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One day GITA training in animal health : a facilitation manual focused on integrating gendered intersectional transformative approach (GITA) in animal health to train the staff of the Livestock service divisions and goat cooperatives in Nepal [Nepalese version]
No full textEnglish version available in IDRC Digital Library: One day GITA training in animal health : a facilitation manual focused on integrating gendered intersectional transformative approach (GITA) in animal health to train the staff of the Livestock service divisions and goat cooperatives in NepalBill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)Global Affairs Canada (GAC
Framing AI discourse : a study of AI discourse Twitter platform in Kenya and South Africa
Get PDFArtificial Intelligence (AI) has become a main feature of news coverage and social media discourse. News and social media coverage can drive the ongoing discussions about the use of AI and influence attitudes towards it. The study used mixed methodology (automatic content analysis and manual coding) to establish the framing of AI on Twitter in Kenya and South Africa. The analysis mainly focused on determining the different local and regional narratives in tweets and retweets in the countries of study pertaining to AI in different categories. The study substantiated the claims, and general views, espoused in the analyzed tweets with data from local and international resources to determine their veracity. A total of 256 tweets from Kenya and 516 tweets from South Africa pertaining to AI sent between 2016 – 2021 were analyzed. These tweets were categorized into 7 different groups: (i) automation and job replacement, (ii) education, (iii) AI and development, (iv) commercial services, (v) health, (vi) AI and governance, and (vii) ethics and regulation, and then further delineated according to 3 sentiments: positive, negative or neutral tweet. The sentiments conveyed by the compiled tweets across these 7 categories was assessed. Study findings showed that, in general, there is still a tendency toward an optimistic view of the possible impact of AI on solving problems in Kenya and South Africa. The differences in negative and positive sentiments across the different categories skews, for the most part, toward higher positive sentiments in Kenya on a particular topic than in South Africa. Finally, the sentiments, both positive and negative, espoused in these tweet mirror those of Global North countries concerning AI, even when the on-the-ground-realities do not support these concerns
MPIDO - I-CAN governance and environmentality project narrative report 2017 : empowering / strengthening communities in Kajiado County through an analytical and dissemination of community land Act 2016 to enhanced good governance of community land and natural resources
Get PDFThis narrative report shows how this project helped increase the knowledge, empowerment, and capacity of communities to define their respective domains and undertake all legal and organizational steps required to secure registered community land title in accordance with the Customary Land Act. This project has gone a long way in empowering the group ranches officials and community members on community Land Act 2016. It has also helped to empower Maasai women for them to participate and claim ownership to be registered members in the group ranches
Building public support for and awareness on PPR Services with a human rights approach : community awareness campaign
Get PDFBeauty salons serve as safe community spaces where those who come to avail services often discuss/share their personal stories and domestic concerns. Having developed outreach in communities through its paralegals, Dastak saw this as an opportunity to improve knowledge on marriage rights and outreach of its services by providing basic training and information material to beauticians/salon owners and to enable them to guide their female clients as well as their employees to resources and knowledge concerning matters related to marriage and domestic violence
Guide to registration of communities and community land in Kenya
Get PDFThe guide provides training material on: Principles and values guiding registration of community land; Preparing Communities for registration of land; Implementation of community education and awareness programmes; Procedures for registration of unregistered community land; Procedures for Registration of Community Land from Group Ranches. This process for the development of community land law was long and treacherous. Communities were responsible for organizing and initiating the process of registering their land rights. The preamble of the guide is to create awareness of marginalized and oppressed communities and to build on community processes of organization, such as those of the pastoralist community
PhotoVoice highlight photos from Kenya
No full textThis is a collection of photos taken during the PhotoVoice project in Kenya
IPCC’s sixth assessment report : impacts, adaptation options and investment areas for a climate-resilient southern Africa
No full textCDKN – with the African Climate and Development Initiative, SouthSouthNorth and ODI – has launched a new series of factsheets that distil data, trends and analysis from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report most relevant to Africa’s five sub-regions: Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, southern Africa and West Africa. This in response to demand expressed by our partners in Africa for more country and sub-regional information.Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the NetherlandsUK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO
Video 2 - Interview IECS-CSEA
No full textThis video is an interview with the Director for Research in Epidemiology and Public Health and the Director of Research for the Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa
Planning for climate resilience in Bangladesh : a training manual for local governments
No full textClimate change-induced hazards, such as rising temperature, uncertain rainfall, sea-level rise, heat stress and floods are imposing significant stresses, leading to disruption of infrastructure and other socio-ecological systems in urban and rural areas. Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to climate change due to its low elevation and high population density. Moreover, improper planning, inadequate adaptive capacity, and insufficient preparedness of the coastal regions result in loss and damage to infrastructure as well as human lives. However, there is a growing awareness among national and local governments in Bangladesh about the need to initiate actions to build socially inclusive climate resilience at the local level. This is facilitated by the development of a climate resilience action plan that promotes collective action. In this context, ICLEI has developed this training manual under the CDKN’s Knowledge Accelerator Programme to assist local authorities, decision-makers and practitioners in preparing a gender-responsive climate resilient strategy that can address climate mitigation and adaptation aspects.Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherland
Economic recovery from Covid-19 : prospects for sub-Saharan Africa
No full textGovernments seek to return to pre-Covid levels of economic activity, and there is much discussion on how to build back ‘greener’. Lauren Hermanus looks at what is happening to achieve a green Covid recovery, and what is missing from current plans.Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherland