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21 - 27 November 2010
2010-09-16, Issue 496
The Refugee Law Project (RLP), Faculty of Law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, in collaboration with the African Transitional Justice Research Network (ATJRN) has established an Institute for African Transitional Justice (IATJ). The institute i...
Kenya: SAMOSA Festival 2010
2010-09-17, Issue 496
The SAMOSA Festival is the premier biennial festival for cross cultural interaction in Kenya. The festival showcases the best in African, Eastern and Western cultures in the region, and is a celebration of race, cultural and ethnic differences. This ...
Global: The Tipping Point Film Fund - Screening and panel
Monday 20 September, 2010
2010-09-17, Issue 496
The Tipping Point Film Fund launches its very own Film Club at The Lexi Cinema in Kensal Rise on Monday 20 September with a screening of Stephanie Black’s award-winning ‘Life and Debt‘. The film, which starts at 7.15pm, will be followed by a panel di...
Global: IIE Fellowships for Threatened Scholars
Applications due October 4, 2010
2010-09-17, Issue 496
The IIE Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF) is pleased to announce a call for applications for threatened academics whose lives and work are in danger in their home countries. Fellowships support temporary academic positions at safe universities and colleges ...
Southern Africa: Access to information in quality education standards
February 2011, February 14-16
2010-09-17, Issue 496
From 14-16 February 2011 the Right to Know, Right to Education project will host a regional conference to address the issues of quality basic education for all. The conference will provide a platform for regional bodies, academics, civil society orga...
Africa: Reflections on International Humanitarian Interventions in Africa
A Symposium - 21 to 23 September 2010
2010-09-17, Issue 496
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the recording of “We are the World”, United Support of Artists for Africa (USA for Africa), in collaboration with Trust Africa, Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Humanitarian Action and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) will host a symposium entitled:...
CODESRIA: The Guy Mhone Conference on Development
The Renaissance and Revival of African Economies
2010-09-09, Issue 495
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is pleased to announce the third Guy Mhone International Conference, under the auspices of its Economic Research Programme. The theme of this year’s conference is The Ren...
CODESRIA: 2010 Gender Symposium
Gender, Migration and Socioeconomic Development in Africa
2010-09-09, Issue 495
In line with its mandate to promote high-level scientific and academic debates on various aspects of socioeconomic development in Africa, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) hereby announces the 2010 editio...
Kwame Nkrumah Pan-Afican Intellectual Cultural Festival
Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
2010-09-09, Issue 495
The Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, announces a bi-annual Kwame Nkrumah Pan-Afican Intellectual Cultural Festival to be organized under the auspices of the newly established Kwame Nkrumah Chair in African Studies, in honour of Nkru...
Global: XXV ILGA World Conference
2010-09-10, Issue 495
The XXV ILGA World Conference will be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, between the 4 and 9 December 2010. The theme of the conference will be “Building the way forward in times of crisis”. In the last few years and since the last World Conference in Vienna...
Uganda: ICON Women in Leadership fellowship
Call for Applications
2010-09-10, Issue 495
iCON Women and Young People’s Academy (IWYPLA) is pleased to announce its Call for Applications for the “2010 ICON WOMEN IN BUSINESS TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP FELLOWSHIP” programme....
Tanzania: Sustainable Microenterprise and Development Program (SMDP)
October 11–October 23, 2010, Zanzibar
2010-07-30, Issue 494
The Carsey Institute is very pleased to announce the SMDP-Tanzania, which will be held in Stonetown, Zanzibar, at the Zanzibar Ocean View Resort. The Institute will use the island environment as our classroom, where students will see sustainable deve...
Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship
National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
2010-08-13, Issue 494
The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program is an international exchange program that offers practitioners, scholars, and journalists from around the world the opportunity to spend five months at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), in Washin...
2nd World Conference on Humanitarian Studies
Changing realities of conflict and crisis
2010-08-06, Issue 493
The Second World Conference of Humanitarian Studies (WCHS), organized by the International Humanitarian Studies Associational (IHSA) and hosted by Tufts University, Medford, USA (in collaboration with Harvard University, Columbia University and the S...
Uganda: Short course on African Transitional Justice
2010-08-06, Issue 493
The Refugee Law Project (RLP), Faculty of Law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, in collaboration with the African Transitional Justice Research Network (ATJRN) has established an Institute for African Transitional Justice (IATJ). The institute i...
