The African Nutrition Leadership Programme

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The African Nutrition Leadership Programme

• Fré Pepping, PhD

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Nutrition, Food Technology, Agrobiotechnology and
Health Sciences

• A cooperative endeavour of four universities
• Wageningen, Maastricht, Nijmegen and Utrecht
• (and five research institutes)
• VLAG's two major tasks are
• to provide its PhD students with a research and
  education programme of academic excellence
• to provide added value to its programme by
  funding research projects and by acquiring
  external funding for large-scale
  multidisciplinary research projects
• See www.vlaggraduateschool.nl

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History-NLPs

• 1994 1st edition of European NLP
• at this moment 12th edition going on
• target group final year PhDs/young post docs
• guests from LAmerica, Africa, Asia
  participated and established their own X-NLP
  (2006 guests from China/Iran)

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History ANLP

• 4 editions 2002 2005,
• 80 participants, good geographical spread
• Organisation
• North West University (RSA)
• Univ. of Venda (RSA)
• Wageningen University (NL)

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Successful??

• Azza Gohar (ANLP 2003) now director of Nutrition
  institute in Egypt
• Anna Lartey (ANLP 2002) elected in IUNS Council

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Future

• 5th edition 1 10 November 2006
• 6th edition 18 28 March 2008
• extra (shorter) edition prior to FANUS,
  Quarzazate, Morocco, 7-9 May 2007
• www.africanutritionleadership.org

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Not yet enough?

• Asia
• Also 4 edition between 2002-2005
• 105 participants
• 50 Indonesia, 10 from Vietnam, Phillipines,
  Thailand and Malaysia, rest Lao PDR, Iran,
  Cambodia