Development Cooperation: Africa and the SDGs
Rheinsprung 21
4051 Basel
In this course, participants will develop a thorough understanding of global development cooperation (foreign aid), its main features, and the effects it has on African societies. The course will critically engage with different approaches to development and discuss discourses and structural conditions that frame development cooperation. A particular focus is on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN’s Agenda 2030, currently the most important international development framework.
Specific projects and organisations, such as Helvetas, will serve as cases to take a close look at how development cooperation works with regards to three dimensions: gender, religion and sustainability. Participants will differentiate between various forms of development cooperation and discuss goals, methods and potential as well as specific challenges and pitfalls.
Depending on demand, the course is taught in English or German.
More information: www.zasb.unibas.ch/en/aa5
- Discourses and approaches to development
- Actors in development co-operation
- The role of the SDGs for the global development framework
- Foreign aid and financial flows
- Systemic approach and sustainability
- Gender aspects and gender specific approaches
- Religion and development
- Hafid Derbal, Programme coordinator South Africa and Zimbabwe, terre des hommes schweiz
- Georg Felber, Senior Advisor Value Chain & Market Development, Helvetas
- Yakubu Joseph, Coordinator Nigeria, Mission 21
- Lucy Koechlin, Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel
- Elísio Macamo, Professor of African Studies at the Institute of Sociology, University of Basel
CHF 690 incl. course documentation; travel expenses, accommodation and meals are not included.
Additional fee for assessment (required for ECTS credits): CHF 60