Education and Employment in Rwanda

Applied Gendered Perspectives: Sportsview Hotel: 10-11 October 2011

Programme Monday 10 October 2011

7:30-8:30 am 8:30-9:30 am
Registration

Opening Session
Moderator: Prof. Shirley Randell PhD: Director, Centre for Gender, Culture and Development Prof. George K. Njoroge, PhD: Rector, Kigali Institute of Education Welcoming Remarks Inyumba Aloisea Hon. Minister of Gender and Family Promotion (confirmed) Opening Address Coffee/Tea Break

9:30-9:55 am 10:0011:00am

Panel discussion
Moderator: Oda Gasinzigwa , Gender Monitoring Office

Education and Employment in Rwanda: Gendered Perspectives

Dr Erasme Rwanamiza Director General Ministry of Education Anna MUGABO Director General Ministry of Public Services and Labour (confirmed) Mr EMMANUEL NZARAMBA Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion (confirmed)

11:00-12:30 pm
Room 1

Session 1
Room 2

Academic analysis of gender and education

Moderator: Prof Nzabalirwa Wenceslas, KIE Gendered curriculum Garnett Russell, PhD candidate, Stanford University, USA Girls in science and technology Betty Mategeko, Lecturer of Development Studies, Makere University, Uganda Education for social change: the problem of gender relations Dr Anne-Marie Hilsdon, Senior Lecturer, CGCD, KIE

12:30-1:20 pm 1:30-2:30 pm
Room 1

Lunch

Session 2
Room 2

Barriers to accessing education

Moderator: Dr Sipora Kasanga, CGCD Transition and Retention of Girls in the 9 year Basic Education in Rwanda: A Case Study in Kayinya Child Friendly School, Nyarugenge District, Kigali, Rwanda, Dr Olukemi Asemota, Research Adjunct, CGCD and Professor Shirley Randell, Director, CGCD Young Mothers the challenges of girlhood and education in rural northern Rwanda Maja Haals Londorf, PhD Candidate, London School of Economics, UK

2:30-2:55 pm

Coffee/Tea Break 1

3:00-4:00 pm
Room 1 Disability at school

Session 3
Room 2

Moderator: Dr Karangwa Evariste, KIE Developing the natural abilities of children and young people with disabilities in school and the community Silas NGAYABOSHYA, Handicap International Program A Fair Chance for Deaf Children Dr Jemma Hogwood, Fair Children Youth Foundation, Musanze

4:00-5:00pm

Session 4
Room 1 Room 2 Schools as an avenue for life skills and Future prospects for street children, child- and family education youth headed households and orphans
Moderator: Professor Ben Womens promotion through education in Rwanda: from colonial times to present Ilaria Buscaglia, PhD student University of Turin and Prof Shirley Randell AO, PhD, Director, CGCD, KIE Moderator: Rachel Mahuku The value of education? the challenge of falling through the system - I am not clever enough for school: Young perspectives on disadvantage Maja Haals Londorf, PhD Candidate London School of Economics, UK

Education and Employment in Rwanda

Applied Gendered Perspectives: Sportsview Hotel: 10-11 October 2011
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Programme Tuesday 11 October 2011

Registration

8:30-9:00 am 9:00-10:00 am

Opening session
Moderator: Dr Beatrice Yanzigiye, Confucius Institute Presentation of key findings and issues from day before Anastase MUREKEZI Hon. Minister of Public Services and Labour, Address on employment issues (confirmed or PS) Prof Pamela Abbott IPAR (confirmed)

Linking Education to Employment

10:30-10:55 am 11:00-12:30 pm Coffee/Tea Break

Session 5
Room 1 Decent work for womens empowerment
Moderator: Serafina SIFA Linking education and training to decent work for womens empowerment Odette Nyiramuzima KIE Student, Masters Program, CGCD Rwanda Social Security Board /Kicukiro Branch Manager Entrepreneurship training for self-employed women in Kigali preliminary research findings Carolein Vis, Msc. Candidate International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Intern for SPARK Rwanda, Gacuriro, Kigali

Room 2

Education into Employment

Moderator: Dr Joseph Gahama Supporting Student Survivors into Employment Eugene Ndagijimana, Program Co-ordinator, Education into Employment Program, AERG Education Quality and Womens Preparation for Rwandas Workforce: A Practitioners Perspective Mary M Powell, Lead Instructor, Akilah Institute for Women Learning Chinese: Education for International Employment KONG Lingyuan, Confucius Institute at Kigali Institute of Education

12:30-1:30 pm 1:30-3:00 pm Barriers to Employment

Lunch

Session 6
Barriers to Employment
Moderator: Olukemi Asemota Unveiled potential of refugee women: Barriers to employment for Congolese women living in refugee camps in Rwanda in relation to gender, rural/urban areas, trauma and health. Christine Peace Apio, AFFILIATION: American Refugee Committee International (ARC Rwanda) Moderator: Dr Anne Marie Hildson, CGCD Disability and work Dr Karangwa Evariste A/Dean, Postgraduate Studies and Research , Chair of TDIER --- Coordinator of EdQual, KIE Silas NGAYABOSHYA, Handicap International Rwanda Complemented by panel 1. Jeanne d'Arc Ntigurirwa of Rwanda Union of the Deaf, Graduate with Distinction but stiil unemployed. 2. Mugisha Jacque of Rwanda Union of the Blind, Journalist of ORINFOR and completing the studies at the School of Journalism) 3. Victor Zinda, a wheel chair user. Student of KIE, head of a family of three, and working.

3:00-3:25 pm 3:30-4:30 pm

Coffee/Tea Break

Session 7
In the workplace
Moderator: Olukemi Asemota Gender Knowledge Gaps in High Education Sector of Rwanda: the Case of the Center for Gender, Culture and Development, Kigali Institute of Education, Dr Venera Zakirova, CGCD Gender Based Corruption in the workplace Appollinaire Mupiganyi, Transparency Rwanda Gender Analyses of GIZ Development Cooperation Programmes in Rwanda a starting point for a more systematic Gender Mainstreaming, Esther Tdijani, Gender Officer, GIZ Office Kigali HIV/Aids in the workplace Innocent Kamali, RRP plus

4:30-5:00 pm 5:00-5:30pm 6:00pm

Session 8
Rapporteurs from the day if possible areas for future research identified and discussed Angelina Muganza, Executive Secretary Public Service Commission (confirmed) Closing address Cocktail