The Market Access for Sustainable Development: Pro-poor & inclusive value chain development short course will be held from 5 November to 23 November 2012 at Wageningen in The Netherlands.
The training programme is organized by the Centre for Development Innovation at Wageningen University and Research Centre. Candidates from the following developing countries can apply for fellowship opportunity to participate in this course through the Nuffic – Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP).
List of eligible countries for NFP: Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Autonomous Palestinian Territories, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, DR. Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Kenya, Kosovo, Macedonia, Mali, Moldova, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Surinam, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
This international course is an introduction to how markets can be used as tools to alleviate poverty. The course aims at assisting in finding answers to two interrelated questions:
- How can the poor effectively engage in market development?
- How can the poor access markets better with their products?
The aims and objectives of the course are:
- Strengthen competencies in the area of market access by differentiating between issues related to market participation, chain governance and institutional change
- Introduce participants to the conceptual frameworks related to market development which can be used to identify pro-poor development opportunities
- Support policy makers, development practitioners and professional service providers in their new role as market facilitators
- Improve the understanding of the factors influencing chain dynamics
- Provide tools and instruments to develop marketled, pro-poor and/or sustainable development interventions.
The deadline to submit applications for securing fellowships for this course through The Netherlands Fellowship Programme is 1 May 2012. For more information, visit this link.
Shem Adah says
Developing or emerging economy indeed needs knowledge acquisition opportunities such as this to be able to transfer back to their various countries development programmes. Sustainable development is never in abstract, it has to be practical, you must know were the gaps are, apply the need solution to be able to get the required out come. It is imperative that, poverty, unemployment, security has become common and problem for our Government to handle alone. As such, every one must take Nation building, the fight against poverty, insecurity and unemployment as a collective responsibility, it is in this light that sustainable development becomes a reality. Hence, my interest is to see that my local community have an improved access to health services, security, reduction in poverty through food security. A little girl in my home town wakes up as early as 4am in search for water to drink, and for household use. she gets back 7am, to get set for school… when she gets to school and performance becomes low.Such hard conditions is what development programmes need to address.
thanks