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NCCR-North-South
Internal Website
For use by members of the NCCR North-South research network
All others please visit the NCCR North-South by clicking below:
External Website
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| NCCR North-South Video clips |
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On its external website, the NCCR North-South now features video clips of its Regional Coordinators, speaking about a particular aspect / outcome of their work.
All featured video clips can be found here.
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| SDC annual conference |
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How can climate change be reconciled with the right to development? That was the question at the centre of this year's annual conference of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation on 21 August. For videos/PDFs of the conference speeches:
www.deza.admin.ch
Conference photos
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Research Partnerships for Sustainable Development in Southeast Asia
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Highlights of the work conducted over the past four years in Southeast Asia are the focus of a brochure just out. The brochure Research Partnerships for Sustainable Development in Southeast Asia was published by the NCCR North-South team based in Bangkok.
>> Download (2.5mb) pdf |
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| Honorary Doctorate for the NCCR North-South Director |
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On 11 July 2009, Hans Hurni, Professor of Geography and Sustainable Development, Director of the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) and NCCR North-South Director, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree by Haramaya University, Ethiopia. The degree acknowledges his dedicated research in the agricultural sciences, in particular in the field of soil and water conservation, and his many years of work and commitment to the people of Ethiopia.
With 29,000 students, Haramaya University is one of the country's largest universities. Only very seldom does it award honorary doctorates to foreigners: this is only the second time in its over 50-year history. Hurni lived 10 years in Ethiopia with his family as of 1974, first as the director of the Simen National Park, then as the initiator and leader of a countrywide research network to combat soil erosion. His untiring dedication to the advancement of the country and the people of Ethiopia never ceased after this initial decade of work in the country.
For more information on the ceremony click here |
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| Dilemmas in Participatory Forest Management in Northwest Pakistan: A Livelihoods Perspective. |
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This book attempts to unterline the livelihoods perspective of participatory or joint forest management initiatives in NWFP. The main aim is to understand the linkages between rural livelihoods, the role forests play in the livelihoods and the impact of (changing) forest governance on these livelihoods.
The analysis revealed that in the NWFP model of joint forest management, the provincial Forest Department maintains the priorities of forest conservation, while local people's top priorities are to secure the financial means they require for living and related basic needs. The book shows that this divergence of expectations was not taken into consideration during the reform process. Mistrust and lack of effective communication between main stakeholders are identified as another factor hindering the effectiveness of the participatory approach. Likewise the interventions had not taken care to include the poor and marginalised sections of the community.
To order this publication, please contact Regina Kohler at the Division of Human Geography, Department of Geography, University of Zurich. |
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The National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCR)
are a research instrument of the Swiss National Science Foundation. |
The NCCR North-South is co-funded by the
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). |
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