FINGO’S TRAINING: Innovation Focused Development Cooperation - What could be the role of NGOs?
Date: 6th of March 2020, 1 PM-4 PM.
Place: Fingo´s Amazon-training room, 6th floor
Elimäenkatu 25-27
Helsinki, Finland
The space is accessible.
Last day of registration: Friday the 28th
This workshop uncovers the many ways in which innovations and innovation system development policies have become crucial to development policy formation. We will especially discuss the possible role NGOs could have in these dynamics.
As new instruments, actors and tools emerge in development
cooperation, the role of innovation in the societal development of developing countries needs to be fully addressed?. This workshop delves into subjects as diverse as the changing
development policies between the Global North and South, the role of
innovation in international aid and development policies, the role of public, private and non-governmental sectors, universities and other
development actors, including the potential for inclusive innovation in local communities. In particular, the workshop addresses the following questions: Who benefits from
innovation-focused development policies, and if and how practical
innovation instruments include the global poor.
The trainer Lauri Hooli is a Senior Lecturer from department of Geography and Geology, University of Turku. He has a PhD in Geography, has been researching
innovation-focused development co-operation over a decade, and has lived several years in many countries around Southern Africa. He is an author of a recently published book Jauhiainen, J.S. & L. Hooli (2019):
Innovation for Development in Africa, Routledge, New York.
Training fee:
Fingo’s member organizations 20€
Other CSOs/NGOs 40€
Other participants 80€
For more information: koulutus@fingo.fi