Preventative on e-democracy. Medicine) 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. She Development and Family Studies from the University of Illinois; was awarded a PhD in molecular biology and an MA in English and American Literature and a Higher from University of Ulster in 2006 and spent Diploma in Education from University College Dublin. two years as a scientific advisor for an Irish clinical diagnostics company before joining Dr Agnes Nyomora lectures in the the IAP in 2008. Her interests include College of Applied and Natural Sciences at molecular diagnostics, infectious disease University of Dar es Salaam. She works and health promotion. with five partners in Africa, India and the UK on Project PISCES (Policy Innovation Mr Peter McEvoy is the Irish-African Systems for Clean Energy Security), which Partnership’s Project Manager. He has over aims to increase knowledge and 20 years experience as a development understanding of the policy trade-off practitioner, managing international between security, energy-food and water projects and programmes, especially in the for the rural livelihood in relation to energy. She is also a areas of human resource development, researcher for PUMPSEA (Peri-urban mangrove forests as training, organisational analysis, capacity filters and potential phytoremediators of domestic sewage in building, monitoring and evaluation. Before East Africa) which intends to demonstrate the efficiency of joining the IAP team, he worked extensively mangrove wetlands as filters of domestic sewage along the (in 25 countries) as an independent development consultant coast of East Africa. This is an international project involving on behalf of missionary bodies, NGOs, bilateral donors and the 12 institutions and four subcontractors from nine countries: European Commission. He has also served with Irish Aid as in- Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Kenya, Mozambique, country programme coordinator in Lesotho. A graduate of Portugal, Sweden and Tanzania. The project is funded by the Queen's University Belfast, he is the holder of a higher degr ee European Commission through its 6th Framework Programme. in Economics and Public Policy from Trinity College Dublin. Professor Frank Convery is Heritage Mr Jim Wells MLA has represented South Trust Professor of Environmental Policy and Down as a Democratic Unionist Party Director of the Urban Institute Ireland at Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly University College Dublin. He is also since 1998 (he was also the Assemblyman Chairperson of the Sustainable Energy for the constituency from 1982 to 1986). He Authority of Ireland. He has been involved is Chairman of the Assembly’s All-Party in numerous successful European research Group on International Development. He projects, including as coordinator of the has also served on the Assembly's networks CATEP (Concerted Action on Enterprise, Trade and Investment Emissions Trading) and CAMBI (Market Based Instruments). As Committee and is the DUP representative on the Assembly a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Commission - the body which manages the Stormont building Environment Agency (EEA), he chaired the committee and its staff. He is also the secretary of the DUP Assembly overseeing the Agency’s reports on the uses of environmental Group at Stormont, and a member of Down District Council taxation and voluntary approaches in environmental policy. In for the Ballynahinch area. He is a town planner by profession, the forthcoming EEA report on the use of economic and working through his constituency offices in Ballynahinch, instruments, he leads the team addressing emissions trading. Kilkeel and Rathfriland, has represented constituents at He is President of the European Association of Environmental numerous planning appeals, social security tribunals, DLA and Resource Economists, and a member of the High Level reviews and established a reputation as a very effective public Group of Economists chaired jointly by the European representative. He is a member of all thr ee Loyal Orders. Commission’s Director General, Environment, and the Director of the EEA. He is a member of the Working Group on the Dr Consolata Kabonesa is a Senior Revision of National Emission Ceilings (NEC) and Policy Lecturer and Head of the Department of Instruments, tasked with advising the Commission on the Women and Gender Studies in the Faculty revision of the NEC Directive. of Social Sciences at Makerere University in Kampala. Dr. Kabonesa teaches a wide Professor Myles Wickstead CBE was range of courses that focus on human Head of Secretariat to the Commission for rights, peace and conflict transformation Africa (CfA), whose report ‘Our Common from a gender perspective; gender Interest’ formed the basis of the G8 focussed research methodology; Gleneagles Communique on Africa in 2005. theoretical perspectives on women and gender, and gender The Commission has in September 2010 and social representation. She has over 10 years of produced a follow-up Report – ‘Still Our experience as a gender analyst and r esearcher, gender trainer, Common Interest’ – to report on progress and facilitator in areas of gender, land, health, employment against the CfA’s recommendations. and human rights. Areas of research interest include human Professor Wickstead, now visiting Professor (International development and gender; women and human rights; Relations) at the Open University, has a long involvement with employment rights for women; gender and health, particularly Africa. Between 1993 and 1997 he was based in Nairobi as HIV/AIDS; gender and land tenure systems in Uganda and Head of the British Development Division in Eastern Africa, their effects on women’s productivity. She holds a PhD in responsible for British Government development programmes Human and Community Development; an MSc in Human

