About us
THE CONSORTIUM PARTNERS
DSPS -DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES of UNIPV, has a long and consolidated experience in the field of development and cooperation studies, as well as international relations. It has specific research centers in the field of development and counts numerous experts from different disciplinary fields. DSPS lecturers regularly teach in the Masters of the CDN and collaborates with the CDN CSOs.
CISP – INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PEOPLES is a European Non- Governmental Organization, with the headquarter
in Rome (Italy), which acts in the international cooperation field and the fight against social exclusion. Since 1983 CISP carries out development, rehabilitation and humanitarian programmes, as
well as projects of applied research, in about 30 countries in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Working in Kenya since 1997, CISP supports national and local authorities and institutions to provide quality, equitable and accountable services in various sectors, including higher education, food security and nutrition, child protection, arts and culture. Founding member of the CDN, is the leading agency in the development and implementation of the MECOHD programme.
CDN – COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT NETWORK is a network of post graduate education programs in cooperation and development. Members of the CDN are the 5 Universities hosting the programs, and the UNINORTE Barranquilla, (Colombia), the Institute for Advanced Study of Pavia, the Almo Collegio Borromeo of Pavia (Private University College) and 3 Italian NGOs: CISP, VIS and COOPI. Founded in 1997, it includes 5 masters programs in different continents:
Master in Cooperation and Development (CD), University of Pavia, Italy;
Escuela Latino Americana in Cooperación y Desarollo (ELACID), Universidad de San Buenaventura, Colombia;
Master in Cooperation and Development (MICAD), Bethlehem University, Palestine;
Master in Cooperation and Development (MICD), Mid-Western University, Nepal;
Master of Economics, Cooperation and Human Development (MECOHD), Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya.
KU – KENYATTA UNIVERSITY’S SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
is a public university with technical expertise in research, monitoring and evaluating public and private actions, and provides high quality academic programmes that attract individuals who wish to be globally competitive. Since 2013, is part of the CDN, being the institution hosting and running the MECOHD programme in the School of Economics.
TUC – TANGAZA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE is a Constituency College of the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. It is a non-for-profit organization, dedicated to Higher Education, which since 1986 offers various academic programs, from certificate to PhD level; it runs policy-oriented research and is committed in many social programs. The TUC Institute of Social Transformation is specialized in sustainable human development, social transformation, social entrepreneurship and governance.
OTHER PARTNERS
In Kenya the project has involved other important partners:
– The INGO Amici del Mondo ( World Friends), involved in particular in the health research activity.
– The National Treasury and Planning.
– The Ministry of Devolution and ASALS.