Past events
Conferences
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1st Latin American conference on research and innovation for health
15 - 18 April 2008
This conference worked towards ensuring that research deals with the countries’ health priorities and contributes to equitable development in Latin America.
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Australasian Evaluation Society: 2008 International Conference - Evaluation: Adding Value.
08 - 12 September 2008
This conference aims to address how evaluation can enhance the value of programmes, policies and services in public, independent and private organisations.
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Social protection for the poorest in Africa - learning from experience
08 - 10 September 2008
Development Research & Training, the CPRC and the Brooks World Poverty Institute will co-host this international conference. The meeting will bring together practitioners, researchers and policy-makers involved in the development, design and implementation of social protection programmes, especially those which aim to address extreme and chronic poverty, with the aim of learning from existing programmes and informing the extension of social protection in Africa.
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The next decade - what are the big policy challenges?
06 - 08 November 2008
The 2008 research conference of the Association for Public Policy
Analysis and Management (APPAM) invites proposals for research papers,
panels, roundtables and workshops on current research about public
policy and management across disciplines, policy areas, and national
boundaries.
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Global Ministerial Forum for Health: strengthening research for health, development and equity
17 - 19 November 2008
The 2008 Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health is the
culmination of nearly 20 years of global efforts to focus research
towards improving the health of poor people.
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Asian Social Protection in Comparative Perspective
07 - 09 January 2009
Asia's growing economic and geopolitical importance has led to increased interest in its social protection and social welfare programs.
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Organising for social justice and poverty reduction
14 - 15 January 2009
Public action by and for disadvantaged people, undertaken by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other non-government actors, is increasingly significant at local and international levels.
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Beyond social inclusion: towards a more equal society?
22 - 23 January 2009
Organised by the Centre for Research in Social Policy, the conference will bring together national and international experts in social policy and the social sciences to examine the implications of inequalities for individuals, communities, nation states and international relations.
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Escaping the poverty traps conference
26 - 27 February 2009
This conference responded to the challenge to USAID and other development assistance agencies to find ways to connect the poor to economic growth.
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Broad-based innovations to address socio-economic challenges faced by South Africa
27 February 2009
A workshop to explore both both technological and non-technological aspects of innovation for socio-economic benefit
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Poverty and social protection conference 2009
11 - 13 March 2009
This conference will focus on issues of poverty and its eradication, social inequality, race relations and policy management and mismanagement with an international perspective.
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Perspectives on impact evaluation: Approaches to assessing development effectiveness
31 March - 02 April 2009
A conference focusing on determining how successful development initiatives have been and how evaluations can best be conducted to inform policies, strategies and interventions.
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World social science forum: One planet - worlds apart?
10 - 12 May 2009
The overall perspective of this conference is to explore:
The changing world and the challenges it presents to social science
The interface between social science and the changing world
The state of social science itself, as it seeks to confront the challenges.
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Better evidence for a better world
18 - 19 May 2009
Aims to review the effectiveness of interventions and the balance between good and harmful effects, in education, crime and justice, and social welfare. As underlined by the Commission on Social Determinants of health, education, protection from crime, and social welfare also clearly constitute the broader determinants of health. Will determine action needed outside of health care to improve life expectancy and health.
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36th International conference on global health
26 - 30 May 2009
The annual conference of the Global Health Council.
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Leading for health – evidence, policy and practice
16 - 18 June 2009
This year’s theme – Leading for health – evidence, policy and practice – will focus on how public health professionals translate their knowledge, skills and expertise into leading-edge public health practice, to shape the specialty to deliver health and wellbeing in the 21st Century.
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Policy futures – learning from the past?
29 June - 01 July 2009
The annual conference from the Social Policy Association.
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Promoting social development and diminishing inequality: Who must be responsible?
27 - 29 July 2009
With the growing presence of civil society associations and corporations as providers of social welfare outside the State, there is increasing attention to the roles that citizens, corporations and governments play in promoting social development and diminishing inequality. At the 16th ICSD International Symposium in Monterrey, Mexico, issues, challenges and solutions related to a shared responsibility among civil society, corporations and governments will be discussed.
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Rural development in South Africa: Repetition, revision and rethink
19 August 2009
The time of this presentation is from 12.15 to 13.30 and it is presented by Dr Moraka Nakedi Makhura, Head of Agricultural Economic Research and Innovation Services (AERIS), Land Bank.
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Innovation for a responsive public sector: Innovation conference 2009
27 - 28 August 2009
The theme for this year's conference looks at deepening the responsiveness of the public sector to citizens needs. This comes at a time when the country is officially in a recession. Despite the economic meltdown, services still need to be delivered. It is in this context that the public sector needs to explore innovative ways to deliver services and be ready to respond to the complex and ever changing needs of the citizens.