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in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. He coordinated the 1997 consultant in public health with over 30 years experience , Government White Paper Eliminating World Poverty: A focussing on public health policy, social determinants of health Challenge for the 21st Century; served on the board of the and action to tackle health inequalities. She has contributed to World Bank (and as Development Counsellor at the British a wide range of cross government committees in Ir eland and Embassy) in Washington from 1997 to 2000; and from 2000 to the UK ranging from housing, agriculture and food safety to 2004 was based in Addis Ababa as British Ambassador to consumer affairs and poverty. She has co-directed various Ethiopia and Djibouti. World Health Organisation programmes in Northern Ireland. She is an honorary professor at Queen’s University Belfast and Mr Tom Arnold has been Chief Executive visiting professor at the University of Ulster. of Concern Worldwide since 2001. He was previously Assistant Secretary General and Professor Richard Barnett has been Vice Chief Economist in the Department of Chancellor of the University of Ulster since Agriculture and Food in Ireland. He worked 2006. He joined the university in 1990 when for the European Commission for 10 years, he was appointed Professor of Public three of which were in Africa. He was Finance and Management, and has held Chairman of the Organisation of Economic appointments as Head of School, Dean, and Co-operation and Development (OECD) Pro Vice Chancellor (Teaching and committee for agriculture (1993-1998). He served on the UN Learning). Before joining Ulster, Professor Millennium Project’s Hunger Task Force (2003-05), and was a Barnett held academic appointments at the member of the Irish Hunger Task Force (2007-08) and the UN’s Universities of Salford and York and at the Queen’s University, Central Emergency Response Fund’s (CERF) Advisory Group Ontario. He has also held the Vivienne Stewart Visiting (2006-09). He was Chairman of the European F ood Security Fellowship at the University of Cambridge and been a Visiting Group (EFSG), a network of 40 European NGOs engaged in Scholar at Wolfson College, Cambridge. His publications focus food security work, between 2005 and 2010. Mr Arnold was on the applied aspects of economics, especially inter- elected in 2010 to the nine member boar d of the Consultative governmental fiscal relations. He is currently a Non-Executive Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), charged Director of Bombardier Aerospace (Belfast), a Member of the with leading the reform of the international agriculture Board of the Northern Ireland Science Park Foundation, and a research system. He is a member of the International F ood Member of the Department for Employment and Learning’s Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) advisory Board. He is also a Employment and Skills Advisory Group. In 2008-09 he chaired member of the Trust governing the Irish Times and was a the Independent Review of Economic Policy set up by the NI member of the Irish Government’s Commission on Taxation Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Investment. (2008-09). Ms Máire Matthews is a Senior Professor A Z Mattee is currently Development Specialist in Irish Aid. She Associate Professor in the Department of works as policy adviser in the Public Agricultural Education and Extension, Information and Development Education Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Section and manages Irish Aid’s Programme Tanzania. He holds a BSc in General of Strategic Cooperation with Higher Agriculture from University of Dar es Education Institutions. Prior to joining Irish Salaam, and an MSc and PhD in Continuing Aid in 2003, she worked for four years as and Vocational Education from University of the Coordinator of the National Committee Wisconsin, Madison. He has taught a range for Development Education. She worked for the Irish NGO, of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in agricultural Concern, from 1976 until 1998 in a r ange of roles including education, agricultural extension and rural development at Development Education. She holds an MA in Development Sokoine University.In addition to teaching, he has been Head of Management from the Open University and an MA in the Department of Agricultural Education and Extension for Communications and Cultural Studies from Dublin nine years; Associate Dean in the Faculty of Agriculture for six City University. years; founding Director of Centre for Sustainable Rural Development for seven years, and Director of the Professor Christopher Kamlongera is Development Studies Institute for three years. He is also the Principal of Chancellor College, involved in consultancy and advisory work for the University of Malawi. He is Professor of Government, donor organisations and NGOs. Drama at the college. He was Regional Director of the Southern African Professor Jane Wilde CBE was the Development Community Centre of founding Director and has been Chief Communication for Development based in Executive of the Institute of Public Health in Harare, Zimbabwe from 1997 to 2007. Prior Ireland since 1998. The IPHI promotes to this appointment he was the founding cooperation between Northern Ireland and Director of the Malawi Institute of Journalism. He has published the Republic of Ireland by identifying several books and articles on African theatre, English language practical ways to improve the health of and literature, and communication for development. He holds people in both jurisdictions. Its remit a BA from University of Mala wi; an MA in Drama and Theatre includes research and information, capacity Arts; and a PhD from University of Leeds. building and policy advice. Its focus is on health inequalities and building links between research and policy. Dr Wilde is a

