Alumni Voice – Land Rights Advocacy in COVID-19 Response (Nepal)
Written by Jagat BasnetDiploma in Development Leadership, 2001 Practice, Adaptations, Innovations The Community Self-Reliance Centre (CSRC) has been facilitating land and agrarian issues in Nepal and working with landless and smallholder peasants since 1994. To...
Alumni Voice – Social Enterprise Shifts to PPE Production amidst Lockdown (India)
Written by JP Dobson In the current uncertainty, Corrina Vali uses the skills developed during her time at Coady International Institute to provide protective masks to frontline workers in her hometown of Godhra, India. It was only one year ago she was wrapping up her...
Alumni Voice – Coronavirus Pandemic and Employment: Protecting Women’s Right to Work (Ghana)
Since hitting the world at the end of last year, the novel coronavirus has claimed thousands of lives, it is wrecking economies while leaving many workers uncertain about their current and future employment. With social distancing and isolation recommended by the...
Alumni Voice – Mapping the Mosaic of Community Assets During and After COVID-19 (South Africa)
Looking through the lens of possibilities, opportunities, and co-creation By Bernie Dolley and Sarah Hugow Humans are hard-wired to focus on threats and problems. It’s an evolutionary survival mechanism that has served us well for thousands of years. When faced with a...