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  • KIT Institute joins new consortium to finance farmer health in Uganda’s coffee sector

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    KIT Institute is a partner in the newly launched Uganda Coffee Farmer Health Consortium, spearheaded by Elucid. The consortium brings together coffee traders, roasters, and public and philanthropic partners to improve access to healthcare for coffee-farming communities in Uganda. KIT Institute will convene the consortium’s Community of Practice. For many coffee-farming households, illness has direct economic […]

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  • KIT welcomes its 63rd Master’s cohort to Amsterdam

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    KIT has welcomed its 63rd Master’s cohort to Amsterdam, bringing together 36 participants from 14 nationalities to begin a new chapter in their professional and academic journeys in public health.

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  • Celebrating the 2026 Graduates in Public Health and Health Equity

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    On Friday, 28 August 2026, KIT Institute celebrated the graduation of 33 health professionals from 21 countries from the Master in Public Health and Health Equity (MPH-HE) and Master in International Health (MIH). The festive ceremony, held at KIT Live Theatre in Amsterdam, brought together graduates, family and friends, KIT staff, teachers, partners and donors […]

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  • Special Event: Bringing a Feminist Edge to Gender and Agriculture

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    Since 2017, KIT Institute and the UN Women Training Centre have run Feminist Edge, a professional development programme for gender trainers. Feminist Edge re-captures and re-imagines gender training as a feminist project, establishing a new approach to training for gender equality. On Tuesday 4 August 2026, Feminist Edge will host a Special Event: Bringing a […]

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  • Discover KIT Institute’s 2027 Health Courses Brochure

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    Learning for Health Equity in a Changing World We are pleased to share KIT Institute’s 2027 Health Courses Brochure, featuring our Master in Public Health and Health Equity and a wide range of short courses for health professionals from around the world. Health systems today are facing rapid change. From climate pressures and conflict to […]

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  • Entrepreneurial Leadership: The Driving Force Behind Viable Farmer Organisations

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    Across Africa, member-based farmer organisations (FOs) are widely seen as key drivers of rural development. On the one hand, they represent their members—providing platforms for collective voice, advocacy, and rural representation. On the other, they are expected to operate as viable commercial entities: organising input supply, delivering services, and engaging in collective marketing and storage […]

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  • Who Will End TB? — A symposium on science, stigma, and community leadership

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    Last Friday, we had the privilege of bringing people together at KIT Institute for a conversation on a topic that felt both urgent and deeply human. “Who Will End TB?” was a community-led symposium on TB, stigma, and society, organised by artist and TB advocate Paulina Siniatkina and Shaun Palmer from IAVI — just days […]

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  • World TB Day 2026 | Sustaining TB care during climate-related disasters

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    This World TB Day, we’re reminded that ending TB is possible — even as climate-related disasters make it increasingly difficult. Last year, our global health teams interviewed 10 TB programme implementers from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Zambia, and Zimbabwe about how climate-related disasters affect TB services — and how geospatial tools can […]

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  • Learning from the Ground: Closing the Gap Between Community-Centred Land Governance and Adaptive Programming

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    Land governance interventions are increasingly community-centred, recognising that secure land rights depend not only on technical solutions but also on legitimacy, trust, and local ownership. Yet the knowledge generated during implementation often remains scattered or disconnected from policy and decision-making spaces. Participatory knowledge management helps close this gap. By deliberately capturing and reflecting on learning […]

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  • Seeds of Change: How Aid, Development and Peace are Linked in South Sudan

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    South Sudan is a country defined by resilience amid fragility. Farmers face a landscape of repeated floods, mass displacement of people because of recurrent conflicts, and persistent food insecurity. For over 15 years, and at a cost of over $1 billion humanitarian agencies have distributed imported seeds throughout the country as a way to simultaneously […]

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  • Coffee Stories #7: Taking a Closer Look at Gender

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    Take a coffee break with KIT Institute and learn more about gender and how to start recognising gender issues or inequality by digging a little deeper. Gender inequality exists everywhere (yes, also in Western countries), but it shows up differently to everyone. KIT Institute’s Gender Advisor Ana Victoria Portocarrero Lacayo invites us to develop a […]

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  • Feminist Edge Welcomes Seventh International Cohort of Gender Trainers

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    On February 9th, Feminist Edge – a professional development programme for gender trainers run by KIT and UN Women Training Center – launched this year’s first module. We are delighted to welcome this seventh cohort of participants into our global community of gender trainers – now comprising over 175 alumni. Feminist Edge offers professional development […]

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