March 2007

KIT-Insight. The quaterly digital newsletter of the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam. KIT Insights presents information on current developments in the institute as well as projects and publications.
 

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KIT becomes a WHO centre of expertise
The World Health Organization (WHO) has appointed KIT as a strategic centre of expertise for recruiting, training and retaining healthcare workers in developing countries. KIT will provide advice on issues such as capacity development and other strategic aspects of human resource management in the international healthcare sector.
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Debate on human remains in museological collections
How do anthropological museums deal with human remains in their collections? What ethical and museological issues are at stake? To contribute to the international debate on these and related questions KIT's Tropenmuseum recently presented a study published on the origins and composition on the Institute's physical anthropological collection.
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Innovative ways of drying fish in Northern Mali
Thanks to a mobile fish-drying apparatus, custom-built for this purpose, Malian fisherman will soon be able to sell the fish they catch in the Niger for a much better price on the domestic market. Aside from boosting the fishermen's income, this is also bodes well for consumer health...
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Innovating agricultural research in Eastern Africa
In a new project commissioned by ASARECA, KIT will be working on consolidating and innovating agricultural research in Eastern Africa. Central to the effort is the development of a capacity plan to provide an innovation impetus to agricultural research in 11 countries.
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Coaching for expats living abroad
Thanks to a new online coaching service offered by KIT as a follow-up to its preparatory programmes for expats, people who live and work in another country no longer have to puzzle everything out for themselves once they move there.
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New: information portals for development issues
Topical information and access to relevant and reliable internet sources. This is what KIT is offering with its new series of web portals for policy-makers, researchers and other professionals involved in international cooperation.
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Integrated AIDS-prevention
A broad look at prevention. This is what the latest issue of KIT's Exchange newsletter offers. HIV-prevention programmes often fall short of providing anything more than information. But knowledge and awareness alone are not enough to change behaviour patterns...
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Stigma and Health
A new digital dossier on the KIT website deals with 'health-related stigma' and its harmful consequences such as discrimination and social exclusion. The dossier is the result of the Institute's involvement with ICRAAS, the International Consortium for Research and Action Against health-related Stigma.
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Culture and Hierarchy
KIT Publishers recently published 'Culture and Hierarchy: Japanese-Dutch encounters in the workplace' on intercultural interaction between Japanese and Dutch employees in an international company. It exposes the underlying reasons for cultural differences. > more