Main: Twenty-three fourth-year INDEV students have just completed their mandatory eight-month field placement as World University Service of Canada volunteers with local development and environmental organizations in Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi, Peru and Vietnam.
Come and hear what students learned about global challenges such as:
MacKirdy Hall, St. Paul’s University College, 8:30AM – 7:00PM
For details click here. Register early for this event as space is limited!
UW grad Robert Rankin will share his experience from a recent CIDA internship in the Grenadines. He is currently a wildlife analyst at Bird Studies Canada. He has been involved with a number of youth-oriented environmental and development projects across the globe, including community capacity-building in the Grenadines with the Coady International Institute, Mexican migrant worker advocacy through Frontier College, HIV/AIDS education in India through Canada World Youth, and wildlife research in various Arctic countries.
MacKirdy Hall, St. Paul’s University College, 2- 3:30PM
INDEV Field Placement Coordinator Grainne Ryder travels to Botswana, Malawi, Ghana and Burkina Faso to visit local organizations preparing to host INDEV students in September 2011.
Ever shy away from a situation involving conflict? Unsure how best to handle the situation? Worried that the situation will escalate and get out of control? Conflict doesn't always have to be destructive. Conflicts can be opportunities to generate growth and strengthen relationships when approached in the right way.
In this workshop you will:
St. Paul’s University College Chapel, 2 – 4:30 PM
To register email ohdslp@uwaterloo.ca with the subject line "INDEV workshop registration." Include your student ID, which session you want to enroll in, and OHD will provide further instructions.
Professor Ian Rowlands, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, spent part of his 2010 sabbatical as a 'Senior Research Fellow' with the Department for International Development (DFID) in the UK. Within DFID's 'Research and Evidence Division', he worked on the UK's development assistance policies in the areas of climate change and energy. In this talk, he will review the UK's aid policy and offer some insights and perspectives on the workings of government 'from the inside'.
MacKirdy Hall, St. Paul’s University College, 2 – 3:30 PM
INDEV field placement coordinator will run an information session for INDEV students selected for 2011 placements in African countries, or interested in doing their field placements in Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ghana or Malawi.
MacKirdy Hall, St. Paul’s University College, 4 – 5 PM.
What qualities make the best leader? Have you ever wanted to be the type of leader others admire? Learn how to develop your credibility and your 'authentic' leadership potential.
In this workshop, you'll explore:
To Register email ohdslp@uwaterloo.ca with the subject line "INDEV workshop registration." Include your student ID, which session you want to enroll in, and OHD will provide further instructions.
St. Paul’s University College Chapel, 2 – 4:30 PM
International Development is hosting the 2011 Agha Khan Foundation University Seminar “Development in Post Conflict Societies” in partnership with Peace and Conflict Studies.
Sujeet Sarkar, Senior Regional Advisor, Governance and Civil Society, Agha Khan Foundation, will lead the seminar in MacKirdy Hall, St. Paul's University College, Tuesday March 22nd from 10 to 11:30 AM.
Mr. Sujeet Sarkar is currently the Senior Regional Advisor on Governance and Civil Society at the Aga Khan Foundation, supporting programs across Afghanistan, Mozambique, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Sujeet has over 14 year experience in promoting and strengthening civil society and governance in Asian and East African countries.
MacKirdy Hall, St. Paul's University College, 10 - 11:30 AM
November 10, 2010 - Round Table on Food Security and Sustainability
International Development and Faculty of Environment hosts Jennifer Clapp, Bruce Frayne, Joseph Hulse, and Steffanie Scott for a Round Table discussion on Food Security and Sustainability. Moderated by Larry Swatuk, INDEV Program Director.
Beijing-based freelance journalist, environmentalist, and investigative historian with over 20 books published internationally provides a public talk to the students in International Development. Learn more about Dai Qing
Ex-Engineers without borders volunteer in Ghana speaks to International Development students about their role in community participation.
Starting this fall the office of Organizational & Human Development (OHD) has agreed to offer a series of Student Leadership Program workshops exclusively for third year INDEV students. The workshops are intended to explore and enhance student leadershop capabilities and help students develop awareness and skills in preperation for their 4th year placement. Click here to learn more.
