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Future State researchers attend workshop in Jaipur
Centre Director Mick Moore, Programme One Convenor Hubert Schmitz and Egypt researcher Abla Abdel Latif were invited to attend the ‘Analysing the Economics and Politics of State Business Relations in Africa and India’ workshop in Jaipur. This workshop was an activity organised by the Institution for Pro-Poor Growth research consortium under the State Business Relations Programme; a programme which investigates a similar theme to our own PAPI Programme. Abla presented her work on CIPI in Egypt.
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News
Programme 1 - Public Action, Private Investment
In May Jing Gu presented some of her finding at a seminar series at Nottingham University. More info here
In June a workshop was held in Beijing in collaboartion with IPRCC/CASS. The “China and Africa: Development Cooperation in the Era of Global Financial Crisis” workshop formed part of the China in Africa project. It received plenty of press attention for example:
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/6675273.html
http://europafrica.net/2006/01/26/issue-27-26th-june-2009/
A brief report can be found here: http://www.iprcc.org.cn/article.php/en/550
DFID and FCO 's training programme entitled “Knowledge and Training Event of China’s Engagement of Africa” in Pretoria, South Africa, June 2009. Jing Gu was among a group of 20 international academic experts, convening from China, Africa and the UK to discuss the impact of China’s engagement with Africa.
Programme 2 - Collective Action, Social Accountability
The day-long event Issue Networks and Social Accountability in Health and Social Assistance in São Paulo was held by the Brazilian team of “Modes of Service Delivery, Collective Action, and Social Accountability” (Brazil-India) on August 28th, 2009 (at Polis, São Paulo). The team presented initial research findings to a mixed audience of 60 people from the health and social assistance sectors.
Paper Presentations:
Júlia Moretto Amâncio, Monika Dowbor, and Lizandra Serafim, "Poverty Reduction Programs and Local Collective Actors: Social Accountability in São Paulo." Paper presented at 14th Congress of the International Sociology Association-RC2, “Inequality, Inclusion and the Sense of Belonging,” São Paulo, Brazil, Aug 23-25th 2009.
Graziella Castello and Peter P. Houtzager, "How Society Permeates the State: Issue Networks in Health and Social Assistance, São Paulo." Paper presented at 14th Congress of the International Sociology Association-RC2, “Inequality, Inclusion and the Sense of Belonging,” São Paulo, Brazil, Aug 23-25th 2009.
The India team held a two major workshops during July. Reports will follow shortly.
Programme 3 - State Capacity, Financing the State and Informal Local Government Institutions
Research partners IDS Nairobi completed the project propsosal on Donor Proliferation. More to follow.
The Informal Local Governance Institutions project held its workshop in Kathmandu. The workshop proved very succesful in coordinating the different research components and in planning for future work.
Other News
Mick Moore attended the 'From curse to development' conference in Oslo in September.
We've been citied in the following 'Broker' article: Rethinking-state-building by Seth Kaplan.
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