当地の開発パートナーの中ではささやかな活動をしているのがアイスランドのICEIDAである。ここのところの経済危機で国全体の経済が悪化しているが、国際協力の活動はまだ撤退していないようだ。彼らの全ての活動は把握してないが、水セクターでは地方の施設に太陽光発電による水供給施設を数か所設置している。まだ見学してないがそのうち行ってみよう。
ICEIDAからドナー会議に参加する女性がいるが、どうみてもアジア系の顔。アイスランドにアダプトされたとUNICEFにいた人が言っていた。欧米にいるアジア系女性とは違い、礼儀正しいところが好感が持てる。クライアントのある方が嫁さんにいいよなー、って言っていたぐらいだ。彼女が行っていたのはロンドン大のSOASだそうだ。植民地が多かったイギリスの最古のアジアアフリカ研究のメッカである。
国際協力分野で働きたい人にはお勧めの大学である。参考までに学校案内を転記する。日本の大学でも国際協力を専攻する大学院があるが、お金に多少余裕があれば行かせてあげたい学校だね。専門性というところが若干気になるけどね。勿論、世界の大学ランキングでも上位である。
The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) is a college of the University of London and the only Higher Education institution in the UK specialising in the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East.
"In 2008, SOAS jumped 15 places up to ninth best university nationwide in The Good University Guide, and we were rated fourth in London. We also moved three places up to eighth in The Guardian newspaper's league tables of top UK universities."
SOAS is a remarkable institution. Uniquely combining language scholarship, disciplinary expertise and regional focus, it has the largest concentration in Europe of academic staff concerned with Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
On the one hand, this means that SOAS remains a guardian of specialised knowledge in languages and periods and regions not available anywhere else in the UK. On the other hand, it means that SOAS scholars grapple with pressing issues - democracy, development, human rights, identity, legal systems, poverty, religion, social change - confronting two-thirds of humankind.
This makes SOAS synonymous with intellectual excitement and achievement. It is a global academic base and a crucial resource for London. We live in a world of shrinking borders and of economic and technological simultaneity. Yet it is also a world in which difference and regionalism present themselves acutely. It is a world that SOAS is distinctively positioned to analyse, understand and explain.
Our academic focus on the languages, cultures and societies of Africa, Asia and the Middle East makes us an indispensable interpreter in a complex world.
SOAS at a glance:
■SOAS has more than 4,600 students from 130+ countries, and 45% of them are from outside the UK
■Just over half our students are studying for undergraduate degrees, and 26% of them are aged 21 or over at the start of their course
■More than 350 degree combinations are available in social sciences, arts, humanities and languages, all with a distinctive regional focus
■SOAS offers an unparalleled range of non-European languages, all of which may be studied without prior knowledge
■More than a quarter of our degree programmes offer the opportunity to spend a year studying in another country
■SOAS has the largest concentration of specialist staff (300+ academics) concerned with the study of Africa, Asia and the Middle East at any university in the world
■Small group teaching remains an important feature of study at SOAS – our student-staff ratio (11:1) is one of the best in the UK
■SOAS has about 100 postgraduate programmes (taught and distance learning) in the social sciences, humanities and languages with a distinctive regional focus and global relevance
■The 2008 independent assessment of the quality of research activities in UK universities (the RAE) puts SOAS amongst the top research universities in the country
■All departments assessed in Teaching Quality Audits in recent years have been awarded maximum or near-maximum ratings
■The SOAS Library has more than 1.2 million items and extensive electronic resources for the study of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and attracts scholars from all over the world
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