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Tuesday, April 23, 2024
EducationStudent Innovators for Development

ConDev personnel encourage student innovators and entrepreneurs to design tools and techniques that can be used to highlight issues and solve problems in the developing world.

Student Innovators for Development

ConDev personnel encourage student innovators and entrepreneurs to design tools and techniques that can be used to highlight issues and solve problems in the developing world.

Human-Elephant Conflict Workshop in Botswana

Human-Elephant Conflict Workshop in Botswana

In June 2016, ConDev teamed up with in-country partner Ecoexist and MIT’s D-Lab to bring together student and faculty innovators from around the world for a five-day workshop in Botswana to address human-elephant conflict. Get the full field report here, including the first-hand perspective of a student innovator!

Aggie Engineers Design Washing System

Aggie Engineers Design Washing System

In addition, students from Texas A&M’s Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) course conceived new technologies to improve the washing system for leafy vegetables in Guatemalan packing centers. Texas A&M student Madison Cooper was invited to showcase the team’s prototype at USAID’s TechCon Innovation Marketplace at MIT in November 2016.

High Schoolers Improve Cart Design for Guatemalan Farmers

And finally, Texan high schoolers designed an improved cart for flower growers in Guatemala’s ‪central highlands. These students from Hebron High School worked on several designs for a cart to collect cut roses in greenhouses.

Aggies Invent

ConDev collaborates with Texas A&M University’s Engineering Innovation Center to bring together students from across the Texas A&M campus to develop innovative solutions for our field projects over the course of 48 hours. In October 2015, students designed a Pigeon Pea Desheller that can be used by Guatemalan farmers.


South African Youth Develop Community-based Business Plans

ConDev spearheaded a business plan development competition to encourage entrepreneurship among youth in Knysna, South Africa. The competition sought to integrate young people into the mainstream economy of Knysna, where unemployment and poverty are rife, especially amongst school leavers and youth.

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The Program on Conflict and Development seeks to improve the effectiveness of development programs and policies for conflict-affected and fragile countries through multidisciplinary research and education.

The Program's work aims to reduce armed conflict, sustain families and communities during conflict, and assist states to rapidly recover from conflict.

This website is supported and maintained by the Conflict and Development Foundation - an independent 501(c)3 organization that is not part of the Texas A&M University System.

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ConDev’s research focuses largely on mitigating conflict related to four program areas, which were hand-picked based on their potential to combat key drivers of international conflict:

This website is made possible by the support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development. The contents are the sole responsibility of ConDev, and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.

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