DAAD/NRF Joint In-Country Masters and Doctoral Scholarship 2018

For South African Students the National Research Foundation (NRF) in partnership with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) offers In-country Masters and Doctoral scholarships for postgraduate studies at South African Universities.

South African applicants for Master and PhD studies at the South African - German Centre for Development Research are encouraged to apply for such a scholarship parallel to their application at CDR.

For more information please have a look here.

The deadline for joint DAAD/NRF scholarships is already 28 July 2017.

6 new Scholarship Holder at the SA-GER CDR

In 2017 6 new Scholarship Holder commenced their studies at our Centre!

Out of 425 applicants the selection committee chose from left to right Irene Naymu (Kenya), Joy Mwaniki (Kenya), Linice Sanga (Malawi), Boniswa Gelese (South Africa) and Faisal Haginour (Somaliland) for a Scholarship. Fikrewold Yeneneh is missing on the foto.

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New Publication of Davison Muchadenyika

Our PhD Student Davison Muchadenyika again published a paper which is titled: Politics and the practice of planning: The case of Zimbabwean cities. It can be accessed here.

New Publication of CDR Member

Davison Muchadenyika, PhD candidate at CDR published a new paper titled 'Multi-Donor Trust Funds and Fragile States: Assessing the Aid Effectiveness of the Zimbabwe Multi-Donor Trust Fund'.

Research for this paper was largely conducted during Davison worked on his Master thesis for the Bochum Programme of Development Management.

6 new scholarship holders commenced their studies in January 2016

In august 2015 the selection committee selected 4 Master and 2 PhD students out of 478 applications for a Centre scholarship for 2 (MA) respectively 3 (PhD) years. In January 2016 the 6 new scholarship holders commenced their studies at the School of Government and the Institute for Social Development (ISD).

Foto from left: Samuel Kapingidza, Dorcas Okyere, Jeremy Waiswa, Metron Ziga, Phoene Oware and Evans Sakyi Boadu.

Evans Sakyi Boadu from Ghana was selected for the Master in Public Administration, whereas Metron Ziga from Zimbabwe, Phoene Oware from Kenya and Dorcas Okyere from Ghana started studying the Master in Development Studies.
Jeremy Waiswa (Uganda) and Samuel Kapingidza (Zimbabwe) both started their research projects at ISD in order to obtain the PhD in International Development Studies.
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New Publications of SA-GER CDR Members

Our PhD Student Davison Muchadenyika recently published 3 papers, which are partly available online:

Muchadenyika, D. 2015. Land for Housing: A Political Resource - Reflections from Zimbabwe's urban areas. Journal of Southern African Studies, 41 (6): 1219-1238.

Muchadenyika, D. 2015. Women Struggles and Large-scale Diamond Mining in Marange, Zimbabwe. The Extractive Industries and Society, 2 (2015): 714-721.

Muchadenyika, D. 2015. Slum Upgrading and Inclusive Municipal Governance in Harare, Zimbabwe: New Perspectives for the Urban Poor. Habitat International, 48 (2015): 1-10.

Prof. John J. Williams and Dr. Kennedy Alatinga published a paper as well:

Alatinga, Kennedy; Williams, John J. (2015): Towards Universal Health Coverage: Exploring the Determinants of Household Enrolment into National Health Insurance in the Kassena Nankana District, Ghana. GIDS, Vol. 12, No. 1&2, 2015: 88-105.

Graduation of our MADM students!

On 5th December 2015 we celebrated the graduation of our Master students who took part in the "Bochum Programme of Development Management" at the South African-German Centre for Development Research.

Congratulations to all of you!

Former MADM student Chifundo Patience Chilera has been named one of 26 Africa's Most Outstanding Emerging Women Leaders

We are very proud of our former MADM student Chifundo Patience Chilera, who has been named one of 26 Africa's Most Outstanding Emerging Women Leaders by the Moremi Initiative for Women Leadership in Africa. As a 2015 Fellow, she will be attending the Moremi Initiative Leadership, Empowerment and Development Institute hosted jointly with the University of Ghana in Accra, Ghana, this July.

This 2015 cohort of MILEAD Fellows, selected under a highly competitive process, represents Africa's most promising young women leaders with the courage and commitment to lead and shape the future of Africa. The criteria and process of selection was based on outstanding leadership promise, community service accomplishments and commitment to the advancement of women in Africa.

Ms. Chifundo Chilera's selection is in recognition of her remarkable leadership and contributions to youth development in Malawi.

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Coordination baton at the SA-GER CDR in new hands!

Ina Conradie, who has been working as the coordinator for the South African-German Centre for Development Research at UWC/Cape Town since the opening in 2008, is now leaving the Centre in order to focus on research as a post doc at UWC.

We wish to thank Ina Conradie very, VERY much for the great job she has been doing during these 7 years, for her great contribution as a team worker and her commitment.

Ina, it was a pleasure to work with you! We wish you all the very best for your future career and are sure that you will stay in touch with the Centre!!!

She passed the coordination baton to Grace Nkomo, who has been studying the Honours and MA in Development Studies at ISD and was the director of an NGO, helping children to deal with and prevent HIV and Child abuse, before.

New scholarship holders started in January 2015 at the SA-GER CDR

6 new scholarship holders started to study in January 2015 at the South African-German Centre of Development Research (SA-GER CDR)
Out of 243 applicants for the Master and 112 applicants for the PhD Programs offered at the SA-GER CDR, 4 Master students and 2 PhD students were selected in 2014 to commence their studies in January 2015. Davison Muchadenyika, who already did his Master Degree with the Centre, is now studying the PhD in Public Policy, whereas Rejoice Mabhena is studying the PhD in Development Studies. For the MA in Development Studies Maphelo Batyi, Kenechukwu Ibebuako and Christopher Katete commenced their studies. Muriel Adarkwa started studying the MA in Public Administration.

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