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    Events preview: This week in development cooperation

    Voting is wrapping up in Kenya for its general elections. Follow Devex's East Africa Correspondent Sara Jerving @sarajerving for on-the-ground reporting and catch up on Devex's coverage of the Kenyan election.

    By Devex Editor // 08 August 2017
    Polling stations in Kenya. Photo by: Sara Jerving / Devex

    Below are some of the most noteworthy events for the week starting Aug. 8:

    EVENTS IN THE NEXT 7 DAYS

    World Pitch Summit
    Aug. 7-11
    Silicon Valley, California, United States

    Webinar Series: Internet of Things for Agriculture
    Aug. 8
    Online

    Migration and Health Webinar One: True stories – effective advocacy for health and migration
    Aug. 8
    Online

    A Brief History of Tuberculosis Transmission Research Between 1880 and 1940: Yesterday, today and tomorrow
    Aug. 9
    Online

    ADB-ADBI Forum on Governance and Institutions
    Aug. 9-11
    Seoul, South Korea

    USAID’s 2017 Acting on the Call report
    Aug. 10
    Online

    Implementing Clinical Trials During Epidemics: The Ebola Experience
    Aug. 10
    Washington, D.C., United States

    Feed the Future DATATHON
    Aug. 11
    Washington, D.C., United States

    EA Global 2017: San Francisco
    Aug. 11-13

    Singularity University Global Summit
    Aug. 13-15

    2017 CDC National Cancer Conference
    Aug. 14-16
    Atlanta, Georgia, United States

    ODI in conversation with Rajiv Shah
    Aug. 16
    London, United Kingdom; Online

    Frontline stories: risks faced by health workers
    Aug. 17
    London, United Kingdom; Online

    INTERNATIONAL OBSERVANCES AND EVENTS

    Kenya 2017 general election
    Aug. 8

    Follow Devex’s East Africa Correspondent Sara Jerving @sarajerving for on-the-ground reporting from Nairobi, and catch up on Devex’s coverage of the Kenyan election:

    • Kenya election: NGOs lean on local influencers to temper risk of violence
    • Monitors grapple with how to measure social media's role in Kenyan election
    • Q&A: Dr. ​Alex Awiti on how the Kenyan elections could impact development

    International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
    Aug. 9

    International Youth Day
    Aug. 12

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