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Africa: Wiki farming is live
2012-05-16, Issue 585
Based on the Wikipedia model, FarmAfriPedia is a platform for different stakeholders in the agricultural sector from the African continent to collectively learn and share from each other; and especially on issues pertaining to best farming practices using local content.
Global: Financing development after the financial crisis
2012-05-08, Issue 584
The faltering economies and tighter budgets of Europe and America, the traditional providers of development financing, have left organizations and communities wondering where the continued funding of their development projects will come from. In this special report on the Peace and Conflict Monitor website, veteran fundraiser and development guru Jürgen Carls reviews the remaining instruments and possibilities for north-south financing, and argues that the solution may be in a completely new approach to fundraising - an approach based on longer term relationships between funders and recipients, characterized by trust, openness, honesty, commitment, and international cooperation.
Request for proposals
African Peacebuilding Network Research Grants
2012-05-13, Issue 584
The African Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) invites research grant applications from African researchers, policy analysts, and practitioners working on conflict and peacebuilding at universities and research institutions or regional governmental and non-governmental organizations in Africa.
Global: Marable's Malcolm X biography wins Pulitzer Prize
2012-04-22, Issue 581
To celebrate the fact that the late Manning Marable has been awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for history for his ground-breaking book, Malcolm X – a life of reinvention, Race & Class has made available for free the seminal articles that Professor Marable wrote on the politics of the black working class in the US. The free downloads are: - ‘Rethinking black liberation: towards a new protest paradigm’ (Race & Class Vol. 38 no. 4, 1997) - ‘The divided mind of Black America: race, ideology and politics in the post-Civil Rights era’, with Leith Mullings, (Race & Class Vol. 36 no. 1, 1994) - ‘Memory and militancy in transition: the 1993 march on Washington’ (Race & Class Vol. 35 no. 3, 1994).
Regional Research grants on Global Health Diplomacy
Call for Applicants, Regional Network for Equity in Health in East and Southern Africa (EQUINET)
2012-03-29, Issue 579
This call is for applicants for grants for policy research into global health diplomacy , and particularly in relation to the manner in which African interests around equitable health systems are being advanced through health diplomacy.
East Africa Philanthropy Awards
Call for nominations
2012-03-30, Issue 579
The East Africa Association of Grantmakers (EAAG) is elated to announce the call for nominations for the inaugural East Africa Philanthropy Awards (EAPA) 2012. Launched in 2011, the Awards seek to identify, recognize and celebrate outstanding contributions of individuals and organizations to strategic social development and to the growth of the philanthropic movement in East Africa.
The Africa/Asia/Latin America scholarly collaborative program
Research grants call for applications 2012
2012-03-26, Issue 578
The Collaborative Tri-continental Program was launched in 2005 by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA) with the purpose of carrying out high quality social science research and enhancing the production of knowledge suitable for fostering southern perspectives on critical issues, and feeding these into global debates. The Program includes an annual South-South summer institute, research conferences, and grants for advanced research. The research grants are intended to promote collaboration among researchers from the South and to stimulate analytical empirical studies on topics of relevance for their regions and for the Global South.
Egypt: A biographical history of the Egyptian revolution
2012-03-21, Issue 578
Students at the American University in Cairo have created a biographical history of the Egyptian revolution. Many of the personalities profiled are not widely known in the Western press, but have been important in the evolution of events in Egypt.
Global: Gender equality in journalism
2012-03-15, Issue 576
This handbook is a timely, illustrated and easy-to-read guide and resource material for journalists. It evolved primarily out of a desire to equip all journalists with more information and understanding of gender issues in their work. It is addressed to media organisations, professional associations and journalists’ unions seeking to contribute to the goal of gender equality.
Global: Alternatives to privatisation
2012-03-07, Issue 574
The Municipal Services Project, which explores alternatives to privatisation, has a new website which is well worth a visit. It has links to publications, blog posts and a twitter feed.
Global: How institutional philanthropy can support the occupy movement
2012-03-05, Issue 572
Can institutional philanthropy - foundations established by the very wealthy and capitalized by investments in the stock market, hedge funds, and offshore investments - support a movement that challenges the very capitalist economic system that sustains it?
Global: Events listing at farmlandgrab.org
2012-02-27, Issue 571
www.farmlandgrab.org has launched an 'events' listing. This listing -http://farmlandgrab.org/events - allows you to publish and browse short notices about events related to land grabbing and what people are doing about it. These may be investor summits, film screenings, mobilisations, rallies, conferences, workshops, fact-finding missions or other. 'We hope this new feature will be particularly useful to activists and social movements who are struggling to stop land grabbing all over the world.'
