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International Summer School
Constructing Research Frameworks on the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa’s
Policy Environment
Programme
University of Cape Coast (UCC), Cape Coast, Ghana
IDS Conference Room
2nd - 14th April 2018
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Monday, 2 April 2018
______________________________________________________________ All day Arrival 20:00 Welcome Dinner
Venue: Sasakawa Restaurant
Tuesday, 3 April 2018
______________________________________________________________ 09:00 – 10:30 Official Opening 10:30 – 11:00 Tea and Coffee Break 11:00 – 12:00 Participants’ Introduction and Expectations
Aleksandra Draganic, Christian Möllmann 12:00 – 13:30 Topic I: The Sustainable Development Goals: History and critique
Aram Ziai
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch Break 14:30 – 16:00 Epistemology: Philosophy of science and its relevance for research
Nancy Lundgren 16:00 – 16:15 Tea and Coffee Break 16:15 – 18:00 Parallel sessions: Research project presentations
Session A: o The Politics of Forest Governance in South-Western Nigeria
Olugbenga Falase; Comment: Aram Ziai o People’s Resistance to Development and Implications for Accountability: The
Case of Ghana’s Kwabenya Landfill Loretta Baidoo; Comment: Aram Ziai
Session B: o Cultural Constructions of Child Sexual Abuse: A study of the Teshie-Nungua
Municipality Asafo Solace; Comment: Nancy Lundgren
o Fishing communities' adaptation to climate change Kobina Esia-Donkoh; Comment: Nancy Lundgren
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Wednesday, 4 April 2018 ___________ ______________________________________________________________ 08:30 – 09:00 Recap/Reflections on previous day 09:00 – 10:45 Theory and methodology I: Critical policy studies Franziska Müller
10:45 – 11:00 Tea and Coffee Break 11:00 – 12:45 Theory and methodology II: Postcolonial studies Aram Ziai
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch Break 14:00 – 15:45 Topic II: SDG 7: Researching the climate-energy-development nexus in Africa
Franziska Müller 15:45 – 16:00 Tea and Coffee Break 16:00 – 17:45 Parallel sessions: Research project presentations
Session A: o Conceptualizing Obstacles to Local Integration of Refugees in a Developing
Country - Samuel Kofi Miledzi Agblorti; Comment: Franziska Müller o Extractivism and Local Workforce: Subjectivities of Young Engineers in Neuquén,
Argentina - Joaquín Bernáldez; Comment: Franziska Müller Session B: o Involvement of Locals in the Authority Structures in Local Governance in Ghana
Shaibu Bukari; Comment: Frauke Banse o Informality and Organizing among Stone Quarry Workers in the Central Region of
Ghana Moses Segbenya; Comment: Frauke Banse
o Re-thinking the Agrarian Question in South Africa: Contestation and Alternatives in the South African Agro-Food System Andrew Bennie; Comment: Pedro Duarte (tbc)
Session C: o State Autonomy and the Cadre Fraction in Ecuador: from the “Juliana Revolution”
to the “Citizens Revolution” Jorge Enrique Forero; Comment: Aram Ziai
o Valuing Cultural Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity Conservation: The Case of the Xunankab Bees - Mauricio Lopez Barreto; Comment: Aram Ziai
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Thursday, 5 April 2018 ____________ ______________________________________________________________ 08:30 – 09:00 Recap/ Reflections on previous day 09:00 – 10:45 Methods I: Conducting focused and efficient literature reviews
Francis Enu-Kwesi
10:45 – 11:00 Tea and Coffee Break 11:00 – 12:45 Methods II: Policy analysis and comparative research methods
Frauke Banse 12:45 – 14:00 Lunch Break 14:00 – 15:45 Methods IV: Ethnographic approaches
