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MA Alumni Survey

This is the last chance to participate in the ISS MA Alumni Survey. If you have not filled in the survey yet, we would really appreciate if you could do that now. We realize that it takes a bit of your time but the information that comes out of it is crucial for our future. Thank you very much in advance

ISS degrees automatically recognized in Ecuador

Thanks to good cooperation between ISS alumni (especially Gonzalo Ortiz) and staff members, we are happy to let you know that from now on the academic degrees, obtained at ISS by students from Ecuador, will be recognized and registered automatically by Senescyt. Read the letter from Senescyt

Library Erasmus University Rotterdam

Alumni living in the Netherlands can make use of the services of the library of the EUR in Rotterdam. Instead of paying a membership fee of € 30 a year, they pay € 10 (of which 50% contributes to the Erasmus Scholarship Fund).

Scholarships for self-financing students

The ISS has established two funds to support students without any other form of scholarship:

• ISS Scholarship Fund for Excellent Students (deadline 15 May 2011)
• ISS Hardship Fund (deadline 15 June 2011)

Both funds are open to Dutch as well as international students who wish to enroll in the MA in Development Studies.

Transatlantic Double Degree Programme in International Security and Development Policy

The ISS is pleased to announce the establishment of a new Double Degree Programme together with the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA and the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany. The two-year Double Degree programme will start in the autumn semester of 2011.

Scholarships are available from the EU-US Atlantis programme for citizens of EU countries and the USA if you apply before 15 April 2011.

Please contact the student.office@remove-this.iss.nl for an application form.

Download this file for full details of the programme (pdf)

Diploma course in Sustainable Local Economic Development

1st joint ISS-IHS diploma course

Starting on 6 April 2011, this is the first course to be offered jointly by two EUR institutes - ISS and IHS (the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies). 15 students from around the world have registered to take part in this three week diploma course. The course deals with the concept of Local Economic Development and how this is linked with (small) enterprise development. Find out more about the diploma course in Sustainable Local Economic Development

Fellowship deadline for USS programme on 22 April

Following the success of the 2011 programme, USS is offering the same course from 11 January till 23 March 2012. There are a limited number of NFP fellowships, and the deadline for application is 22 April - so please do get in touch with ISS soon if you are interested: student.office@remove-this.iss.nl

The course Universalizing Socio-economic Security finished on 25 March, with simultaneous diploma ceremonies at ISS in the Hague and CDS in Trivandrum, India.

7 students successfully finished a 5.5 week course in The Hague, 4 stayed for the 10.5 week course, and 3 went to SEWA in Ahmedabad and the Centre for Development Studies in Trivandrum. A very diverse group of participants created friendships and an atmosphere that will long be remembered. All were able to explore their own specific interest in great depth, including topics such as: international migrants from Vietnam, health insurance in Kenya, and policies for and participation of Roma in Hungary, - all benefiting from the international expertise and links created through the course.

Open access information

Find out the top 25 ISS working papers at logec.repec.org

The ICAS (International Convention of Asia Scholars) supplement to The Newsletter # 56 (formerly The IIAS Newsletter) focuses on book series in the field of Asian studies published worldwide. The supplement highlights some 13 series and is available free online at www.iias.nl/icas7-supplement

The Newletter is published 4x per year by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden. Free access is available at www.iias.nl/the-newsletter

SAGE Open is a new open access publication from SAGE, launched last January.

Informaworld: FREE ACCESS - Engaging with Asia

Routledge, in collaboration with editors and society partners, have selected over 100 recent articles to view free online which engage with current issues and interests across Asia.

Articles have been drawn from their leading Asian, European, Planning, Tourism, Business and Economics, Anthropology, History, Philosophy and Religion Studies portfolios. These articles are free to view online until 30th June 2011. Access the free articles at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/access/aas.pdf

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Alumni news & careers

ISS Graduate Dr Pascale Hatcher (PhD 2009) is involved in a new English-based undergraduate program, the Global Studies Major at the College of International Relations at Ritsumeikan University.

Umme Busra Fateha Sultana (Bangladesh, Women, Gender, Development 2008/2009) is Lecturer at the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh, in the department of Women and Gender Studies. Recently Oxford University (UK) has published one of her articles in their Journal which is distributed by the Project Muse. The article is based on Sultana's Research Paper, written at ISS. The full text is available here and Sultana is happy to hear your comment.

Emmanuel Joseph Mallya, MA in Public Policy and Management (2004/2005) and now a PhD student at the Universidade Fernando Pesos (UFP) in Portugal, would like to share this interesting article with other ISS alumni.

Scholarships in Indonesia

The Indonesian Ministry for Education DIKTI, Directorate General of Higher Education, offers scholarships to lecturers at universities to obtain an MA or PhD degree. More information can be found on their website: http://beasiswa.dikti.go.id/
Please use this opportunity yourself, or alert friends and relatives to it.

