Upcoming Events

CID Lunchtime talks

CID is pleased to announce the re-introduction of the Wellington CID lunchtime talks.  We plan to hold these each month in our new premises on Boulcott Street, Wellington.  If you have ideas on an interesting speaker please contact madeleine@cid.org.nz.
We hope to see you there.  Grateful if you can RSVP so we can get an idea on numbers.
 
Date: 29 February, 12-1pm,
Venue: Level 13, Davis Langdon House,49 Boulcott Street, Wellington

Our first speaker for 2012 will be Gerard Prinsen (Development Studies programmes at Massey and Victoria Universities )

Please RSVP to madeleine@cid.org.nz

New politics around aid. Climate change, or just seasonal?

Gerard Prinsen has been working with Dutch aid agencies for twenty years. During a recent holiday to Europe, he caught up with colleagues in the aid industry and compared notes on the changes afoot and in the air in New Zealand and the Netherlands. The political temperature around development aid has definitely changed. But is it permanent, or seasonal? Gerard will share a few ideas on what may be global patterns and provide insights in responses by some Dutch aid organisations, non-profit as well as commercial.Gerard Prinsen teaches in the Development Studies programmes at Massey and Victoria Universities. He is also engaged in practitioner-led research by a consortium of Dutch NGOs in aid effectiveness in six post-conflict states in Africa as well as a Marsden funded research into the impact of aid on sovereignty in the Pacific. Click for further details.

Connecting Communities

Christchurch
Date: Wednesday 29 February, 9am-5pm
Venue: Chateau on the Park, Riccarton, Christchurch

Wellington
Date: Monday 5 March, 9am-5pm
Venue: Brentwood Hotel, Kilbernie, Wellington

This free one day event, hosted by Microsoft in association with Social Development Partners, brings together a range of leading presenters from community organisations and Microsoft. It will showcase the important role that technology plays for today’s New Zealand nonprofits, charities and community organisations.

Numbers are limited with a maximum of two per organisation registering.

Follow these links to see the programme, find out more about the speakers and to register; CCWellington CCChristchurch

Head of Caritas Jerusalem to visit to New Zealand

Wellington:
Sunday 26 February: 4pm: Sacred Heart Cathedral, Hill St, Wellington. ‘Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem’ – liturgy including address by Claudette Habesch

Christchurch: 
1-2 March: (event to be confirmed).

Palmerston North:
Sunday 4 March: 3pm: Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, 197 Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North. ‘Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem’ – liturgy including address by Claudette Habesch.

Whanganui:
Monday 5 March: Pilgrimage to Hiruharama/Jerusalem. Contact Caritas 0800 22 10 22 or visit our website www.caritas.org.nz for more details.

Auckland:
Thursday 8 March: 5.30-7pm: St Columba’s Centre, 40 Vermont St, Ponsonby: Public meeting on Caritas Jerusalem’s work in Palestine.

Sunday 11 March: 5.45pm: St Patrick’s Cathedral, Wyndham St, Auckland. ‘Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem’ – liturgy including address by Claudette Habesch.

Safer motherhood for all: innovative social protection mechanisms and their contribution to MDG5 and beyond

Date: 9 March 2012 11:30-13:00 (GMT+00)
Venue: Public event, Overseas Development Institute and screened live online

To mark International Women’s Day, ODI is bringing together a panel of scholars and practitioners to explore the social protection innovations, in particular conditional cash transfer programmes (CCTs), being employed to tackle maternal ill-health. This event will consider how to take such interventions to scale.

Speakers:
Oona Campbell - Professor of Epidemiology and Reproductive Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Tania Boler - Associate Director,  Evidence and Innovation, Marie Stopes
Nicola Jones - Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute
Fiona Samuels - Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute

DevNet Conference 2012 Call for Papers

We invite high-quality submissions for sessions and individual papers with a particular focus on the conference theme of integrating research, policy and practice. In addition to scholars in development studies, anthropology, geography, history, global health, international studies, political studies and other related disciplines, we also welcome submissions from practitioners and policy makers who can speak to the effective use of research and its findings in increasing the impact of development projects. For more details about submitting papers go here.

Auckland: DevNet Conference 2012

Date: 3-5 December 2012

Venue: University of Auckland

The next DevNet conference, which will take place as the 2012 International Development Conference (IDC 2012) at the University of Auckland from December 3 to 5, 2012.

IDC 2012 will provide an international forum for development scholars, researchers, policy makers and practitioners to explore the linkages between the three areas that constitute international development work – the integration of research, policy and practice in development. It is the eighth in a series of DevNet (International Development Studies Network of Aotearoa New Zealand) conferences.