Ben Scully 15:45 – 16:00 Tea and Coffee Break 16:00 – 17:45 Introduction to the Concept of Social Laboratory and Preparation for Field Trip
Angela Akorsu
Friday, 6 April 2018 ____________ ______________________________________________________________ 8:30 – 15:00 Field trips to UCC/IDS Social Laboratory
16:00 – 18:00 Late Lunch/ Early dinner 19:00 – 21:00 International Cultural Night
Saturday, Sunday, 7-8 April 2018 ____________ ______________________________________________________________
ICDD Group Meetings / Excursions
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Monday, 9 April 2018 ____________ ______________________________________________________________ 08:30 – 10:30 Presentations and discussion on the field trip experience Angela Akorsu
10:30 – 11:00 Tea and Coffee Break 11:00 – 12:45 Topic IV: SDG 8: Employment and decent work
Christoph Scherrer
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch Break 14:00 – 15:45 Topic III: SDG 5: Women’s rights and gender relations in Africa
Akua Britwum
15:45 – 16:00 Tea and Coffee Break 16:00 – 17:45 Parallel sessions: Research project presentations
Session A:
o Making Digital Money Work in a Cash Economy: An Empirical Study of the Swazi MTN Mobile Money Ecosystem in Rural and Urban Swaziland Emma Mavodza; Comment: Christoph Scherrer
o Conflict Mediation and Resolution at the Akan Ohemaa’s Court Lydia Amoah; Comment: Christoph Scherrer Session B:
o Sustainability in the Sea Buckthorn Supply Chain in the Karakorum Mountains of Pakistan Arslan Nawaz; Comment: Joseph Matofari
o Land Resource Conflicts and Wellbeing: A Study of the Farmer-Herder Conflicts in the Afram Plains of Ghana Sabina Appiah-Boateng; Comment: Joseph Matofari Session C:
o Beneath the surfaces of informal mines: the experiences of zama zama women miners Nomaswazi Mthombeni; Comment: Francis Enu-Kwesi
o Citizen Participation in Social Sustainability of Subaltern Communities: A Study of Mukuru Kayaba Slum, Nairobi County, Kenya Ruth Murumba; Comment: Francis Enu-Kwesi
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Tuesday, 10 April 2018 ____________ ______________________________________________________________ 08:30 – 09:00 Recap/Reflections on previous day 09:00 – 10:45 Methods V: Gender-sensitive analysis
Akua Britwum
10:45 – 11:00 Tea and Coffee Break 11:00 – 12:45 Topic V: SDG 2: Food security
Joseph Matofari
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch Break 14:00 – 15:45 Methods III: Interviews in qualitative research
Akua Britwum
15:45 – 16:00 Tea and Coffee Break 16:00 – 17:45 Parallel sessions: Research project presentations
Session A: o The Contradictions of Brazilian Social Policy
Juliana Moreira; Comment: Pedro Duarte o Collaboration between Traditional and Local Government Authorities in the Fight
Against Illegal Mining Musah Dankwah; Comment: Christoph Scherrer
Session B: o Commercialisation of Childcare in Urban Households
Paternal and Maternal Characteristics Influencing Childcare Arrangements P. Serwaa Afrifa; Comment: Aishah Namukasa
o Migrants, Work and Identity: A Study in Mumbai Shahana Purveen; Comment: Aishah Namukasa
Session C: o Nutritive Value, Bio-Economics and Biotechnological Intervention in Alternative
Pig Feed Use and Producers' Decent Work Deficits in Kenya Jonah Muthui; Comment: Justus Ochieng
o Effect of Mental Health Disorders on Farmer Productivity: A case of small holder farmers in Ghana - Bernice Agyeiwaa Boateng; Comment: Justus Ochieng
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Wednesday, 11 April 2018 ____________ ______________________________________________________________ 08:30 – 09:00 Recap/Reflections on previous day 09:30 – 10:45 Methods VI: Measurements and Causes Christoph Scherrer
