{"id":66458,"date":"2016-03-22T13:06:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T11:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/symposium-on-capacity-building-in-sustainable-resource-development-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2016-03-22T13:06:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T11:06:05","slug":"symposium-on-capacity-building-in-sustainable-resource-development-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/symposium-on-capacity-building-in-sustainable-resource-development-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium on Capacity Building in Sustainable Resource Development in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya, March 22, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ — <\/span><\/p>\n

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Event:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Symposium on Capacity Building in Sustainable Resource Development in Africa<\/p>\n

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Date:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thursday\u00a0 24th March 2016<\/p>\n

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Gates Open:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 08.30 am<\/p>\n

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Time:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 08.45 am \u2013 16.40pm<\/p>\n

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Venue:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Main Hall of the Japan Information and Culture Centre\u00a0\u00a0 (JICC), Embassy of Japan<\/p>\n

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Organizers:\u00a0\u00a0 Japan Information Culture Centre (JICC), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Akita University<\/p>\n

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Overview: On 27th and 28th of August this year, the first ever Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in African continent will be held in Nairobi. Since its start, TICAD has always put its importance on Capacity Development.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the Symposium on Capacity Building in Sustainable Resource Development in Africa, Akita University, together with African universities will share its experiences in \u2018KIZUNA project\u2019 and their cooperation. This Symposium aims to provide the platform to discuss and consider the development of human resources in sustainable resource development by referring to Japan\u2019s experiences especially in relations with TICAD, ABE-initiative and \u2018KIZUNA\u2019 project.<\/p>\n

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* \u2018KIZUNA\u2019 project which aims to develop sustainable mining development in Africa, was launched by Japan. This program offers a chance to study in Master\u2019s program and work in Japanese companies, universities and public institutions on internship. 7 Japanese universities specializing in Mining are accepting African students.<\/p>\n

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*Concept note with details provided with this invitation.<\/p>\n

In Attendance:<\/p>\n

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Hon. Charles Keter- Cabinet Secretary for Ministry of Energy Petroleum \u00a0<\/p>\n

Hon. Dan Kazungu- Cabinet Secretary for Ministry of Mining<\/p>\n

H.E. Mr. Tatsushi Terada – Ambassador of Japan to Kenya<\/p>\n

Mr. Koji Noda- Senior Representative, JICA Kenya\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

The media are required to register in advance (by 23rd March 2016) before they attend this event.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya, March 22, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ — Event:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Symposium on Capacity Building in Sustainable Resource Development in Africa Date:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thursday\u00a0 24th March 2016 Gates Open:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 08.30 am Time:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 08.45 am \u2013 16.40pm Venue:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Main Hall of the Japan Information and Culture Centre\u00a0\u00a0 (JICC), Embassy of Japan Organizers:\u00a0\u00a0 Japan Information Culture Centre (JICC), Japan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-66458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}