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Exchange, Internships and Scholarships

Objectives: The aimed of these core activities is to provide other avenues of capacity building other than then those offered by AFRICA 2009.

Results:

• The two professionals (from Kenya and Botswana) who were given scholarships to pursue Masters Degree in Heritage Studies completed their course. These are former participants of the Regional Courses held in Mombasa.
• Four scholarships were provided to African professionals from Kenya (2), Botswana and Zambia to attended ICCROM courses, one in Wood Conservation held in Norway and on Sharing Conservation Decisions held in Italy.
• Three internships were also awarded. The first to Amekudi from Ghana to begin to work on the creation of the Heritage Database in Mombasa. The internship was hosted by PMDA. The other intern was offered to Ishanlosen Odiaua from Nigeria to work with CRATerre-EAG on developing material courses for the 6 th regional course. Another was given to Bokar Kante form Senegal to work on legal issues under the direction of Vincent Negri.
• Exchange of professionals also took place between Cameroon and Zimbabwe. The Cameroon professionals spent two weeks on an exchange programme.
• The AFRICA 2009 programme provided travelling grants to African professionals to attend the meeting on Modern Heritage for Africa held in Asmara, Eritrea from 4 – 7 March 2004. The meeting was organised by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre in collaboration with AFRICA 2009.