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Community of Practice: SEMCA
Welcome to SEMCA-online
Sustainability, Education and the Management of Change in Africa (SEMCA)
Students with family in rural Ethiopia
Our motto: Fostering innovative, adaptable and ethical graduates with skills relevant to rural communities

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SEMCA is a Community of Practice linking all those interested in transforming African agricultural tertiary education to produce graduates and research relevant to

poverty reduction in rural communities
in a
modern, globalised, knowledge era


Newsletters on the list-serve will inform those with poor internet connectivity. Find back copies in Newsletters.

Go to Case Studies and Good Practices to see what is happening in African Agricultural universities.

Go to Resources for papers on topics under the following sub-links:
Why Transformation * Experiential and Interdisciplinary Research and Learning * Entrepreneurship * Personal Skills and Outreach * Faculty: Retention, Attraction and Retooling * Institutions: Assessment, Admissions, Regulations and Resources * Relevance and Quality * History and African Networks * Other resources

Links are given to other African networks engaging in transformation, to universities and to useful sites and sponsors.

The ILN platform hosting SEMCA is built around the Millennium Development Goals and resources are linked to them where possible.

Contact us:
Email semcaweb@gmail.com to join the SEMCA Community of Practice and receive the newsletter. Contact us with upcoming events, news and information. Share papers, opinions and feedback. Help to make our graduates and our research innovative and relevant: taking the best of the modern and the traditional and improving rural lives and the environment. Let us know if there is material on any particular topic you would like us to source or develop. Share the successes and the problems you have faced.




Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Click on any of the active Millennium Development Goal (MDG) icons below to see which items published on this community space relate to a specific MDG.
1 - Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty 2 - Achieve universal primary education 3 - Promote gender equality and empower women 4 - Reduce child mortality 5 - Improve maternal health 6 - Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases 7 - Ensure environmental sustainability 8 - Develop a global partnership for development
News, Scholarships & Opportunities
Generous IIED-NEF Fellowship: Greening Economics - New perspectives on the economics of environment and development
18 February 2008
SEMCA Newsletter - January 2008
25 January 2008
SEMCA Newsletter - November 2007
30 November 2007
SEMCA Announcement - September 2007
14 September 2007
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Events
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