Royal Tropical Institute Annual Review 2009 Royal Tropical Institute Annual Review 2009 Royal Tropical Institute Royal Tropical Institute Annual Review 2009 Preface — 7 KIT Facts – 11 Annual Social Report – 14 General, The Institute in 2009 – 8 KIT Corporate Governance — 12 January — 15 February — 21 March — 27 IMC on its own feet — 16 Value chain financing: beyond Iranian youth microfinance for rural theatre — 28 Automated detection of entrepreneurs — 22 tuberculosis microcolonies — 18 Fela Kalakuta Notes — 29 Smart Toolkit for Evaluating Wayang Superstar, Ki Enthus Information Projects, Boil it, cook it, peel it, Susmono’s world of theatre — 20 Products and Services — 23 or forget it — 29 Supporting agricultural International seminar entrepreneurship — 24 on institutional repositories — 31 Great success Tropenmuseum Junior — 32 July — 47 August — 53 September — 59 Applied clinical research and Digitizing the past, the Culture and renewal, a evidence-based medicine — 48 beginning of a new future — 54 new director for the Tropentheater — 60 Caribbean Carnival from 5 July ‘The maps are in the right place to 6 September — 49 at KIT’— 56 Studying at KIT — 62 2009 audience satisfaction Indian-Dutch Innovation International users of KIT survey — 52 Circle — 58 Library — 64 New policy on contemporary art for the Tropenmuseum — 66 Tropenmuseum in Content 2009 — 66 Health Sustainable Economic & Social Development Culture Information & Education April — 33 May — 37 June — 41 Iranian youth Globalizing KIT Library — 34 Vodou Maternal health at stake: theatre — 28 Exhibition in the policy processes in Vietnam, Trance Festival — 35 Tropenmuseum — 38 India and China — 42 Fela Kalakuta Notes — 29 Dance performance in the Na Bigi Du — 44 Boil it, cook it, peel it, Tropentheater — 39 or forget it — 29 Dewaruci in the Light Evaluating performance-based Hall — 44 International seminar financing for health — 40 on institutional Evaluating a programme repositories — 31 for HIV-affected children in India — 45 Great success Tropenmuseum Junior — 32 October — 67 November — 73 December — 79 Jump into China! — 68 KIT takes part in WHO’s Global Annona — 80 Outbreak Alert and Response United in the battle Network — 74 KIT’s search engine — 82 against TB — 69 Unique exhibition on Maroon Building capacity for gender Platform for Health in culture — 75 and rights in six UNICEF developing countries — 70 offices in West Africa — 84 KIT Publishers’ first novel — 76 Suriname’s Architecture and Dancember — 85 Eva and the Kris — 76 Construction Culture — 71 Amsterdam Museum Night — 77 Boards & Councils — 86 Highly satisfied customers for IMC B.V. — 72 Islam in the Picture — 77 Colophon — 88 NH Tropen Hotel all-in deals — 72 Villa Zapakara — 78 Dr. Jan Donner and Bart de Steenhuijsen Piters in Suriname. Photo: Bart de Steenhuijsen Piters 6 Preface By their very nature, Annual Reviews reflect on the past, While KIT itself experienced healthy development in 2009, and there is of course a great deal to say about 2009. But we cannot ignore the impact of the financial crisis on our 2010 is a particularly special year for the Royal Tropical stakeholders in developing countries. Our involvement with Institute (KIT): it is our centennial, a fitting time for us to smallholders in Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana and Bolivia look to the future and also reflect on how we can best use confronts us not only with the need for better access to our knowledge and experience to benefit our partners and financial services, but also with ongoing climatic change and many stakeholders worldwide. How can we best apply its effects. And KIT staff based in countries such as Yemen or what we learned in 2009 and earlier years to enhance our on missions in Afghanistan report a need for improved performance in the future? governance and improved access to primary services such In 2009, we introduced a new medium for reporting on our as health, education, sanitation and maternity care. activities. Using short documentaries, or Shortdocs, KIT There will be many events at KIT in 2010, inspired by both a staff in the field report on their work and on KIT’s activities century of experience and an eagerness for the future. Many in Malawi, India, Kenya, Mozambique, the Netherlands and of these will be open to guests from the Netherlands and many other locations. Shortdocs cover everything from abroad and we look forward to welcoming you in great capacity building to organizing a ‘writeshop’, and from numbers. The programme can be found on our special structuring value chains to carrying out an evaluation or centennial website, www.kit.nl/100. providing treatment. Our local partners take a major role in The Royal Tropical Institute flourished in its first century with these documentaries, using