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  • From Theory to Practice: Highlights from the Feminist Edge Programme

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    Laura Cala Vergel, PMEL analyst with Share-Net Columbia, shares her experiences attending this year’s programme. The Feminist Edge programme offers a holistic training between pedagogical concepts and practices, providing participants with key tools to strengthen their work as gender trainers. The course has been a transformative experience that has allowed me to deepen my knowledge […]

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  • Voices from Gaza: the reality of a health system in crisis.

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    In this video, healthcare providers share their first-hand experience of working in Gaza’s hospitals today. From shortages of medicine and electricity to lack of access to basic necessities like water and soap – the challenges to restoring healthcare in Gaza are immense. At the same time, the voices featuring in the video carry hope and […]

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  • Guest Post: Save the Children on Child Protection and Mental Health and Psycho-Social Support in Gaza

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    In 2024 our partners shared numerous shocking stories during their interventions with children and their families in Gaza, detailing their mental health conditions.  One of the cases is about the sole survivor of his family, a 14-year-old boy who lost his entire family while he was fetching water from their neighbors. He witnessed rocket fall on […]

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  • Festive Graduation marks 60th anniversary of international and public health education at KIT Institute

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    On Friday, 30st August 2024, 70  participants from 26 countries received Master’s degrees in in Public Health or  International Health, in a festive graduation ceremony held at KIT Institute in Amsterdam. The ceremony marked the 60th anniversary of KIT Institute’s Master of Public Health and the 20th anniversary of the Master of International Health programme. […]

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  • Coming Together to Exchange Knowledge on Land

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    From 9 to 14 June, KIT Institute, as a Knowledge Management partner for the Land-at-Scale (LAS) programme, participated in the annual LAS Exchange event which this year took place in Uganda. Equitable and sustainable land governance is essential to achieving sustainable development and has a key role to play in strategies for sustainable livelihoods, food […]

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  • Dispatch from Abidjan

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    by Chantale Al-Lakis Chantale Al-Lakis, Epidemiologist at KIT Institute, sent us this dispatch from Abidjan. She was recently in the port city with other KIT advisors (below) to deliver a workshop on the World Bank and Global Financing Facility-funded project on Service Delivery Redesign for Maternal and Neonatal Health in Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, DRC, Niger, […]

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  • New Health Courses Brochure 2025

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    It is with great pleasure that we share KIT Institute’s new 2025 course brochure with you We are proud to introduce our new Master of Public Health and Health Equity programmes, designed to equip professionals with the tools needed to tackle complex health challenges and disparities. Additionally, we offer a variety of shorter courses covering […]

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  • Reimagining the possible – feminist principles in practice

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    Since 2017, together with UN Women Training Centre, KIT Institute has 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 August 6th, Feminist Edge is hosting a Special Event to launch the Alumni Network. We […]

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  • KIT Coffee Stories: Making a living from coffee – talking with farmers in Colombia

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    Take a coffee break with Stefan Petrutiu, advisor and coffee connoisseur at KIT, as he is joined by farmers he met in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. In this video, we talk to the coffee farmers and explore the context behind the numbers in our studies on household and living incomes. What do […]

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  • Dispatch from Rwanda

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    By Mayada El-Zoghbi KIT Institute’s Managing Director, Mayada El-Zoghbi, recently visited Rwanda, where she met our partner AKADEMIYA2063 2063. She sent us this dispatch from Kigali. In it she talks about the trends she observed and the people she met during her brief visit to the country also known as the ‘Land of a Thousand Hills’. […]

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  • A high price to pay for a living income?

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    Why direct transfers are a better strategy for value redistribution in the cocoa sector. by Rob Kuijpers, Ruerd Ruben, and Rik Habraken. Increasing cocoa prices above market equilibrium is an expensive way to achieve living incomes for farm households. Besides excessive monetary costs, higher prices may have unintended adverse effects, such as on child labour […]

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  • Setting the stage: facilitating evidence-informed advocacy to end child marriage in Zambia

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    “At KIT we see participatory research that directly feeds into evidence-informed lobby and advocacy as a win-win. It allows researchers and advocates to jointly broaden our perspectives and helps lobby and advocacy to focus on actions with the biggest potential for change.” (Pam Baatsen, Senior SRHR advisor at KIT) In our role as knowledge partner […]

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