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Alumni meetings

In the past months ISS alumni meetings were held in Colombia, Bangladesh, USA, Bolivia, Surinam, Ecuador, Vietnam, India and Nepal. Apart from ISS alumni, also other alumni of Erasmus University Rotterdam and prospective ISS students were invited. The latter, to give them a flavour of what they can expect while at ISS in The Hague. Please go to the website for more information and great pictures.

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Refresher Courses

Refresher courses are certificate of attendance courses (mostly of two-week duration), organized for alumni in their home countries or regions, and meant to increase the impact and prolong the effect of earlier training.
Apart from 2 ISS Refresher courses that will be announced later, ITC and IHS have kindly invited ISS alumni to apply for their Refresher courses if there is anything of your professional interest. Please find the courses below.

IISS alumni are cordially invited to apply for Refresher courses that will be organized by IHS, the international institute of Urban Management of Erasmus University Rotterdam. Please check whether there is a course offer in your region and in your area of interest. Information on ISS refresher courses (two in 2011) and refresher courses of similar organizations will follow.

• Organizing Local Economic Development; In Cape Town, South Africa (October 2011)
• Displacement and Resettlement: Policies, Methods and Tools to Prevent Impoverishment; In Nigeria (October/ November 2011)
• Bridging Borders - Integrated Strategic Planning for Cities and Regions; In Egypt, (November 2011)
• Reducing Vulnerability for Flooding and Landslides -Gender Responsive Adaptation Strategies in Times of Climate Change in the Andes Region ; In Ecuador (December 2011)

ITC, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation of the University of Twente

• Climate Change and Carbon Assessment for the Benefit of Community Forest in Central and Southeast Asia, Nepal (November 2011)
• Biodiversity, Climate Change and Conservation, Namibia (November 2011)
• Targeting Urban Poverty Alleviation (TUPA), Tanzania (September 2011)

For more info, please visit the ITC website

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New publications

Working papers

In the first months of this year ISS has published many Working Papers, including the award winning Research Papers of MA students 2009/2010.

Inclusive Growth? Labour Migration and Poverty in India. Arjan de Haan ISS Working Paper no. 513
Education policy and frame conflict : student assignment in the Wake County Public School System in North Carolina. D.S. Eyre ISS Working Paper no.514
Bending the private-public gender norms: negotiating schooling for young mothers from low-income households in Kenya. Wekesa, Alice Nelima ISS Working Paper no. 515
Incorporating perceptions and experiences of violence into livelihood decision-making: a micro level study in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. Badiuzzaman, M. ISS Working Paper no. 516
Rescuing exclusion from the poverty debate: group disparities and social transformation in India. A de Haan ISS Working Paper no. 517
Chinese competition: do we need a new competition policy regime? P.B. Gaasbeek and P.A.G. van Bergeijk ISS Working Paper no. 518
Human autonomy effectiveness and development projects. Muñiz Castillo, M.R. Gasper, D.R. ISS Working Paper no. 519
Multi-membership and the effectiveness of regional trade agreements in Western and Southern Africa. A comparative study of ECOWAS and SADC. S.K. Afesorgbor and P.A.G. van Bergeijk ISS Working Paper 520

Books and articles

Economic diplomacy, trade and developing countries. Article by Peter van Bergeijk and Mina Yakop, in the special issue on 'Development and Geography' of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
Saturnino (Jun) Borras Jr. and Jos Mooij, together with former ISS colleagues Haroon Akram-Lodhi and Cristobal Kay (and many others) contributed to the Critical Development Studies Handbook: Tools for Change (edited by Henry Veltmeyer).
The PRS approach and the Paris agenda: Experiences in Bolivia, Honduras and Nicaragua. A.G. Dijkstra and K. Komives European Journal of Development Research
Book Review: Islam and Higher Education in Transitional Societies edited by Fatma Nevra Settie and Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela. L.A. Herrera Comparative Education Review (54/4)
Assessing the Scope for Partnerships Between Local Governments and Community-Based Organizations: Findings from Rural Morocco. S.I. Bergh International Journal of Public Administration (33)
Book Review on: Jenny Pearce (ed.): Participation and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century City. S.I. Bergh Voluntas (21)
The Roles of Aid in Foreign Politics - Putting Emerging Donors in Perspective. Ward Warderman and A. de Haan

You can also subscribe to ISS' free email notification service for the ISS Working Paper Series. Just supply your email address and you will receive a message each time a new issue is published, including the abstract and the link to the online version.

The ISS libarary maintains a depository of publications by ISS staff and current and former students. The library also highlights ISS publications on its webpages.Access the ISS library.

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