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Professor Brian O’Connell has been also worked for three years as a communication and Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the international officer at the National Union of Students in University of the Western Cape in South Flanders. He has a Masters in Political Science/ International Africa since 2001. His career as a teacher, Relations from Ghent University, Belgium. professor and education administrator spans 39 years. He holds undergraduate Dr Garry Aslanyan joined the Special degrees from the University of the Western Programme on Research and Training on Cape and the University of South Africa, Tropical Diseases (TDR) of the World Health and postgraduate degrees from Columbia Organization (WHO) as Portfolio Policy University in New York. After seven years in the school system, Manager in 2009. He is responsible for followed by three years as Rector of a College of Education, he development of that programme’s policy was appointed Director of the School of Education at frameworks, including TDR's collaborations Peninsula Technikon in 1991. In 1994 he became acting Vice- with six WHO regional offices and the Rector with responsibility for Student Affairs at Pentech. In coordination of ESSENCE, an initiative of 1995 he was appointed Head of the Western Cape Education research funders. Prior to this, Dr Aslanyan spent two years at Department, responsible for more than 2,000 education the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) as Principal institutions, including 18 technical colleges. Professor Advisor of the International Public Health Division, developing O’Connell has published essays and articles on a wide r ange PHAC's relations with key organizations such as WHO. From of educational matters with an emphasis on leadership, 2001 to 2007, Dr. Aslanyan worked as the Senior Health Advisor transformation and the legacy of apartheid. He has chaired and later Team Leader of the Health Systems, Research and many community organizations and served on many boards, Analysis group at the Canadian International Development including the South African Qualifications Authority. He Agency (CIDA) where he was responsible for development of currently chairs the Community Chest, an affiliate of the United CIDA’s policies in the health sector, including immunization, Way International, and the Institute for Justice and communicable and non-communicable disease prevention and Reconciliation. control, and health research. He is an Adjunct Professor in international health at the University of Otta wa’s Faculty of Dr Damtew Teferra is the former director Medicine. He is trained in dentistry, public health and health for Africa and the Middle East of the F ord policy and systems. Foundation International Fellowships Program, based at the Institute of International Education in New York. He is a WHAT IS THE IAP? former Associate Research Professor of Higher Education at the Center for The Irish-African Partnership for Research Capacity International Higher Education, Boston Building (IAP for short) (www.irishafricanpartnership.ie) is a College. He was founding Editor-in-Chief of partnership of all nine universities on the island of Ir eland with Journal of Higher Education in Africa the . He is the author of University of Malawi, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane Scientific many books on African higher education, including (Mozambique), University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and Communication in African Universities: External Assistance and Makerere University (Uganda). It is largely funded by Irish Aid National Needs (2003). He was lead editor of the a ward- (the Irish Government’s development cooperation agency) with African Higher Education: An International Reference winning some matching funding from Universities Ireland (the network Handbook African Higher Education: The (2003) and of which brings together the universities on the island of Ir eland). International Dimension (2008). In 2003 he established the It promotes institutional collaboration for development-related website International Network for Higher Education in Africa, knowledge generation, knowledge exchange and mutual intended for use by scholars, experts, practitioners, policy learning. Since its inception in autumn 2007, the project has makers, funders, students, and others engaged in research sought to broaden and enrich research collaboration between and development related to higher education in Africa. He Ireland and Africa. It is now widely recognised as fulfilling a holds a PhD from Boston College, an MPhil from University crucial coordinating role for the collective contribution to of Stirling, Scotland, and a BSc from Addis Ababa international development among the universities in Ir eland University, Ethiopia. and Northern Ireland. Its niche of institutional-level capacity building represents an organisational commitment by the Irish Mr Michael Hörig is in charge, within the and Northern Irish higher education sector, over and above European University Association’s Higher the myriad research and postgraduate projects in which Education Policy Unit, of work on widening faculties, schools, institutes and individual researchers access, lifelong learning, qualifications engage bilaterally. frameworks, innovative teaching and the Bologna process. He currently manages the The IAP works at one remove from implementation of actual ‘Shaping Inclusive and Responsive research projects, for example by supporting the Southern University Strategies’ project and is closely partners in creating and strengthening their research involved with the implementation of the support functions, in order more effectively to relate their ‘Access to Success: Fostering trust and exchange between research priorities to poverty reduction and national Europe and Africa’ project. Mr Hörig has been a member of development objectives. Recognition of the value of several Bologna working groups and the ECTS Users Guide incorporating community consultation processes and policy drafting group. Before joining the EUA in 2006, he was involved level interfaces into research design are also emphasised. in ESIB – the National Unions of Students in Europe – representing the students’ interests in the Bologna Process. He

