by Katharine Vincent | Feb 5, 2011 | Projects, Training, Travel
Dr Katharine Vincent and Tracy Cull will shortly be leaving for Accra, Ghana, where they will be acting as mentors at the UNU-UNISDR-SEI Anglophone African Writeshop. The event, which aims to assist African early career scholars, practitioners and policy-makers to...
by Katharine Vincent | Jan 11, 2011 | Publications
The paper “Cell phones, electronic delivery systems and social cash transfers: Recent evidence and experiences from Africa” by Dr Katharine Vincent and Ms Tracy Cull has just been published in the journal International Social Security Review. The paper is based on...
by Katharine Vincent | Jan 8, 2011 | Travel
Dr Katharine Vincent has just left for Tsukuba, Japan, where she will participate in the first Lead Authors Meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Working Group Two for the forthcoming Fifth Assessment Report. Katharine is a lead author on...
by Katharine Vincent | Nov 30, 2010 | Projects, Publications
South Africa’s Department for Environmental Affairs has released the draft Second National Communication for comment. The document, which reports on the current status of projected climate change in South Africa, together with a status update on mitigation and...
by Katharine Vincent | Nov 19, 2010 | Projects, Training
Dr Katharine Vincent and Ms Tracy Cull have just completed the fourth rollout of the University of the Witwatersrand’s short professional training course on Introduction to Vulnerability Risk Assessment in Johannesburg. The National Qualifications Foundation (NQF)...