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Senior Scholars, Sabbatical, and
Post-Doctoral Fellowship Research Grant Winners Selected
The selection of winners of the Senior Scholars, the Sabbatical and the Post-Doctoral Fellowship Grant was completed on 23 October 2006. The jury members of the representative grants met in Addis Ababa on the same date and finalised their selection. Dr. Alfred G. Nhema, Executive Secretary of OSSREA, opened the event and made a brief speech in which he emphasised the need to ensure transparency in the selection process. The following applicants were short-listed as winners of the grants in the two programmes.
Winners of the 2006 Senior Scholars Research Grant
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No. |
Name |
Country |
Gender |
Title of Research |
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1. |
Dr. Tegegne Gebre-Egziabher |
Ethiopia |
Male |
Livelihood and Urban Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia: Perspectives from Small and Big Urban Centers |
|
2. |
Dr. Zelealem Leyew |
Ethiopia |
Male |
Wild Plant Nomenclature and their Utility among the Awi, Gumuz and Shinasha Ethnolinguistic Communities: A Comparative Linguistic and Ethnobotanical Study |
|
3. |
Dr. Philomena Wairimu Muiruri |
Kenya |
Female |
Towards New Policy Measures to Govern Women Street Vendors from a Human Rights Based Approach in the City of Nairobi, Kenya |
|
4. |
Dr. Ibrahim Oanda Ogachi |
Kenya |
Male |
Exploring Strategies to Integrating Indigenous Knowledge Systems into Formal School Curriculum as a Basis for Education and Development Policy for Kenya’s Pastoralist Communities |
|
5. |
Prof. Mugyabuso M. Mulokozi and Prof. Fikeni E. M. K. Senkoro |
Tanzania |
Male
Male
|
Indigenous Knowledge, Religion, Conflict Management and Regional Integration: The Case of the Maji Maji and Nuabingi Resistance Movements in Tanzania and Uganda (1900-1940) |
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6. |
Dr. France Maphosa |
Zimbabwe |
Male |
Multiple Involvement or Multiple Exclusion? A Study of Transnational Experiences of Communities on the Zimbabwe-South Africa and Zimbabwe-Botswana Borderlands |
Winners of the 2006 Post-Doctoral Fellowship Grant
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No. |
Name |
Country |
Gender |
Title of Research |
|
1. |
Jane Kerubo Onsongo |
Kenya |
Female |
Promoting Gender Equity in Higher Education: An Examination of Sustainable Interventions in Selected Universities in Kenya |
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2. |
Ruth Mutei James |
Kenya |
Female |
Social, Economic and Cultural Determinants of Women's Reproductive Health in Kitui and Mwingi Districts, Kenya |
|
3. |
Esther William Dungumaro |
Tanzania |
Female |
Poverty and Female Migration, the Case of Iringa region, Tanzania |
|
4. |
Wise Mainga |
Zambia |
Male |
Differences in 'Skill-mix' Accumulation a Determinant of Competiveness Under Globalization: A Firm-Level Analysis of South African Manufacturing Firms in the Western Cape & KwaZulu-Natal Provinces |
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5. |
Munhuweyi Peresuh |
Zimbabwe |
|
Profile of Effective Teaching of University Lecturers in Public and Private Universities in Zimbabwe |
The Sabbatical Research Grant Competition
The jury members for the 2006 Sabbatical Research Grant Competition met on 23rd October 2006 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to screen the best research proposals.
The jury members were:
Prof. Linda E. R. De Vries, Vice President, OSSREA Executive Committee
Assoc. Prof. Merera Gudina, Addis Ababa University
Assoc. Prof. Ramses Amer, Umea University
The jury selected the following six winners:
1. Dr. Wanna Leka
Topic: The Transition of youth from school to work: A comparative study on the impact of technical and vocational education and training on the employability of boys and girls (the case of Ethiopia)
2. Dr. Tekalign Wolde-Mariam
Topic: The Ethiopian empire and its new subjects: Power, property and popular protest (1941-1974)
3. Dr. Kennedy Nyabuti Ondimu
Topic: Extent of child exclusion among internally displaced populations in Kenya: A case of Rift Valley and Nyanza provinces
4. Dr. Magdalena K. Ngaiza
Topic: The role of participatory action research agencies in community in poverty alleviation in Tanzania 2003-2006
5. Prof. John C. Munene
Topic: Managing the management of administrative change: The competences of the “new” public service chief executives in Uganda
6. Dr. Naomi Netsayi Wekwete
Topic: Adolescent pregnancy challenges in the era of HIV and AIDS: Lessons learnt through lived experiences in Zimbabwe’s selected rural areas
The winners’ workshop is scheduled to take place from 30th November – 1st December 2006 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The purpose of the workshop is to discuss the proposed studies and to offer the grantees an opportunity to elaborate on their revised proposals.
Jury members of OSSREA Senior Scholars, Sabbatical and Post-Doctoral Fellowship grant programmes