CID is holding an online panel event to celebrate the release of our e-learning course Dev101!
The three-part course is designed to provide participants with a basic understanding of working in, or engaging with, the international development and humanitarian aid sector. It provides insight into the fundamental principles and overarching history of international development and humanitarian aid, and how it has functioned in Aotearoa New Zealand, as well as the key concepts and principles in good development practice. It also gives an overview of current changes and challenges in the sector.
This talk will give you the opportunity to hear from those who helped develop the course, with time for Q&A at the end. Panellists will discuss the process of developing the course, what it covers, and its applications. Ultimately, they will weigh in on the value of the course to those in, and new to, the Aotearoa New Zealand international development sector.
Whether you're new to international development, or just want a deeper understanding of the sector, it's worth tuning in to this event to hear what the course is all about!
Panellists:
Sharon Bell
Member of the CID Reference Group who helped review DEV101
Sharon Bell is an international development programme manager and social scientist at Plant and Food Research. She manages work in Myanmar, Timor Leste, and the Pacific region focused on resilient horticulture, nutrition-sensitive agriculture, and climate-smart food systems. Sharon started her global development career with World Vision New Zealand back in the 1990s and has worked at MFAT, as research manager and trainer at The Workshop (a public narrative research and communications organisation) and taught at the Institute of Development Studies at Massey.
Sharon has a keen interest in capabilities, wellbeing and justice and her PhD from Massey University explored health justice, capabilities and health system development for communities in the conflict-affected context of Shan State, Myanmar. She remains involved in work in Myanmar professionally and in an advisory capacity.
Danica Waiti
Representative from Pacific Koloa Collective who helped review the DEV101 text
Danica Waiti is of Ngati Pikiao, Te Rarawa and Taranaki descent. Her experience in indigenous development and international programming spans over 20 years. With a speciality in research, monitoring and evaluation she has provided technical advice to projects in the Pacific, South-East Asia, East Africa and Caribbean regions working alongside governments and civil society groups. She is a Board Member for Family for Every Child New Zealand and Co-Chair of the Pacific Koloa Collective.
Ms Waiti is representing PKC; convened to provide accountability to the development sector and recognise the strategic value in a collective of indigenous Maori and Pacific practitioners and academics coming together. PKC is a safe space where conversations about re-framing development and humanitarian work are informed by our cultural values and lived experiences.
Charlotte te Riet Scholten-Phillips
Principal Advisor at The Mangrove Collective who was a significant contibutor and helped finalise the course.
Charlotte has 20 years of international development experience, in both development and humanitarian work, and in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Charlotte successfully gained funding for work in Rwanda from DFID (now the UK FCDO), USAID and UNICEF. Since moving to Aotearoa New Zealand, Charlotte has successfully applied for funds from MFAT for disaster response programmes in Asia, the Pacific, Europe and Africa. She has trained groups of people both as a secondary school teacher, teacher of English, and manager of volunteer programmes.
Registration:
Cost
CID members, University staff and students: Complimentary
Non CID members: $25