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Idp Education — Association of Commonwealth Universities — IDP Conference on Developing Global Capacity through International Education 2001
16 slides from Idp Education's conference presentation, September 2001
Slide 1: Challenges to Capacity Building in Africa: Health and Gender Issues
Challenges to Capacity Building in Africa: Health and Gender Issues Dorothy Garland, Deputy Secretary General, Association of Commonwealth Universities IDP Conference on Developing Global Capacity through International Education, Sydney, September 2001 Session - Capacity Building: National and Inter
Slide 2: Brief statistical background
Brief statistical background: •HIV/AIDS •Gender Challenges to Capacity Building: •Gender •HIV/AIDS Potential Responses: •HIV/AIDS •Gender Commonalities
Slide 3: Statistical Background - HIV/AIDS
Statistical Background - HIV/AIDS At the end of 2000: • the global estimates of people living with HIV/AIDS had reached 36.1 million • the cumulative number of deaths due to HIV/AIDS had reached 21.8 million • Of those living with HIV/AIDS, by far the greatest number - 25.3 million - live in Sub- Sa
Slide 4: Statistical Background - Gender
Statistical Background - Gender At the end of 1998 in the Commonwealth university sector women made up: • 6.9% of executive heads (vice-chancellors, rectors, presidents etc) • 13.9% of registrars • 8.4% of deputy vice-chancellors • 13.2% of pro-vice-chancellors • 8.5% of deans of faculties • 15.2% o
Slide 5: Challenges to Capacity Building - Gender (slide 1)
Challenges to Capacity Building - Gender (slide 1) • Access to higher education • Maintaining a research profile • Excessive teaching and administration • Managing personal and professional roles • Developing capacity to lead • Discriminatory policies and practices • Exclusion • Lack of confidence •
Slide 6: Challenges to Capacity Building - Gender (slide 2)
Challenges to Capacity Building - Gender (slide 2) In Nigeria: • Society’s definition of leadership is masculine • History of militarisation links leadership with authoritarianism • Volatility of staff and student politics • Interpersonal problems In South Africa: • Racial differences • Political ac
Slide 7: Challenges to Capacity Building - Gender (slide 3)
Challenges to Capacity Building - Gender (slide 3) In Kenya: • Early dropout • Lack of childcare facilities • No accommodation on campus • Career ambition is considered ‘unfeminine’ • Sexual harassment • Anti-feminist backlash
Slide 8: Challenges to Capacity Building - HIV/AIDS
Challenges to Capacity Building - HIV/AIDS Three major challenges: • HIV/AIDS is a development issue • HIV/AIDS is especially devastating in developing countries • HIV/AIDS demands knowledge resources and committed leadership
Slide 9: Immediate challenges
Immediate challenges • Students and staff are falling sick and dying • Concomitant loss of productivity and expertise • Extra strain on friends and colleagues • Resources are required to recruit, replace and/or retrain staff • Provision of care, counselling and voluntary testing services • Funeral c
Slide 10: Barriers
Barriers • Lack of commitment • Fear and denial • Marginalisation • Religious and moral considerations • Apathy • Inactivity • No coordinated response • Lack of financial resources • Other problems • The problem is just too big • Lack of skilled human and technical resources • Reticence
Slide 11: Primary barriers to 'turning the tide' in Africa
Primary barriers to ‘turning the tide’ in Africa • Subordinate status of women • High prevalence of other sexually transmitted infections • High rates of sexual mixing • Sexual violence • Poverty • Weak health services • A young growing population • Illicit drug use • Stigma and fatalism
Slide 12: Potential responses - HIV/AIDS
Potential responses - HIV/AIDS • Open the debate • Educate • Prevent the spread • Set standards • Give leadership • Research • Plan
Slide 13: Potential responses - Gender (slide 1)
Potential responses - Gender (slide 1) • Legislative and infrastructural support • Increasing the quantity and quality of women postgraduate students through n Scholarships and fellowships for women n Improving conditions for postgraduate studies n Addressing gender issues in doctoral studies • Prov
Slide 14: Potential responses - Gender (slide 2)
Potential responses - Gender (slide 2) • Developing mentoring schemes and processes • Establishing, where appropriate, women’s universities and colleges • Advocating and teaching Women’s Studies as a catalyst for change • Introducing Gender Management Systems into the university sector
Slide 15: Commonalities
Commonalities • Commitment • Policies • Transparency • Mainstreaming • Human Rights • Advocacy • Support Structures and Networks • Statistical Data • Strategic Plans
Slide 16: Challenges to Capacity Building in Africa: Health and Gender Issues
Challenges to Capacity Building in Africa: Health and Gender Issues Dorothy Garland, Deputy Secretary General, Association of Commonwealth Universities E-mail: d.garland@acu.ac.uk www.acu.ac.uk