Rubicon

30 maart 2006

Dr Karen Witsenburg received a Rubicon award for her project ‘Fight, negotiate or resign? Ownership of communal water resources in Kenya's borderlands’. She will carry out her project at Moi University (Eldoret, Kenia).

In 2005 Karen Witsenburg published ‘Once Nomads Settle: Assessing the Progress, Motives and Welfare Changes on Mount Marsabit’, together with Wario R. Adano. Their publication constituted an important contribution to a scientific debate with enormous practical implications for the populations under study: nomadic pastoralists in Kenya, Africa. For this publication Adano received a WOTRO 40 years Anniversary Award for Best Publication in the Social Sciences and Humanities in the category Researchers from Developing Countries. The WOTRO 40 Year Anniversary Awards were awarded as part of the celebration of the 40-year anniversary of the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research.

With this Rubicon award Witsenburg can gain experience at a top research institution outside the Netherlands. NWO awarded 32 researchers with a Rubicon award. All together they receive ca. 1 million euro. The maximum amount of a Rubicon grant for a individual researcher is €80,000.