South Africa: Associates Civil Society Watch

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Oct 02, 2007

CIVICUS seeks to recruit Associates for its Civil Society Watch Programme (CSW).

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Africa: IWMF accepting proposals for research project

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Oct 02, 2007

The International Women’s Media Foundation seeks proposals for a research consultant to conduct a needs assessment of the current news media environment with respect to agriculture, rural development and women in Africa. The needs assessment is an integral part of the first phase of a four-year project that the IWMF will conduct among news media organizations in Africa.

Liberia: Go to school or go to jail

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Sep 21, 2007

Under a new education policy, parents or guardians of children will soon face fines or even be arrested for allowing their children to sell in the streets during school hours. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf announced the measure in early September, which is said to be aimed at increasing school enrolment and curbing child labour.

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Sierra Leone: Schools without teachers

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Sep 21, 2007

With only 19 per cent of children in school following Sierra Leone’s decade-long civil war, the former government began an ambitious project to renovate and build more schools. But while brightly painted blue and white classrooms have already popped up in towns and villages around the country they come at a time when fewer teachers than before are willing to work in them.

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Southern Africa: South Africa draws child migrants

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Sep 21, 2007

Unaccompanied children, an average of 14 years old but sometimes as young as seven, are being drawn to South Africa from neighbouring states in the hope of work and receiving an education, according to report published by Save the Children (UK). The report, compiled from a survey of 130 undocumented children in South Africa, said 'there are sufficiently large numbers of children crossing borders unaccompanied to warrant major concern'. An estimated 1,500 underage Zimbabweans enter South Afric...read more

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Vote For Pambazuka News

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Sep 21, 2007

For the third year running, Pambazuka News has been selected as one of 25 finalist nominations in the 'Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics'.

Pambazuka News is produced by a pan-African community of some 300 citizens and organisations – academics, policy makers, social activists, women’s organisations, civil society organisations, writers, artists, poets, bloggers and commentators.

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Nigeria: Speaker condemned over US$5,000,000 contracts

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Sep 26, 2007

The leadership of Nigeria's House of Representatives acted against the rules in approving contracts worth US$5,000,000 to renovate two official residences and buy 10 cars, a panel of legislators said on Wednesday. The scandal over the contracts has paralysed the House, where emotions run so high that members came to blows last Thursday during a hearing by the investigative panel after some of them shouted 'thief!' at Speaker Patricia Etteh.

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Africa: Supporting secondary schools in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Sep 21, 2007

Providing secondary education for the rapidly increasing number of primary school graduates is becoming a key policy issue throughout sub-Saharan Africa. This paper by the Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity offers new insights into necessary reforms to expand secondary enrolment. It outlines the current status and structure of provision, and the demographic issues that will influence access.

Netherlands: Full professor in governance, policy analysis and political science

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Sep 20, 2007

The Maastricht Graduate School of Governance wants to strengthen its senior research and teaching capacity in the broad field of governance, policy analysis and political science. We expect the professor to have extensive experience with inter-disciplinary education and research and with inter-faculty cooperation; expertise and international networks in the fields of political science and policy analysis.

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Sep 14, 2007

For the third year running, Pambazuka News has been selected as one of 25 finalists for the Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics.

Pambazuka News is produced by a pan-African community of some 300 citizens and organisations – academics, policy makers, social activists, women’s organisations, civil society organisations, writers, artists, poets, bloggers, and commentators.

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