Dr Michelle Dunn explains the important role universities can play in developing and implementing effective aid programs in the Indo-Pacific region, while empowering communities and governments at all levels.
Mongolia captures the imagination as the home of the legendary Chinggis Khan; a land of rolling steppes and roaming nomads. However, life in Mongolia can be challenging, particularly for the country’s 160,000 herder households that depend on rangeland-based livestock husbandry for their income in a climate that is both extreme and unforgiving.
The Dryland Farming Africa Fellowship supported over fifty awardees from throughout Africa to improve the sustainability of their rainfed farming systems, primarily through appropriate soil and crop residue management.
Muma Bwalya Munansangu, an Agribusiness short course participant in 2017, is a development specialist working for the Citizens Economic Empowerment Commission, a government agency aimed at providing broad-based empowerment to citizens.
Rosemary Akinyi Wanasunia, an Agribusiness short course participant in 2017, is a County Program Coordinator at the Agricultural Sector Development Support Program in Kenya.
The Australia Awards Agribusiness Short Course, designed by The University of Queensland’s (UQ) International Development unit was specifically for participants from 15 African countries, provided learning experiences related to agribusiness to enhance participants’ ability to engage with and influence challenges regarding sustainable economic development in their home country, profession, workplace and community.
Based in Obuasi in the heart of Ghana’s gold region, Richard Ellimah is an advocate and leader fighting for the rights and needs of communities impacted by mining operations in Ghana.
The University of Queensland’s (UQ) International Development has designed a customised leadership and management training program for fisheries leaders in the Pacific, together with Pacific Community (SPC) and two other partner organisations: Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) and the Centre for Adaptive Leadership (CLA).
The University of Queensland’s International Development and Sustainable Minerals Institute delivered a minerals policy and economics training course for emerging leaders in Papua New Guinea (PNG), together with The University of Western Australia, Curtin University, and HopgoodGanim Lawyers.
The University of Queensland (UQ) is delivering a tailored competition law training program for officials from Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states in collaboration with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