10:45 – 11:00 Tea and Coffee Break 11:00 – 12:45 Methods VII: Statistical Tools and Assumptions in Quantitative Analysis
Francis Enu-Kwesi
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch Break 14:00 – 15:45 Practice I: North-South Cooperation in Higher Education
Lena Leumer
15:45 – 16:00 Tea and Coffee Break 16:00 – 17:45 Parallel sessions: Research project presentations
Session A: o Examining Participatory Approaches to Realising the Benefits of Sustainable
Agriculture in Ghana’s Upper-West Region Alexis Beyuo; Comment: Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic
o Improving Income and Nutrition in Africa by Enhancing Vegetable-Based Farming and Food Systems Justus Ochieng; Comment: Gorana Kranjac-Berisavljevic
Session B: o Theoretical Framework of Labour Mobility in the Labour Surplus Economy
Cheng Li; Comment: Pedro Duarte o Rural Livelihoods, Social Welfare and Public Employment Programs in
Mozambique; Through the Prism of Public Works: Citizenship, Labor and Welfare in Mozambique, 1878 - 2017 Ruth Castel-Branco; Comment: Pedro Duarte
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Thursday, 12 April 2018 ____________ ______________________________________________________________ 08:30 – 09:00 Recap/ Reflections on previous day 09:00 – 10:45 Practice II: Gender and equality in Africa
Wangui wa Goro
10:45 – 11:00 Tea and Coffee Break 11:00 – 12:45 Practice III: German development cooperation in Africa
Alan Walsch
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch Break 14:00 – 15:45 Sustainable agricultural production and development: Meeting the SDG 15 in
Ghana Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic
15:45 – 16:00 Tea and Coffee Break 16:00 – 17:45 Parallel sessions: Research project presentations
Session A: o An Analysis of the Implementation of the Gender Equality Policy framework in the
Provincial Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, KwaZulu-Natal Eyerusalem Amare Wolde; Comment: Wangui wa Goro
o Social Protection and Rural Livelihoods in the Wa West District of Ghana: A Gender Perspective John Oti-Amoah; Comment: Wangui wa Goro
Session B: o Assessment of Decent Work Initiatives along the Agricultural Value Chain in
Ghana: Comparing and Improving Effects for Economic and Social Upgrading Evans Appiah Kissi; Comment: Raja Usman Khalid
o Institutions for Communal Forest Use and Management Grace Rusinamhodzi; Comment: Raja Usman Khalid
Session C: o Women Empowerment, Nutritional Status of Children and Household Food
Security in Ghana Gloria Essilfie; Comment: A. Adomako Ampofo
o Maternal Near-miss Due to Induced Abortion in Kenya Joshua Amo-Adjei; Comment: A. Adomako Ampofo
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Friday, 13 April 2018 ____________ ______________________________________________________________ 08:30 – 09:00 Recap/Reflections on previous day 09:00 – 10:45 Using software for qualitative analysis I
Akwasi Kumi-Kyereme 10:45 – 11:00 Tea and Coffee Break 11:00 – 13:00 Roundtable discussion: Research for sustainable livelihoods and decent work
in Africa Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Christoph Scherrer, Kwabena Nyarko Otoo
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break 14:00 – 15:45 Using software for qualitative analysis II
Akwasi Kumi-Kyereme
15:45 – 16:00 Tea and Coffee Break 16:00 – 17:00 Working group meetings 19:00 Closing Dinner
Saturday, 14 April 2018 ____________ ______________________________________________________________ 10:00 – 12:30 Oral and Written Evaluation
Aleksandra Draganic, Christian Möllmann
DEPARTURE _______________________________________________________________________________
This Summer School is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) under its programme ‘Higher Education
Excellence in Development Cooperation’ (exceed).
