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MDP
Secretariat
Newsletter
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Greetings!
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Welcome to the March edition of the Master's in Development Practice (MDP) Secretariat Newsletter. As you will notice, we have made changes to our Newsletter. Do let us know your feedback. Enjoy!
Important date to keep in mind:
- September (dates vary): Sixteen universities around the world will open their doors to the first cohort of MDP student-practitioners. Columbia University welcomes its second cohort of MDP student-practitioners.
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The Global Network of MDP Programs
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Cheikh Anta Diop University --Offering Bilingual MDP Program.
The University Cheikh Anta Diop in Senegal will launch its Master's in Development Practice program in the fall 2010 and will be the first bilingual, French-English, program in the global network of MDP programs.
More on the UCAD's MDP program can be read in full here.
Virtual Library of MDP Resources Available at a Click.
To facilitate and strengthen MDP programs around the world, the core MDP curriculum will be supported by a virtual library where participating teachers and students can access case studies, lesson plans, learning materials, practical tools and educational activities. Practitioners and faculty members at MDP universities can contribute their own materials to this resource center to assist in the development of wide-ranging online curriculum tools that ensure the inclusion of global perspectives.
The beginnings of the virtual repository is presently available at Columbia University's Academic Commons, where one can find syllabi for MDP courses such as Integrated Approaches to Sustainable Development, Global Health, Global Food Systems and Human Ecology. In time, this virtual repository will be a searchable database containing case studies, teaching notes, and other resources used in MDP programs worldwide.
Join the Global Network of MDP Programs.
Universities committed to inter-disciplinary, rigorous, and practice-based training in sustainable development are invited to join the global network of MDP programs. Development
Agencies, NGOs and Businesses are also welcome. For more information on joining the global network, please click here.
State of the Planet 2010: A Great Success.
Thank you to all who participated in person or via
webcast this past Thursday, March 25th, in the sixth State of
the Planet Conference. We had 1500 guests in attendance at Columbia University in New York; 2200 unique webcast viewers; and almost 50 Global Classroom sites, with approximately 1200 attendees. The State of the Planet was a great success and a truly global event.
For those who were unable to attend, as well as those who were, videos of all sessions are available
on the State of the Planet website.
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Global MDP Programs
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BRAC Deveolopment Institute(Dhaka, Bangladesh) CATIE (Turrialba, Costa Rica)Columbia University (New York, USA) Emory University (Atlanta, USA)James Cook University (Cairns and Townsville, Australia)TCD and UCD, Dublin (Dublin, Ireland)TERI University (New Delhi, India)Tsinghua University (Beijing, China)University of Botswana (Gaborone, Botswana)University Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) (Dakar, Senegal)University of California, Davis (Davis, USA)University of Denver (Denver, USA)University of Florida (Gainesville, USA)University of Ibadan (Ibadan, Nigeria)University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, USA)University of Peradeniya (Peradeniya, Sri Lanka)University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)
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Global MDP Faculty News
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 Dr. Carla Roconli joined Emory University in February 2010 as the Associate Director of Emory's MDP Program. Dr. Roconli is an environmental anthropologist and has
worked in applied research and international development for over 20 years. To read more, click here.
 Dr. Joseph Assan will be joining Trinity College and University College, Dublin's MDP team as a lecturer in Development Practice. Dr. Assan has extensive field research in international development
and has recently carried out research on the interaction between sustainable
livelihoods, environmental variability/climate change and household well-being
within the context of poverty reduction. To read more, click here.
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In Their Words:
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MDP Involvement in Technology For Development Initiatives
Ushahidi is a web based technology that uses crowd sourcing to map out crisis information gathered from text messages, blog posts, local news sources, Twitter and more. MDP students became involved with Ushahidi on the day of the Chilean earthquake. To learn more about their involvement, click here.
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