For many years, IHS has organised regional refresher courses addressed to its alumni thanks to the financial support provided by NUFFIC. The duration of these courses are usually 2 weeks and is organised annually in close cooperation with a local organisation that also benefits from the wealth of experience brought by IHS staff and IHS alumni.

The courses refresh previous issues and fine tune participants’ experience and knowledge with current international policy practices and new issues that have emerged since their participation in IHS courses. The courses are very interactive. Participants have the chance to present their experiences and often this generates a rapid assessment of what is going on regionally. It is an excellent opportunity for networking and for assessing the impact of their previous training at IHS.

In recent years courses have been offered in Ecuador, Zambia, Indonesia, India, Zimbabwe, Jordan, Egypt, China, Cuba, Peru, Ghana, Vietnam, Costa Rica If you belong to an Alumni association or if your organisation would like to host such a course, contact IHS.

The refresher courses is one of the sub-programmes of the Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP) and participants have to be NFP alumni to apply for a fellowship. Find out whether you are elegible to join a refresher course in your region in the list of eligibility criteria

Refresher Courses 2010

In 2010 IHS will be able organise 5 refresher coureses for IHS Alumni thanks to the financial support of Nuffic. The invitation for the refresher course in Thailand has been send out already. IHS alumni from the elegible countries for the other courses can expect to receive an invitation soon. In the invitation you can find more information on the requirements for writing your motivation letter. 

• Sustainable Housing in Times of Climate Change -A Gender Perspective-
  Bangkok, Thailand for Thailand and South-east Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia)
  1 - 12 November 2010
• Alternatives for Forced Evictions in Sub-Saharan Africa
  Nairobi Kenya, for Sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Malawi, Zambia)
  18-29 October 2010
  Partners: Netherlands Alumni Associations of Kenya (NAAK) and Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), Kenya
  
• Livable and Sustainable Inner-Cities in Southern African Countries
  Johannesburg, South Africa for Southern Africa (Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia , Zimbabwe)
  16-27 August 2010
  Partner: School of Architecture and Planning, University of Witwatersrand (WITS)
  
• Making Settlements work for the Poor -Were Land Reforms enough in West-Africa?-
  Kumasi, Ghana, for Ghana, West Africa (Ghana, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Cape Verde and Burkina Faso)
  25 October- 5 November 2010
  
• Pro-poor PPPs for Public Service Delivery in South Asia
  Bangalore India for South Asia (including India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka)
  6-17 December

The deadlines to apply for any of these refresher courses in 2010 is 2 months prior to the starting date of the course.

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