June 29, 2010 - Sister Placida Mosha Visits Waterloo
Sister Placida Mosha, director of Imani Vocational Training Center and star of the Operation Imani documentary will be visiting the University of Waterloo on June 29th at St. Paul's University College in McKirdy Hall at 7:15pm.
Sister Placida will share with you her vision for future developments at Imani, and for rural Africa l. In addition there will be light refreshments, a meet and greet with Sister Placida, door prizes, African items for sale, and best of all both events are free. Make sure to spread the word to those you think might be interested. For more information visit Operation Imani online or email.
June 11, 2010 - Sport and Development
The 2010 Fifa World Cup in South Africa shows us once again, how powerful sports can be to strengthen communities and build bridges across entire continents. By promoting fitness, fair play, team work and the pursuit of excellence, “Sports and Development" is reorienting competitive sports into a tool for development and peace. The sportanddev.org Platform is an online resource dedicated entirely to the field of sport and development.
Launched in November 2003 after the first international conference on Sport and Development in Magglingen, Switzerland, the site has mobilized support from organizations worldwide, linking sports with everything from youth education, to disaster response, peace-building and gender equity to name a few.
INDEV Program Director Larry Swatuk, visited India in February to participate in the launch of a new global Master’s in Development Practice program. With funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the University of Waterloo is one of 17 universities worldwide collaborating on a unique graduate-level program designed to provide rigorous and cross-disciplinary training to future leaders in sustainable development.
Prof Swatuk met with other faculty members of the global MDP network at the New Delhi-based TERI University, which is an offshoot of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), a renowned research and teaching institute. Founded by Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chang, TERI University is the first of its kind in India dedicated to the study of environment, energy, and natural sciences for sustainable development.
The global MDP network was launched at the 10th Annual Sustainable Development Summit in New Delhi, which was attended by hundreds of government and business leaders, including the Prime Ministers of India, the Kenyan Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai, and CEOs from every corner of the globe. The theme of this year’s summit, was “Beyond Copenhagen: New Pathways to Sustainable Development.”
While in India, Prof Swatuk also visited a leading microfinance organization, known as BASIX which offers microfinance and livelihood improvement services to rural villagers and urban slum dwellers in 16 states.
Paul Polak, founder of the Colorado-based non-profit International Development Enterprises (IDE) which is dedicated to developing practical solutions that harness the power of markets and attack poverty at its 
roots. Polak’s newest project is D-Rev, a non-profit that seeks “to create a design revolution by enlisting the best designers in the world to develop products and ideas that will benefit the 90% of the people on earth who are poor, in order to help them earn their way out of poverty.”
Author of “Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail,” Paul delivered his lecture at St. Paul’s MacKirdy Hall on November 5th, just before the public launch of UW’s new School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development.
Full of passion for his work, Paul said one of the most important things the INDEV program can do is give young idealists “the tools and the courage to try to change the world.”
For the past 25 years, Paul has worked with thousands of farmers in countries around the world – including Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Nepal, and Zambia – to help design and produce low-cost income-generating products that have already moved 17 million people out of poverty.
Anecdotal, spirited and at times humorous, Paul’s mantra is affordability, expandability and marketability when thinking about how to manage water, agriculture, markets and design for poverty eradication around the world.
International Development director Dr. Larry Swatuk is visiting Bonn, Germany on March 23 to discuss his book, "Transboundary Water Governance in Southern Africa - Examining Underexplored Dimensions." The talk takes place in context with the World Water Week "Bridging Divides for Water". Larry Swatuk and Lars Wirkus are editors and authors of a collection of Southern African case studies which has been published in the book series "Sustainable Peace and Global Security Governance", edited by BICC and the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF).
A new collection of Southern African case studies co-edited by professor Larry Swatuk will help students learn about transboundary water governance (TBWG), particularly as it applies to areas of the Global South. The book was released in February 2009.
A group of students from the Faculty of Environment and St. Paul’s University College were in Usulután, El Salvador to build two homes with Habitat for Humanity during Reading Week in February 2009. These students came from an array of programs within the Faculty of Environment, along with a student from the Faculty of Engineering.
Dr. Larry Swatuk, director of the International Development program, was a guest speaker on a panel concerned with 'pro-poor trade policy in agricultural commodities' at the national Engineers without Borders conference in January 2009.