them to demonstrate how KIT the support and encouragement of many people. We are complements their own capacities. delighted and grateful to be perceived as an inspiring KIT’s partners and staff all over the globe made great institute with enthusiastic staff. And we are proud to have contributions to the new knowledge we harvested in 2009. been invited to participate in the endeavours of so many In turn, we reached out to ever more students, readers and organizations and institutions, be they public or private, audiences, with a record 58 students enrolling in our multinational or national, from civil society or from the master’s programmes. We had to bid farewell to the academic and business worlds. Our continued focus on Mumbai exhibition at Tropenmuseum Junior after two and poverty alleviation, cultural exchange and sustainable a half years, and the Vodou exhibition in the development in our research, education and capacity makes Tropenmuseum was highly successful. Our historical maps us confident that we are truly fulfilling our mission! are now accessible online and the number of visitors to our website, with its various subsites and portals, is increasing Dr. Jan Donner, President by many thousands each year. We were also honoured with March 2010 several national and international awards, both for our plans to expand our facilities and for various other activities in which KIT is involved. 7 Royal Tropical Institute Preface General – The Institute in 2009 The Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) develops voting audience of co-workers chose the winning effective new products, services and partnerships project, a centre for evidence-based medicine in to stay true to its mission. It generates and shares East Africa. knowledge through practical experience, training, research and postgraduate work, and is engaged Information and Education in the transfer of knowledge on culture and KIT collaborates with local organizations in 40 sustainable development to, from and among developing countries on the strengthening of developing countries. In 2009, KIT continued to information services. KIT Library is Europe’s contribute directly, both in the long term and biggest library on international cooperation. The through individual projects, to the achievement of institute organizes a wide range of training several of the United Nations’ Millennium courses on health and development and on Development Goals (MDGs), such as eradicating intercultural communication. Partner poverty and hunger (MDG 1), promoting gender organizations include the Association of African equality (MDG 3), reducing maternal mortality Universities, the VU University, Elsevier’s Science (MDG 5), combating diseases that Publshers and Swets. disproportionately affect the poor (MDG 6) and • For the academic year 2009–2010, 70 promoting fair trade (MDG 8). international students came to Amsterdam to join a masters programme in health and development, Interdepartmental cooperation and innovation compared to 48 in 2008–2009. received considerable attention in 2009. A new • KIT launched an ePlatform on mobile health in series of interdepartmental projects got underway. developing countries. In Ghana, Mozambique and Departments are working together on subjects Suriname, KIT gave universities training on ICT and ranging from the development of digital access to scientific databases. educational games and e-learning applications, to • KIT Intercultural Management & Communication the development of a virtual cultural centre and (KIT IMC) received a new Cedeo certificate. Only the delivery of health services through mobile training companies scoring 80% or more in phones. The entire staff was involved in a step- customer satisfaction are eligible for this wise process of idea generation and proposal certificate. KIT IMC performed more training and development, which culminated in a festive final advice on cultural diversity for organizations event where five well-prepared teams competed ranging from the Ministry of Education to AZ for the opportunity to launch their project in 2010 Alkmaar football club. by delivering a mixture of lively presentations and musical performances. A professional jury and a Royal Tropical Institute General 8 Sustainable Economic and Social Development • 176,000 people from KIT aims to improve the livelihoods of vulnerable the Netherlands and producers in developing countries. The institute abroad came to see promotes the rights, inclusion and participation of exhibitions in the marginalized groups. For this reason, KIT seeks to Tropenmuseum include poorer households, and especially women, in such as Vodou, Wayang Superstar value chains. Partner organizations include Agri- and The Dono Code. A three-star ProFocus (APF), Cordaid, the Overseas