Natural Resources & Development
Summer School Kyambogo University
A home, away from home
This course examines the linkages between development and Natural Resources, the principles of Managing natural resources, and the sustainable conservation of these resources. Depicting on case studies from a wide range of the current natural resources across the globe, the course considers how different social, political, economic cultural, and gender aspects compete for and sustain the natural resources.
The course also examines how environmental activists and their interventions conserved protected areas, energy, water, and land in the face of climate variability based on a gender perspective. The course will consider how the current international and development system elaborates and processes to sustainably manage the available natural resources.
The course aims at equipping students seeking qualifications for planning sustainable development, with practical approaches, knowledge, and skills necessary for meeting challenges of sustainable use of natural produce competent professionals who can plan for sustainable use of natural resources globally.
Course Description
Course objectives
- Learners will be equipped with skills and competencies in natural resource management and development planning.
- Learners will be equipped with analytical skills in preserving and conserving natural resources sustainably in the face of climate change.
- Learners will be equipped with knowledge of how to critique international responses to misuse of natural resources
- Learners will be equipped with skills in cross-cultural communication and collaboration.
Learning outcomes
At the end of a course, a student should be able to demonstrate:
- Acquired competences in natural resource management and development planning.
- Analytical skills of preserving and conserving natural resources sustainably in the face of climate change.
- Critique international responses to misuse of natural resources
- Skills in cross-cultural communication and collaboration.
Course structure
Week 1: Understanding development and Natural resources
- Development and Natural resources
- Development communication
- Culture and Conservation
- Field Visit at Uganda Wildlife Authority and excursion at the source of the River Nile.
Week 2: Functions and interventions
- Environmental activism
- Gender and natural resource management
- Energy and water resources
- Field visit at Uganda National Water and Gbaga fishing site.
Weeks 3: Community Outreach/practice- Murchison Falls & Albertine Oil region
- Nature walks in the National Park and Waterfall cruises/Nile River Excursions
- Visiting Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary- Home for only wild rhinos
- Field study at the fishing sites along Lake Albert
- Visiting Budongo forest – Nature walk- chimps and birding
- Understanding how communities adjacent to Murchison Falls National Park co-exist with Wild animals
- Albertine rift basin- Oil region
- Touring the park, game drives, birding and boating cruising
- Salt mining areas in Kibiro, Thermo energy farm and Kinyara sugar factory
- Community engagement in Batwa minority group in Uganda.
Week 4: Horizons for Natural resources and development
- Climate change and natural resource effects
- Oil and gas Resource
- Evaluations
Assessments and evaluations
Assessments and evaluations will be optional depending on your university/institutional requirements. A certificate of completion will be issued at the end of the Summer school
Registration fee for international students
2500 USD: This includes tuition fee, airport pick-ups and drop-offs, tour days at Murchison Falls National Park, guide fee, entrance fees at Ziwa Rhino Ranch and the national park, and boat cruises both at the source of Nile River and Murchison Falls. NB: International Participants will fund their air tickets.
Accommodation
The attached fee includes only accommodation at the university
Registration fee East African Students
$1000: for Kyambogo University Students
$1500: For East Africans. This includes airport and bus station pick-up and drop-off, two dinners, a tour day of Kampala, breakfast and dinner at Murchison Falls National Park, guide, entrance fees, boat cruises, Nile River and Murchison Falls, and school fees. NB Air of bus transport will be funded by the participants.
Accommodation
The attached fee includes only accommodation at the university