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1 DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE INSTITUTE SESSION 2014 Building more resilient societies Human security and risk management in Africa Programme Director Dr Mamadou Goïta Dakar/Senegal, 4 th 14 th August 2014

2 WEEK ONE : 4 th to 8 st August Dates and time Activities Resource Persons Monday 4 th August 9:00 10:30 CODESRIA Secretariat Welcome to the Participants : a. A brief history of CODESRIA:, institutional mandate and mission b. CODESRIA intellectual agenda and the place of the Democratic Governance Institute programme Introduction of the Director and the two resource persons of the 2014 Session. Ebrima Sall Executive Secretary CODESRIA Self-Introduction by laureates to the 2014 Democratic Governance Institute and Statement of Motivation for their Participation Operational tips for Institute participants and presentation of Training Programme Laureates Aminata Diaw Senior Programme Officer, Training, Grants and Fellowships Programme 10: :00 11:10 11:10 11:20 11:20 11:30 /photo group Presentation of the Research Programme CODESRIA s Publications Policy and Expected Publications Outcome of 2014 Gender Institute CODICE and its services Carlos Cardoso Senior Programme Officer Research Alexander Bangirana Programme Officer Publications Abou Moussa Ndongo 11:30 1: 00 2:00 3:00 3:00 4:00 Contract Signing and Disbursement of Allowances break Rapporteur : Elise Espérance Yotchou Nana «The Analysis of complex phenomena : from the Positivist Model to the Interactional or interrelational model applied to human security and resilience in African Societies. CODESRIA Accounts Unit Mamadou Goïta 2

3 Tuesday 5 th August 10:00 11:00 11:00 11:30 11:30 12:00 12:00-1:00 1: 00-2:00 3:30 6:00 Wednesday 6 th August 10:00 11:00 11:00-11:30 11:30-12:00 12:00 1: 00 1: 00 2:00 3:30 6: 00 Rapporteur : Artwell Nhamachena Security and Society in Africa: Emerging Issues A Study of South Africa s Food Insecurity Threat: Lessons of Resilience from Small-Scale Farmers of Indigenous Vegetables in KwaZulu-Natal Climate Change and Gender Adaptation to Livelihoods,: A Case of Agriculture in Kisoro District Rapporteur : George Tee Forpoh East African Societies and Regional Security Illegal Chines Gold Miners and Human Security in Ghana : An Assessment of Institutional Responses Africa and the Wider Atlantic Basin Maritime Domain Securitization: Issues of Maritime (In) Security Godwin Murunga Siphesihle Bongwa Dumisa Julius Niringiyimana Godwin Murunga Richard Asante Martin Collins Uadiale 3

4 Thursday 7 th August 11:30 12:00 12:00 1:00 2:30-3:30 3:30 4:00 4:00 5:00 5:00 6:00 Friday 8 th August 11:30 12:00 12:00-1:00 3:30 6:00 Rapporteur : Siphesihle Bongwa Dumisa Emerging Methodological Concern The Conduct of a Research on Governance System and the Proliferation of small Arm and Light Weapons: The Case of Mano River Basin Are Petitioners makers of Rain? Rains, Worlds and Survival in Conflict-Torn Buhera, Zimbabwe Governance of climate change in meeting the challenges of adaptation in Central Benin : Actors of Sacalou Commune and their play Rapporteur : Jean Roger Abessolo Nguema The Difference of the Difference Approach as a Means of Monitoring Change Indicators in the Promotion of Human Security and Risk Analysisy Combating Poverty and the Almajiri Crisis: A Human Security Approach to Structural and Direct Violence in North-East Nigeria Religious Beliefs, Practices, Values and Politics in Zimbabwe, 1975 The Present 4 Godwin Murunga George Tee Forpoh Artwell Nhamachena Fanès Vinagbaa Babatoundé Azalou Tingbe Mamadou Goïta Peter Inalegwu Awodi Eliot Tofa

5 WEEK TWO : 11 au 14 août 2014 Dates and Times Activities Resource Persons Monday 11th August Rapporteur : Issoufou Baggnian 11:30 12:00 12:00 1:00 3:30 4:30 4:30 5:30 5:30 6:00 Tuesday 12 th August 11:30 12:30 12:30 1:30 Discrimination in access to resources by women and food insecurity in DRC Health Security and management of epidemiological risks in a migration context in Cameroon Human Security and risk management of humanitarian crises in the Horn of Africa Laurate presentation Joking kinship relations as peace factor in Africa : case study of the Wawa between the Temba and the Moba-Gourma (Togo) Rapporteur : Fanès Azalou Tingbe Case Study Tea/Coffee Break Method and Theories Edmond Mokuinema Bomfie Jean Roger Abessolo Nguema Elise Espérance Yotchou Nana Djamilou Ouro-Agoro Edmond Mokuinema Bomfie Edmond Mokuinema Bomfie 1:30 2:30 2:30 3:00 How do African populations build their social resilience to collectively manage Africa? Building of social resilience in the Southern 5 Issoufou Baggnian

6 Strip of Niger 3:00 3:30 3:30 4:00 4:00 5:00 5:00-6:00 Wednesday 13 th August 11:30 12:00 12:00 1:00 3:00 5:00 Thursday 14 th August 9:00 11:00 11:00 1:00 15th - 16th August The issue of poverty in Morocco : What governance of poverty reduction policies. Towards the development of a model explaining poverty resistance factors : an empirical and theoretical analysis Rapporteur : Peter Inalegwu Awodi Food Sovereignty : the resistance of people against the global dominant model of privatisation of the food and nutrition system Local strategies and flood managment by the population of the Logone Vally in Yagoua: Cameroon Far North Déjeuner Round Table : Building more resilient societies: human security and risk management in Africa Evaluation and conclusion Closing ceremony (CODESRIA) - Distribution of certificates - Cocktail Depart ure of participants Adil Moussebbih Mamadou Goïta Antoine Faidi 6

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