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PEGNet conference 2009: Policies for reducing inequality in the developing world
03 - 04 September 2009
The Poverty Reduction, Equity and Growth Network (PEGNet) annual conference will be held at the Institute for Social Studies. A prize will be awarded to best-practices in cooperation between
researchers and practitioners. This call therefore asks for submission
of papers in the specified areas as well as projects, programs
and initiatives eligible for this prize.
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Teenage fatherhood in South Africa: Issues, experiences and policy implications
08 September 2009
This seminar will take place from 12:30 - 13:30 and the presenters are Dr Sharlene Swartz and Professor Arvin Bhana, with an introduction by Professor Linda Richter. The book provides a fresh and in-depth portrait of impoverished young South African men who became fathers while teenagers. It provides space for their articulate and impassioned voices to be heard amidst the outcry against the absence of fathers, and offers insights into young fathers’ personal, emotional, financial and cultural struggles as they come to terms with fatherhood.
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Reclaiming the resources for health: building universal people centred health systems in East and Southern Africa
22 September 2009
This is the third EQUINET regional conference on equity in health in east and southern Africa. It offers a unique opportunity to hear original work and debate on the determinants of, challenges to and opportunities for equity in health
in this region.
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Inclusive growth, innovation and technological change: education, social capital and sustainable development
06 - 08 October 2009
GLOBELICS (Global Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems) is an international network of scholars who apply the concept of learning, innovation, and competence building system (LICS) as their framework and are dedicated to the strengthening of LICS in developing countries, emerging economies and societies in transition.
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The changing face of leadership and governance: Adapt, influence, sustain
07 - 09 October 2009
The 10th annual conference of the South African Association of Public Administration and Management (SAAPAM).
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Driving service delivery through collaborative and interactive government: The 8th Batho Pele Learning Network
04 - 06 November 2009
The Batho Pele Learning Network (BPLN) is a platform that promotes sharing and exchanging of experiences and lessons aimed at improving service delivery through the implementation of the White Paper on Transforming Public Service Delivery of 1997 (known as Batho Pele).
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Innovating for the health of all: Forum 2009
16 - 20 November 2009
The Global Forum for Health Resarch 2009 annual forum will take place in Havana, Cuba at the invitation of the Ministry of Health.
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Democracy, human rights and social justice in a new global dispensation - challenges and transformation
01 - 03 February 2010
A collaboration between Örebro University’s Research School Conditions of Democracy (Sweden) and the University of South Africa (UNISA)’s South African Research Chair in Development Education (South Africa).
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12th Winelands conference: Public leadership for added citizen value
15 - 19 March 2010
Biennial conference facilitated by the School of Public Management and Planning at the University of Stellenbosch.
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Art and social justice conference
21 - 24 March 2010
The Durban University of Technology and Art for Humanity is organising a three-day international conference on Art and Social Justice which will address a range of issues and themes relating to the arts in promoting human rights and social justice in society.
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Inequalities and social justice: BSA annual conference 2010
07 - 09 April 2010
The 2010 Annual Conference is the second year of the new conference format. It will be a less theme-led model to widen the participation of presenters and attendees.
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Dynamics of rural transformation in emerging economies
14 - 16 April 2010
This conference is based on the premise that the challenges faced in rural areas can be met successfully if strategies and policies are no longer rooted in the old paradigms of rural development.
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A conversation with Abahlali BaseMjondolo
29 April 2010
An opportunity to engage with issues of social exclusion of the poor from democratic processes, to create space to mobilise for supportive action.
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State capacity for development
11 May 2010
A high level seminar to be hosted by the Centre for Africa's Social Progress (CASP) at the Human Sciences Research Council.
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Proactive and responsive service delivery 2010-2015 conference
20 - 21 May 2010
The objective of this conference is to create an opportunity to engage on a number of issues related to service delivery.
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Deepening African regional governance: An assessment of the Pan African Parliament´s capacity to attract and grow legislative competence
02 June 2010
An HSRC Policy Dialogue which will investigate political and institutional challenges relating to the legislative competency of the Pan African Parliament. While the paper focuses on the PAP, it is hoped that this presentation will show some of the greater issues facing regional governance and regional integration in Africa.
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Sport, leisure and development in the 21st Century: Opportunities and challenges
13 - 16 June 2010
Congress sub-themes are as follows: Scoring at the grassroots: Sport, recreation and mega events; Sport, identity politics & social cohesion and Sport, migration and challenges for development in the era of globalsiation.
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Public management and accountability in South African public service: A (slow) work in progress
15 June 2010
An HSRC Policy Dialogue which aims to look at the New Public Management (NPM) framework embodied in the White Paper on the Transformation of Public Service Delivery - Batho Pele which is widely seen as the prescribed remedy for improving service delivery and mitigating diminishing public confidence.
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Heritage, regional development and social cohesion: International conference
22 - 24 June 2010
The overall theme for this conference is heritage, regional development and social cohesion. Cultural and natural heritage is a resource for development in many different ways for regional and local stakeholders. Tourism, leisure and out of classroom experiences come to mind naturally, but the possibilities and challenges go far beyond that. The agendas of social inclusion, lifelong learning for all and place management have a lot to gain from constructive use of heritage.
