https://www.kathryntoure.net Education, Research, Partnerships Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:34:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2022/12/12/policy-brief-writing-workshop-in-five-parts/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2022/12/12/policy-brief-writing-workshop-in-five-parts/#comments Sun, 11 Dec 2022 22:04:47 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=2083 Writing an impactful policy brief requires knowledge and practice. This workshop agenda supports learners to gain some of both. It covers what should be considered in drafting a policy brief, what should be included in one, and what makes for an impactful policy brief. The agenda may be adapted for writing policy briefs in relation [...]]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2022/12/12/policy-brief-writing-workshop-in-five-parts/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2021/04/24/canadian-authors-who-wrote-on-africa/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2021/04/24/canadian-authors-who-wrote-on-africa/#comments Sat, 24 Apr 2021 10:11:18 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1968 Download the file in pdf.]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2021/04/24/canadian-authors-who-wrote-on-africa/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2021/01/15/covid-stories-from-east-africa-and-beyond-lived-experiences-and-forward-looking-reflections/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2021/01/15/covid-stories-from-east-africa-and-beyond-lived-experiences-and-forward-looking-reflections/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2021 21:04:15 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1924 Coronavirus happened and is still with us. Its impact has been far reaching, and many lives have been deeply disrupted, even lost. Africans have sought to cope with it in various ways, including giving it names of derision, names of defiance, and names that point to a determination to overcome it. In one of Kenya’s [...]]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2021/01/15/covid-stories-from-east-africa-and-beyond-lived-experiences-and-forward-looking-reflections/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/06/26/why-is-non-academic-writing-so-important-even-for-academics/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/06/26/why-is-non-academic-writing-so-important-even-for-academics/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2020 04:49:50 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1854 It was such a pleasure, from Nairobi, to be with the 2019-20 fellows of the African Leadership Centre for a two-hour session on non-academic writing. We gathered via zoom — from Gambia, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and the United Kingdom. The fellows are impressive and inspiring. Enjoy the PowerPoint [...]]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2020/06/26/why-is-non-academic-writing-so-important-even-for-academics/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2017/12/04/ugandan-creative-writer-who-found-her-calling-through-history/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2017/12/04/ugandan-creative-writer-who-found-her-calling-through-history/#comments Mon, 04 Dec 2017 09:38:27 +0000 admin http://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1643 Doreen Baingana advises young people who want to venture into creative writing to ‘read, read, read. Write for yourself. Let yourself fail. Start again’]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2017/12/04/ugandan-creative-writer-who-found-her-calling-through-history/feed/ 0