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Participants
Last name, first name (title) Status Institution Email
Adomako Ampofo, Akosua (Prof. Dr.) Faculty University of Ghana [email protected]
Afrifa, P. Serwaa PhD University of Ghana [email protected]
Agblorti, Samuel (Dr.) Postdoc Univ. of Cape Coast [email protected]
Akorsu, Angela (Dr.) Faculty Univ. of Cape Coast [email protected]
Akwasi Kumi-Kyereme (Prof) Faculty Uni. Of Cape Coast [email protected]
Amo-Adjei, Joshua (Dr.) Postdoc APHRC [email protected]
Amoah, John Oti PhD (ICDD) Univ. of Cape Coast [email protected]
Amoah, Lydia PhD University of Ghana [email protected]
Appiah-Boateng, Sabina PhD Univ. of Cape Coast [email protected]
Asafo, Solace PhD University of Ghana [email protected]
Baidoo, Loretta PhD Univ. of Cape Coast [email protected]
Banse, Frauke (Dr.) Faculty University of Kassel [email protected]
Bennie, Andrew PhD (ICDD) U. of the Witwatersrand [email protected]
Bernaldez, Joaquin PhD (ICDD) University of Kassel [email protected]
Beyuo, Alexis PhD University of Ghana [email protected]
Boateng, Bernice PhD University of Ghana [email protected]
Britwum, Akua (Prof. Dr.) Faculty Univ. of Cape Coast [email protected]
Bukari, Shaibu (Dr.) Postdoc Univ. of Cape Coast [email protected]
Castel-Branco, Ruth PhD (ICDD) U. of the Witwatersrand [email protected]
Dankwah, Musah PhD Univ. of Cape Coast [email protected]
Draganic, Aleksandra Staff ICDD [email protected]
Duarte, Pedro (Prof. Dr.) ICDD Alumni
Federal U. of Uberlândia [email protected]
Enu-Kwesi, Francis (Prof. Dr.) Faculty Univ. of Cape Coast [email protected]
Esia-Donkoh, Kobina (Dr.) Postdoc Univ. of Cape Coast [email protected]
Essilfie, Gloria PhD Univ. of Cape Coast [email protected]
Falase, Olugbenga Samuel PhD University of Ibadan [email protected]
Forero, Jorge PhD (ICDD) University of Kassel [email protected]
Khalid, Raja Usman (Dr.) ICDD Alumni
Information Technology University, Lahore
Kissi, Evans Apiah PhD (ICDD) University of Kassel [email protected]
Koomson, Frederick (Dr.) ICDD Alumni
Univ. of Cape Coast [email protected]
Kranjac-Berisavljevic Gordana (Prof) Faculty Univ. of Dev’t Studies [email protected]
Leumer, Lena Guest DAAD Ghana [email protected]
Li, Cheng PhD (ICDD) State Univ. of Campinas [email protected]
Lopez, Mauricio PhD (ICDD) U. Autónoma de Yucatán [email protected]
Lundgren, Nancy (Prof. Dr.) Faculty Univ. of Cape Coast [email protected]
Matofari, Joseph (Prof. Dr.) Faculty Egerton University [email protected]
Mavodza, Emma PhD U. of the Witwatersrand [email protected]
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Last name, first name (title)
Status
Institution
Möllmann, Christian Staff ICDD [email protected]
Moreira, Juliana PhD (ICDD) State Univ. of Campinas [email protected]
Mthombeni, Nomaswazi PhD (ICDD) U. of the Witwatersrand [email protected]
Mudombi-Rusinamhodzi, Grace PhD (ICDD) University of Kassel [email protected]
Müller, Franziska (Dr.) Faculty University of Kassel [email protected]
Murumba, Ruth PhD Moi University [email protected]
Muthui, Jonah PhD (ICDD) Egerton University [email protected]
Namukasa, Aishah (Dr.) ICDD Alumni
University of Kassel [email protected]
Nawaz, Arslan PhD (ICDD) Univ. of Kassel/UAF [email protected]
Ochieng, Justus (Dr.) ICDD Alumni
World Vegetable Center [email protected]
Otto, Kwabena Nyarko (Dr.) Guest [email protected]
Purveen, Shahana PhD (ICDD) Tata Institute of Soc. Sc. [email protected]
Scherrer, Christoph (Prof. Dr.) Faculty University of Kassel [email protected]
Scully, Benjamin (Dr.) Faculty U. of the Witwatersrand [email protected]
Segbenya, Moses PhD (ICDD) Univ. of Cape Coast [email protected]
Wa Goro, Wangui (Dr.) Guest Independent Researcher [email protected]
Walsch, Alan Guest GIZ (Ghana) [email protected]
Wolde, Eyerusalem PhD Univ. of KwaZulu-Natal [email protected]
Ziai, Aram (Prof. Dr.) Faculty University of Kassel [email protected]
