Josine Stremmelaar
Who
Drs Josine StremmelaarWhat
Coordinator Knowledge Programme , HivosWhere
The NetherlandsMore about me
I'm the coordinator of the Hivos Knowledge Programme. The platform for knowledge development on issues imperative to the global development sector. How to understand and innovate support for civil society building, how to promote pluralism in times of growing intolerance, how to adapt to rapid changes such as the globalisation of markets? The development sector needs new knowledge, and more specifically, appropriate knowledge to tackle specific knowledge gaps. This programme aims at developing knowledge on issues central to the work of civil society organisations and for the development sector at large. The main themes are: Civil Society Building, Promoting Pluralism, Civil Society in West Asia, Small Producer Agency in the Globalized Market and Digital Natives with a Cause?
Before coming to Hivos, I was the Executive Manager of the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and Advisor to the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS).
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Locating our work in the politcal
Yesterday we have been trying to locate each other’s work in the political. Therewith exploring the political in the broad sense and deepen our understanding of each other’s activities. It displayed the many different perspectives, approaches, forms of engagement and tools the different participants use. For instance the anti-...
Twitter with us!
Read and contribute to our twitter conversation at #digitalnative.
Transitions at the local level - 7 August 2009
What does a transition from emergency to recovery look like for Acholi people? Of course, to leave the camps and returning to villages is a major change for most of the people. Also a change in government structures is taking place. And I am extremely interested to follow that process in the next one and half years, hoping that the transitio...
Strengthening governance? - 1 August 2009
The political divide between Southern and Northern Uganda is often cited. The North has not only felt politically marginalised, but also in socio-economic terms. Norbert Mao, chairman of Gulu district, explained in an interview with The Observer (18 July 2009) how the North was structurally neglected in the allocation of resources. The North...
The post-conflict gap - 28 July 2009
From 2001 to 2002, over 90% of the population of the Acholi sub-region became internally displaced as the result of a government order. It led to a humanitarian crisis that remained hardly unnoticed for some time and from 2003 onwards the region saw an influx of international humanitarian actors. Since 2 years ago, the region is again stable...
The different faces of violence - 24 July 2009
One of my objectives this month is to map out differences between sub-counties in the northern region in terms of how heavily they were affected by LRA atrocities. This turns out to be quite a challenge! I carry around maps of the area. The leader of a national NGO in Kampala is one of the many people I ask to mark LRA presence and hot-spots...
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