Future events
- 2026-05-13T11:00:00+02:00
- 2026-05-13T12:00:00+02:00
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WednesdayZEF Colloquium with Marthe Wandou (Right Livelihood Awardee)
In a context of cultural and traditional practices in Northen Cameroon, the patriarchy system has created gender inequalities between men and women with many consequences on women and girls. The Boko Haram crisis has worsened the situation with women and girls being most affected by sexual and gender based violences leading to severe trauma. On this backdrop, Marthe Wandou founded the non-profit NGO Action Locale pour un Développement Participatif et Autogéré (ALDEPA) in 1998, working with community-based approaches, effective strategies and tools in rural communities and schools. Girls’ clubs, child protection committees, peace and non-violence clubs, positive masculinity ambassadors are some community organisations that ALDEPA helped to establish, to address the root problems and to bring sustainable solutions to reinforce legal frameworks, sensitization, and capacity building, and to change the situation with real positive impacts for women and girls.
- 2026-05-28T16:00:00+02:00
- 2026-05-28T17:00:00+02:00
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ThursdayINTERFACES colloquium: Sustainable land management in Ghana
Land degradation is a major concern in northern Ghana, driven by the complex interactions between human activities and the region’s fragile ecology. Sustainable land management (SLM) has emerged as an integrated strategy to address this challenge. This presentation explores land degradation in northern Ghana through a systems thinking perspective, focusing on how governance actors identify leverage points and deploy policy instruments to drive behavioral change and foster sustainable transformation of agricultural systems. Targeting mechanisms, especially when support packages must be distributed to smallholders to enable or incentivize the adoption of SLM practices, are also discussed. The findings provide a basis for stakeholders to evaluate the extent to which key challenges in agricultural sub-systems have been identified, suitable solutions formulated, and policy instruments effectively applied to facilitate SLM scaling.