Four new Integrated Programmes awarded

20 June 2011

As result of the Integrated Programmes subsidy of 2010-2011, the WOTRO board awarded four new Integrated Programmes. Each programme consists of three or more (inter)related Ph.D. and/or post-doc projects. The Integrated Programme scheme is aimed at supporting excellent problem-oriented interdisciplinary research to the benefit of development and societal issues in the South.

An Integrated Programme may address developmental and societal issues: in a broad sense that may lead to new insights, theories and/or breakthroughs in current knowledge and understanding or fitting within one or more of four themes of WOTRO’s framework: (A) Poverty and Hunger; (B) Sustainable Environment; and (C) Global Relationships.

The following programmes have been awarded with a grant:

• Sensors, Empowerment, and Accountability in Tanzania (SEMA)
• THE TRANSNATIONALISATION OF LOCAL WATER BATTLES: Water accumulation by agribusinesses in Peru and Ecuador and the politics of corporate social responsibility
• Communities and institutions for flood resilience: enhancing knowledge and capacity to manage flood risk in the Bangladeshi and Dutch Deltas
• Mining governance, conflict transformation and sustainable development in DRC