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NICHE
NFP
Linking knowledge worldwide
Kansen en uitdagingen voor het groen onderwijs
Jolie Franke
Team coordinator
Capacity Building
6 November 2014
Netherlands Initiative for Capacity
Development in Higher Education - NICHE
Netherlands Fellowship Programmes - NFP
 Commissioned by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign
Affairs from the budget for development co-operation
 Administered by the Netherlands organisation for
international co-operation in higher education (Nuffic)
 Service delivery by Dutch providers
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NICHE and NFP objectives
The NICHE programme contributes to
sustainable strengthening of higher education
and TVET capacity in partner countries, thus
contributing to economic development and the
reduction of poverty; 15 partner countries.
The NFP aim to increase the supply of skilled
labour; 51 countries.
Instruments for embassy’s bilateral cooperation
programme.
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Dutch development cooperation policy priorities:
•Water
•Food security
•Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
•Security and the rule of Law
NICHE pays special attention to equal
opportunities for women and men, and the link
between capacity developments and the needs
of the labour market.
Examples
Country Project title
Organisaton
(Dutch) Providers
KENIA
Improving dairy and horticulture
programmes for more food
security and commercialisation
Bukura Agricultural
College (BAC).
HAS Den Bosch, Radboud
University Nijmegen CIDIN, DLV Plant BV and
Egerton University.
Rwanda
Socio-economic improvement
through an integrated crop &
livestock system
Umutara Polytechnic
Ethiopia
AGRIBIZZ: development of
commercial agriculture
programmes at Ethiopian
universities
University College of
Agriculture and
Veterinary Medicine in
consortium with
several other
universities
Q-point in consortium
With HAS University of
Applied Sciences & Egerton
University (Kenya)
Q-Point, which has formed a
consortium with AERES
Group, CIDIN, Ghent
University, INHolland
University of Applied
Sciences, DLV Plant BV and
SID Consult.
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Groen onderwijs in NICHE en NFP: providers:
WUR
ICRA
Q-Point
AERES group
AOC Raad
Van Hall Larenstein
IPC Groene ruimte
HAS Den Bosch
DLV Plant
Meta Meta
VRIAN projects
Etc…
Thank you very much for your attention!
www.nuffic.nl/niche
www.nuffic.nl/nfp
http://www.nuffic.nl/en/capacity-building/in-the-picture
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