---------- Forwarded Date: 6 Jan 2017 15:34 Subject: Re: RVI Courses: Kenya elections | Bespoke courses | Annual Field Courses To: "elisabethjanaina" <[email protected]> Cc:
> > On 5 Jan 2017 20:09, "Rift Valley Institute" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> www.riftvalley.net/courses >> View in browser >> >> Kenya Elections course・Bespoke courses >> Annual field courses 2017 >> >> Kenya Elections course >> 22–23 February 2017 >> >> In February 2017, RVI will host a new and customized training course focused on the upcoming Kenyan elections. Designed and taught by leading Kenyan and international experts the course will outline and unpack complex electoral processes and political context for Kenya’s second post-devolution election set for August 2017. >> >> Syllabus overview >> Day 1: Contexts, Challenges and Risks >> >> Kenya’s democratic trajectory (1961-2016) >> Electoral infrastructure: the IEBC and the judiciary >> Electoral stresses: identity politics and conflict >> Elections devolved: the county contests >> >> Day 2: Monitoring Elections, Managing Outcomes >> >> The media, civil society and peace campaigns >> Election monitoring and technologies >> Managing and mediating contested outcomes >> Past experience and best practice >> APPLY HERE >> >> The course fee is USD1,700 per person, payable in advance. Participants will receive additional learning resources in advance of the course. The fee is inclusive of lunch and refreshments. Accommodation and travel are not included. A 30 per cent discount is available to Kenyan civil society and community-based organisations. >> >> For further information about this course, please contact [email protected]. >> >> Bespoke courses >> >> The RVI is a market leader in the provision of graduate-level, professional training on sub-Saharan Africa. The Institute runs a regular programme of annual field courses and delivers bespoke training courses upon request. In 2016 alone, the RVI held courses for UNICEF offices in Ethiopia, Burundi, South Sudan, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania and for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. >> >> Bespoke courses are co-designed and tailored to suit the specific interests and requirements of the recipient organization. They are taught by leading experts in the field and usually take a regional or thematic focus. >> >> ENQUIRE NOW >> >> Annual field courses 2017 >> June 2017 >> >> In June, the Rift Valley Institute will return to Entebbe, Uganda, to hold the 2017 annual field courses. Now in their fourteenth year, each course examines a different sub-region within eastern and Central Africa: Sudan and South Sudan, the Great Lakes and the Horn of Africa. They offer a dawn-to-dusk programme of lectures, seminars, panel discussions and debates. Bringing together new research, fresh analysis, established and emerging experts, the courses consider current political and development challenges in their historical, social and economic context. >> >> APPLY HERE >> >> The courses are designed for diplomats, development practitioners, researchers and the private sector—both those living and working in the region or those about to start. The 2017 field courses will be held in Entebbe, Uganda in June 2017. The fee for each course is USD4,250, payable in advance. If you would like to participate in an RVI field course, you can apply online now. Applications are considered in order of receipt. For more information please see this page. >> >> >> Sudan & South Sudan >> 4 - 9 June >> >> The course covers all areas of Sudan, South Sudan, and the borderlands between them. It analyses the causes of current conflicts in the Sudans and the prospects for resolution. The Co-Directors of Studies for the course will be Magdi el-Gizouli and Nicki Kindersley. >> >> Great Lakes >> 11 - 16 June >> >> The course examines current developments in Rwanda, Burundi and the DRC, the roots of conflict in the region and the challenges to institutional reform. The course is in English and French, with simultaneous translation. The Co-Directors of Studies for the course will be Jason Stearns and Yolande Bouka. >> >> Horn of Africa >> 18 - 23 June >> >> The course examines the Somali-speaking lands, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and northern Kenya. It explores the historical and contemporary features that make the Horn the world’s most crisis-ridden region. 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