Information for Change 2010: Digital Publishing in Africa: The Next Steps
21 September 2010: 09.00 - 16.30
2010-08-06, Issue 493
Information for Change 2010: a free workshop in Nairobi linked to the Nairobi Book Fair Title: Digital Publishing in Africa: The Next Steps Date: 21 September 2010: 09.00 - 16.30 Location: Jacaranda Conference Centre, Jacaranda Hotel,...
Kenya: Second Storymoja Writing for Children workshop
Saturday July 31st - Saturday Sept 11th
2010-07-30, Issue 492
Second Storymoja Writing for Children Workshop will start on 31st July, 2010. We will meet for 3 hours on Saturdays, 10am-1pm, and for 2 hours on Mondays from 6pm – 8pm. Although the skill acquired will apply to all fiction-writing, the workshop will...
2010-2011 African Humanities Program Fellowship Competition
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
2010-07-21, Issue 491
The African Humanities Program at the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, announces competitions for: ...
Southern Africa: Practical financial management for NGOs
Getting the basics right
Mango
2010-07-21, Issue 491
Mango's mission is to help NGOs working around the world to strengthen their financial management and accountability. We are widely respected as the leading specialists in our field and recently received one of the UK's most prestigious awards at the...
Southern Africa: Strategic financial management for NGOs
Managing for financial sustainability
Mango
2010-07-21, Issue 491
Mango's mission is to help NGOs working around the world to strengthen their financial management and accountability. We are widely respected as the leading specialists in our field and recently received one of the UK's most prestigious awards at the...
Global: Peace and Conflict Studies: The Foundation Course
University of Peace
2010-07-23, Issue 491
The University for Peace (UPEACE) is pleased offering the online course on “Peace and Conflict Studies; The Foundation Course”. This is a 10 weeks course, from 4 October to 10 December 2010. The course will be delivered by UPEACE faculty members: D...
Africa: The Annual Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference
2010-07-16, Issue 490
This year’s conference amends Kwame Nkrumah’s and Cheikh Anta Diop’s challenge to the African Personality—to move beyond mere festivals and cultural celebrations of African identity—to introduce a cohesive Pan-African Personality configured to reflec...
CODESRIA Sub-Regional Methodology Workshops for Social Research in Africa
Session for North Africa
2010-07-16, Issue 490
The 2010 session of the CODESRIA sub-regional methodological workshops will explore the conditions for the employment and validation of qualitative perspectives in African contexts. To this end, the workshops will be open to all the social research d...
Global: IASFM13: Governing Migration
2010-07-16, Issue 490
The 13th conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) will be hosted by the Refugee Law Project, Kampala, Uganda from July 3 to 6, 2011. The conference aims to explore key dimensions of the relationship betwee...
Rich Mix to host award-winning Paul Robeson Play July 29-31
2010-07-02, Issue 488
Call Mr. Robeson, an award-winning one-man play about the famous African American actor, singer and civil rights pioneer is to be performed at Rich Mix, Bethnal Green on Thursday to Saturday 29 to 31 July 2010. The play ends its current Spring/Summer...
Africa: CODESRIA - University of Ghana International Symposium
2010-07-03, Issue 488
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and the University of Ghana are pleased to announce the international symposium ”The Dream, The Reality: Re-assessments of African Independence”, to be held in Accra, Gha...
Governance and small-scale agriculture in West Africa
Call for papers
2010-07-03, Issue 488
African democracy institute Idasa is to hold a conference in Nairobi, Kenya, from 8-10 November, on "Governance and Small-scale Agriculture in West Africa". It will examine governance and public investment processes and how these are shaping small-sc...
Project Cycle Management-1: Planning
Participatory planning and design of projects
2010-06-25, Issue 487
This one week course gives an introduction to Project Cycle Management emphasising project formulation. Crucial in proper project planning is a thorough analysis of objectives that the project intends to achieve. This course enables participants to e...
Business in Ghana: Realities and opportunities
2010-06-25, Issue 487
Do you want an insight into the investment opportunities in Ghana right now? Have you been trying to locate means of finance for your enterprise in Ghana? Would speaking to a knowledgeable experienced and well connected business person from Ghana be ...
CODESRIA National Working Groups: A Call for Proposals for 2010
DEADLINE REMINDER: 30 JUNE, 2010
2010-06-25, Issue 487
One of the most important vehicles by which CODESRIA has sought to mobilise national-level research capacities and to channel these into organised reflections has been the National Working Groups (NWGs) which it has encouraged African researchers to ...
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