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      Meeting-ID: 997 7105 1114
      Code: 004641

    • Sub-Saharan Africa is home to more than one billion people. This region has the highest population growth in the world. The dynamics of economic and social change are enormous, the challenges no less so, and tackling this challenge will have repercussions for the entire world.

      The example of Rwanda, the smallest country in the region in terms of area and population, will provide an insight into the opportunities and limits of international development cooperation. Rwanda „has achieved a great deal since the genocide in 1994: substantial investments into its social and economic infrastructure have led to dynamic economic growth and major progress has been made in reducing poverty as well as providing health care and educational services“ (cf. KfW Development Bank). But despite the positive developments, Rwanda is still a very poor country and still need international support.

  • Day One - Thu 1st of december 2022

    On the first day of the seminar, Christine Nyiramana and Emmanuel Niyibizi, both lecturers at the Protestant University in Rwanda, will give an insight into the current situation in Rwanda's education and social system.

  • Day Two - Thu 8th of december 2022

    The second day will be dedicated to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, which provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.

  • In the meantime

    After day one and two, a period of several weeks is planned to deepen the participants' own questions. The students work together in small, internationally mixed working groups. Possible contents of the self-activity are the reflection

    - on development cooperation projects between countries of the global South and North (such as Bread for the world, Misereor, KOICA (Korean International Cooperation Agency), GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), KfW Development Bank, IMPEQ (Educational Quality in Developing Countries),

    - on didactic projects within the framework of "Education for All", "Education for Sustainable Development" or "Global Learning".

    The participants can also pursue their own questions. The self-study phase is accompanied by the lecturers.

    The work assignment is to create a presentation for day three and present it for discussion

  • Day Three - Fr 13th of december 2022

    The third day of the seminar will be devoted to the presentation of the student’s work and the discussion of different strategies for global social development. In addition, we have invited a guest speaker, Mr. Ngalula Tumba, who in his Master's thesis dealt with success factors of project-related development cooperation and derived recommendations for action for international development cooperation from an analysis of German projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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