Good practice – Food security in Sierra Leone: EFA and the Fosed project

Posted by Wilma Massucco on January 20, 2011 under Focus | Be the First to Comment

As a good example of the way how to concretely and succesfully promote Development through a Participatory approach, the Eugad team in Sierra Leone selected the action run, in over 15 years, by EFA (Environmental Foundation for Africa), an Organization which aims to protect and restore the environment in West Africa and take advantage from the use of the local natural resources through environmental awareness raising and capacity building activities.

In February 2010 EFA started a new Cooperation partnership, named FOSED, focused on conservation agriculture and natural resource management. Its aim is to increase the agricultural productivity, develop activities in order to handle the marketing and processing of agricultural products and increase the value chain development of the agricultural products, supporting the institution building and decentralization process at district and community level as well.

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by Wilma Massucco

Clotilde Pontecorvo and the Institutional Educational system, drop outs and the priorities of Education (Univ. La Sapienza, Rome)

Posted by Wilma Massucco on January 15, 2011 under Interviews, Video | Be the First to Comment

Clotilde Pontecorvo is Professor at the University La Sapienza , Rome (Italy), and Researcher and Observer of the Chance project, an educational project allocated in the degraded areas of Naples (Italy) and finalized to the rehabilitation and reintegration of young drop outs into civil society.

Here you can read her interview: it has been taken during the Round Table on Chance, arranged in Naples, in July 2010, where researchers and educators have been met for three days in order to analyze good and bad practices related to the Chance Project, and it’s  specifically focused on the replicability of the Chance educational model in the Institutional educational system, on the relationship between educators and drop outs, and on the priorities of Education.

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