| Learning objectives |
To achieve the grade 12, students should meet the
following learning objectives with no or only minor mistakes or
errors:
- Analyse the interplay of aid rhetoric, policy, management,
practice and impact in relation to development aid
interventions.
- Outline and assess the relevance, design, effectiveness and
sustainability of various types of private sector development
programmes.
- Apply and assess analytical tools of development aid
management, including planning, implementation and
evaluation.
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| Course prerequisites |
| Bachelor in social sciences |
| Examination |
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Managing
Development Intervention in Sub-Saharan Africa:
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| Exam
ECTS |
7,5 |
| Examination form |
Home assignment - written product |
| Individual or group exam |
Individual exam |
| Size of written product |
Max. 10 pages |
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The paper should be written and structured as an
academic paper containing an introduction, an analysis, and a
conclusion. The paper must use academic referencing. The length of
the exam paper must not exceed 10 standard pages, not including
front page, table of contents, references and possible annexes.
Each page may, on average, consist of 2,275 characters (including
spaces), e.g. equal to 35 lines of 65 characters each. The pages
should have a margin of at least 3 cm at the top and bottom, and at
least 2 cm in the sides. The font has to be at least pitch 11.
Tables, figures, illustrations etc. do not count towards the number
of characters, but do not entitle you to exceed the maximum number
of pages allowed. This means that, in practice, all forms of
illustrations count as the amount of text they supplant. |
| Assignment type |
Case based assignment |
| Duration |
72 hours to prepare |
| Grading scale |
7-step scale |
| Examiner(s) |
One internal examiner |
| Exam period |
Summer |
| Make-up exam/re-exam |
Same examination form as the ordinary
exam
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| Course content and structure |
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The course aims to provide students with a conceptual and
theoretical overview of the discourse in development studies and
policies. It will introduce students to a range of more practical
analytical tools and experiences with development assistance
intervention in general and in SSA in particular. Within the
contemporary context of international development policies the
course emphasizes in particular market and business sector driven
development including aid interventions in support of local
business development and poverty alleviation. The course covers
international aid strategies, experiences and analytical tools and
draws upon practical and theoretical experiences of course
faculty.
The course covers four overall and interrelated topics: The
first topic consists of an introduction to the trends in
international development assistance with particular emphasis on
the evolution of policy aims, themes and strategies of donor
countries in relation to African countries. It will examine the
overall context of aid including trends in Africa, the UN
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While the focus will mainly
be on OECD country-based donors, we will also look at the role of
non-traditional donors that are increasingly important in Africa,
namely China. The second topic drawing on examples from
Africa is concerned with methodologies and tools for planning,
implementing, evaluating and communicating development
interventions). We focus on management tools such as the Logical
Framework Analysis (LFA), Theory of change and evaluation
methodology. The third topic is business sector or Private
Sector Development (PSD) programmes. We will discuss and assess the
relevance, design, effectiveness and long-term sustainability of
the various types of PSD programmes and related analytical tools.
The fourth and final topic will address the cross cutting
questions of impact of aid including on poverty alleviation and
pro-poor aid interventions emphasising the potential impacts of aid
on poverty reduction and recent initiatives to combat world
poverty, i.e. the overriding objectives of the Sustainable
Development Goals
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| Teaching methods |
| Lectures, group work, workshop, guest lectures
with practical content |
| Student workload |
| Lectures |
30 hours |
| Preparation and exam |
176 hours |
| Total |
206 hours |
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