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Underlying the creation of the IAP was a r ecognition that infrastructure (ICT) and human resources, and research needed to become increasingly multi-disciplinary to disseminating these learning modules though publication respond meaningfully to the over-arching and urgent global of a resource book and DVD; challenges of our time, such as poverty reduction, food • Identification of priority research needs in the two core security and climate change. IAP’s priority areas thus reflect thematic areas of Health and Education; the thematic and cross-cutting priorities of Irish Aid and the • Development of a set of Metrics by which r esearch Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), such as health, capacity building may be measured; education, gender, environment and ICT. • Development of an Irish-African Web Portal (www.irishafricanpartnership.ie) which links the university Project activities are grouped around five distinct work partners in a virtual community and which provides a streams conducted by joint Irish/African work teams: vehicle for showcasing development research and information through a digital repository. • Development of understanding of the complex issues involved in research capacity building within the partner The Queen’s University workshop/conference is the fifth and universities through an in-depth Stakeholder Consultation final workshop during the IAP’s first phase, which will end in exercise; spring 2011. The other workshops were held in Dublin City • Organising an International Summer School (in University University (April 2008); Entebbe, Uganda (November 2008); of Malawi in March 2010) around institutional capacity Maputo, Mozambique (May 2009); and Chancellor College, building issues such as research funding, research training, Zomba, Malawi (March 2010). research management, research bid writing, research

IAP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Professor Ronnie Munck Dublin City University, Co-Chair

Professor Eli Katunguka-Rwakishaya Makerere University, Co-Chair

Professor Sean Farren University of Ulster, Co-Chair

Professor Joseph Tesha University of Dar es Salaam, Co-Chair

Professor Mamudo Ismail Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique

Professor Jane Grimson Trinity College Dublin

Professor Frank Kee Queen’s University Belfast

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 Kevin T Ryan University of Limerick

Mr Andy Pollak Centre 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.

11 CONTACTS

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

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

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

Professor Joseph Tesha (University of Dar es Salaam) Co-Chair, Executive Committee Tel: +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 Manager Tel: +353 (0) 1 700 5635 Mobile: + 353 (0) 87 688 7045 Email: [email protected]

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

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

Malone Lodge Hotel, 60 Eglantine Avenue, Belfast BT9 6DY Tel: +44 (0)28 9038 8060 www.malonelodgehotelbelfast.com

Days Inn, 40 Hope Street, Belfast BT12 5EE Tel: +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 Education Authority, with some matching funding from Universities Ireland, the network which brings together the nine universities on the island of Ireland