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Social policy in times of change
05 - 07 July 2010
The Social Policy Association’s 2010 annual conference will be held at the University of Lincoln.
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Building on the energy of our people - lessons from the S/E Africa on local community driven development
06 July 2010
South Africa has strong rhetoric about participatory development, for example, in the White Paper on Developmental Local Government and subsequently in the Municipal Systems Act. The reality is that in many areas we try and deliver to our people, and treat them as passive recipients of development. Government cannot make development happen - development happens because of the decisions and actions of our people, taking forward their lives and livelihoods. Government must provide the enabling conditions, which release the energy of our people - just look at Asia to see the potential of that energy unfolding. To reserve a seat, kindly RSVP by 2 July.
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Facing crises: Challenges and opportunities confronting the third sector and civil society
07 - 10 July 2010
The ninth international conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR) will respond to the expanding role of civil society over the past several decades. Whether in more open or more authoritarian environments, the third sector is playing an important role in providing social services, contributing to policy development, advocating for the rights of poor and oppressed people and for women's rights, contributing to livelihoods and reduction of poverty when the state and market cannot or will not do so, making international aid more effective, growing social capital, contributing to social enterprise and social entrepreneurship, and in many other ways.
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Pathways through the education and training system: Do we need a new model?
20 July 2010
Analyses conducted by ESSD reveal major obstacles in the education pathway system. The majority of learners entering FET colleges, nursing training institutions and learnerships have already achieved a National Senior Certificate prior to enrolment. Higher education (HE) is seen as the only viable option for further learning, contributing to the inverted triangle phenomenon in which a small FET college system plays second fiddle to a much larger HE system struggling to retain inadequately prepared students.
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Making education matter: South African Association of Health Educationalists conference
22 - 24 July 2010
The 2010 SAAHE conference is hosted by the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand in collaboration with the Tshwane University of Technology and the Universities of Johannesburg, Limpopo, North West and Pretoria. It is the first year that the SAAHE conference is held outside of the Western Cape.
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Government-wide monitoring and evaluation policy: Strategies towards anti-corrupt practices and better service delivery
26 July 2010
A seminar presentation by Edwin Okey Ijeoma, Professor of Policy and Public sector Economics in the School of Public Management and Development at the University of Fort Hare, South Africa.
Courses
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Writing policy-related briefings: a course for government officials and practitioners to improve policy brief writing
13 - 17 October 2008
The Economic Policy Research Institute at the University of Cape Town is offering this course in collaboration with the Overseas Development Institute. The course aims to help participants to develop their own ideas and materials into briefing notes.
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Designing and implementing social transfer programmes: a course for policymakers, government officials and practitioners around the world
26 October - 09 November 2008
The Economic Policy Research Institute is offering this two-week course in collaboration with HelpAge International, the University of Maastricht and the University of Cape Town. Aims to provide participants with an in-depth understanding of the conceptual and practical issues involved in the development of social
transfer programmes.
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Designing and Implementing Social Transfer Programmes
26 July - 08 August 2009
The Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI) together with the Maastricht University and the University of Cape Town (UCT) is offering a two-week course, Designing and Implementing Social Transfer Programmes, aimed at providing participants with an in-depth understanding of the conceptual and practical issues involved in the development of social transfer programmes.
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Managing sustainable livelihoods for the poor: training course
31 August - 03 September 2009
Khanya-aicdd and the Centre for Development Support (CDS), University of the Free State are offering a 4-day Certificate Course called Managing sustainable livelihoods: understanding and applying the sustainable livelihoods approach (SLA). Please note the application deadline is 14 August 2009.
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Sustainable livelihoods for development
01 - 04 February 2010
A 4-day accredited certificate course for managers, development practitioners and advisers from government and development agencies who want to understand the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) and how to apply it in their work. This course is accredited at South Africa National Qualifications Framework (NQF) Level 5.
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Facilitation of Community-based Planning
15 - 26 February 2010
A 12-day accredited graduate level course that aims to ground Municipal Managers, IDP Managers and Participation Managers in the methodology and art of facilitating participatory Ward Plans, and their integration into IDPs. This course has been accredited at South Africa National Qualifications Framework (NQF) Level 5. NOTE: The application deadline is 5 February.
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Managing for impact in development
08 - 19 March 2010
A 12-day accredited graduate level course for development programme and project managers who want to learn how to design, implement and manage holistic, pro-poor development interventions that will achieve greater impact. This course has been accredited at South Africa National Qualifications Framework (NQF) Level 8. NOTE: The application deadline for this course is 29 January 2010.
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Effective policy analysis for sustainable development
21 - 23 June 2010
Aims to equip participants with tools necessary to design, analyze and implement effective public policy programmes in a complex socio-political setting.