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The Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law-HiiL GERES Rome | wonen werken ondernemen voor nederlanders en vlamingen Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance, and Development - Faculty of Law Academic Cooperation with Benghazi University in socio-legal studies The Van Vollenhoven institute (VVI) of Leiden University started working together with the University of Benghazi, Libya, in a unique long-term joint project. The project exists of joint research, training, and policy advice.

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Web alliance for Regreening in Africa - Burkina Faso - Centre for International Cooperation, VU University Amsterdam Project title: Web alliance for Regreening in Africa (W4RA) Countries: Burkina Faso, Mali, Ghana, Morocco, South Africa, Uganda Partners: CIS-VU, Network Institute, World Wide Web Foundation;African Re-greening Initiative Period: January 2010 - December 2012 Donor: Various sources, including private donors Contact: Anna Bon or Wendelien Tuyp How can the World Wide Web contribute to social development, to a better society, to humanity connected ? The VU Network Institute and the VU Centre for International Cooperation embarked on a mission to link farming in Africa with information and communication technologies. Backgrounds In the 1980s several periods of drought had severely deteriorated living conditions in many of the rural communities in the Sahel. The information revolution Apart from re-greening, another great development is taking place in Africa since the last decade: it is the overwhelming spread of mobile telephony. W4RA website © Copyright VU University Amsterdam

WOTRO Science for Global Development WOTRO Science for Global Development programmes, funds and monitors innovative research on global issues, with a focus on sustainable development and poverty reduction. WOTRO's research projects are realised by interdisciplinary teams of researchers from the North and South and in close collaboration with non-academic stakeholders. These partnerships yield solutions for development challenges and strengthen the bridge between research, policy and practice. WOTRO implements the NWO strategy 2011-2014 ‘Growing through knowledge’. In addition, WOTRO engages with the framework of the knowledge policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Top sector policy of the Dutch government. Based on these commitments, WOTRO has developed a strategy plan that includes the following overall objectives: WOTRO realises these objectives by developing research programmes and activities together with national and international stakeholders from inside and outside the scientific community.

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