CODESRIA: 2012 Small Grants Programme for Thesis Writing
Call for Applications
2012-02-13, Issue 569
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is pleased to announce its Small Grants Programme for Thesis Writing for the year 2012. The grants serve as part of the Council’s contribution to the development of the s...
South Africa: Publishers invitation programme to the Cape Town Book Fair
2012-02-12, Issue 569
The Goethe-Institut, in co-operation with the Cape Town Book Fair and APNET, is once again offering an invitation programme for publishers from sub-Saharan African countries. The aim of this initiative is to support the participation of publishing ho...
OSIWA 2012 Call for Proposals
Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
2012-01-26, Issue 567
OSIWA calls for proposals that seek to: 1. Foster building of strong governance institutions, processes and structures that are transparent, accountable and intolerant of impunity; 2. Build the capacity of civil society organizations and increase c...
Egypt: The timeline of a one-year old revolution
2012-01-26, Issue 567
Wednesday 25 January marked the one-year anniversary since the beginning of 18 days of protests that ousted the previous regime of Hosni Mubarak. Since that day, Egypt remains struggling to see the revolution succeed. Website [url=http://www.bikyamas...
Africa: Award encourages female scientists in developing world
2012-01-18, Issue 566
An award for young women scientists in developing nations is helping to motivate female researchers and assist them in overcoming cultural barriers. The 2011 OWSD (Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World) Award for Young Women Scie...
Global: The Mobile Media Toolkit, making media mobile
2012-01-18, Issue 566
The Mobile Media Toolkit, published by MobileActive, is a resource to help professional and citizen journalists, news outlets, and media development organisations find, evaluate, and deploy tools for reporting and sharing content on and to mobile dev...
United States: The African Activist Archive Project
2012-01-23, Issue 566
The African Activist Archive Project is preserving records and memories of activism in the United States to support the struggles of African peoples against colonialism, apartheid, and social injustice from the 1950s through the 1990s. The project is...
Global: Free materials on global justice
2012-01-15, Issue 565
War on Want has a range of material available for download on their website. Reports include: Food Sovereignty: Reclaiming the global food system; A Bitter Cup: Exploitation in the tea industy; Sour Grapes: Wine workers come from the poorest sections...
Africa: The African women in cinema project
2012-01-09, Issue 565
This project includes the virtual Center for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema, which features a Primer for African Women Cinema Studies, a guide to the film and book, Sisters of the Screen as well as a timeline, related links, and 'v...
Africa: Survey of African civil society organisations on security sector work
2012-01-16, Issue 565
WACSI on behalf of African Security and Governance Project Members, supported by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and the Open Society Institute (OSI), is conducting a survey to collate views on the need and practicality o...
Africa: Africa-UK, bringing together the African diaspora
2011-12-21, Issue 563
Africa-UK is a national programme bringing together members of the African diaspora in the UK to work towards the continent's development. It promotes diaspora activism to ignite, debate and drive positive change through events and training sessions. Topic under discussion include:...
Global: 'Violence Is Not Our Culture' launches new website
2011-12-21, Issue 563
The Global Campaign 'Violence Is Not Our Culture' has launched a new website, with a variety of new features aimed at making it a hub of information and knowledge on gender based discrimination and violence. 'We want this site to be informative, attr...
Global: Public images of resistance
2011-11-30, Issue 560
Meet You At The Crossroads is a library of public images of resistance, rebellion, revolt and rebuilding occurring in cities right across the globe, often on the streets; in the public realm. You are invited to send in your images and sign up to rece...
Africa: 2011 Africa and Middle East STARS Impact Awards announced
2011-12-04, Issue 560
The STARS Foundation has selected three African organisations working with children for this year’s 2011 Africa & Middle East STARS Impact Awards and one organisation for the Rising Star Award. The STARS Foundation supports frontline, impactful init...
International Water Law Scholarship Programme
2011-12-04, Issue 560
The Global Water Partnership together with IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, under the auspices of UNESCO, at the University of Dundee, is looking to build on their successful 2011 International Water Law Programme (www.dundee.ac.uk/...
DRC: Explore the DRC in maps and graphs
2011-11-22, Issue 559
Use these maps and graphics to explore the DRC as it prepares for just its second general elections in four decades....
UN Trust Fund 2011 Call for Proposals
2011-11-27, Issue 559
The United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women is accepting applications for its 16th grant cycle (2011) from government authorities, civil society organizations and networks - including non-governmental, wome...
Durban climate justice
Activist information for COP17
2011-11-16, Issue 558
This durbanclimatejustice.wordpress.com website is designed to provide logistical support for climate justice activists attending the COP17. With information on events, venues, actions, and essential activist advice on a cheap curry and decent beer a...
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