Nuffic Southern Africa

Huba Boshoff (Director: Nuffic Southern Africa) and Akalu D S.(Nuffic Programme Manager: Ethiopia) are attending the second Interregional Dialogue on Education and Development in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean hosted by OBREAL in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This pivotal event, themed “Shared Solutions to Common Challenges in the Context of the African Year of Education”. Huba Boshoff was part of a panel on “Funding and Funding Opportunities” together with DAAD German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), VLIR-UOS, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Embassy of Finland in South Africa (Iina Soiri), CAPES (Perfil), (Rui Oppermann) and the African Union . The panel explored the challenges and opportunities of funding within the broader global funding ecosystem. The panellists considered the need to align funding and funding mechanisms to support and enable equality in partnerships. “By design, funding mechanisms should support and enable equal and equitable partnerships. Thus, as organisations we should continuously reflect on the mechanisms, we are creating to facilitate such partnership.

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Nuffic Southern Africa Nuffic Global Development

Huba Boshoff, Director of Nuffic Southern Africa is currently facilitating a workshop titled: European Union cooperation; strengthening ties between South Africa and the Netherlands. The aim of the workshop is to bring together educational institutions from SA and NlL, explore opportunities to strengthen ties, starting new partnerships and engaging EU funding mechanisms.

Huba Boshoff, Director of Nuffic Southern Africa had the pleasure to attend and represent Nuffic Global Development at the 13th ANIE Annual Conference held in Zanzibar, Tanzania from the 4-6th October 2023. The conference brought together higher education stakeholders, policymakers, practitioners, academics and researchers, development partners and other stakeholders to explore ways in which international partnerships and collaborations can impact more on Africa’s developmental needs.