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On April 23, 2013, MINN sponsored a presentation by Thulani Mkhaliphi and Samuel Coker, two Humprehy Fellows at the University of Minnesota.  Mkhaliphi is a Director of Decentralization from Swaziland and predominately works on public policy at  the local level. Coker is a Human Resource Manager with the Corporate Directorate from Sierra Leone and deals with public policy as it relates to corporate issues. 

During their stay at the University of Minnesota, Mkhaliphi and Coker began work on a model of development to alleviate poverty and malnutrition in the more rural regions of their