The Social Change Assistance Trust (Scat) is a Cape Town based, independent funding and development organisation. Our aim is to empower the rural poor, to strengthen civil society and promote social change. We do this by supporting local agencies working for development in rural communities. We work in partnership with those whom we fund by offering support in organisational development and capacity building. Contact Miriam du Toit at Scat - telephone (021) 418 2575 or

Scholarships fund one editor from a developing country to come to the UK to attend the annual course for editors of peer reviewed medical journals. The course is run by Tim Albert Training. This year it will be held in Tunbridge Wells, England, on September 27-29.

The Southern African training (SAT Programme) is seeking to recruit a professional officer for the remainder of its current funding phase until December 31, 2001) with a view of a five year appointment for the next phase from January 2002 to December 2006. The position is based in Harare, Zimbabwe and covers the countries of Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. We are looking for an African national and will give priority consideration to female applicants.

In a direct challenge to the world's pharmaceutical industry, the authors of a new UN report call on developing countries to strengthen their national laws in order to enable local production of cheaper, lifesaving AIDS drugs AIDS. Such an option can be pursued legitimately under compulsory licensing, a principle in international commerce that permits countries to "use patents without permission of the patent holder in return for a reasonable royalty on sale," says the Human Development Repor...read more

A Japanese education grant to provide schooling for Tanzanian children forced to work due to poor economic conditions, has been lying idle for nearly a year now.

Scores of absent educators in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province claim they have been intimidated by the community and do not feel safe in schools. However, they have been have been getting their salaries although some have
not been in a classroom since the beginning of the year.

When it comes to the selection of courses for your children, let their teachers guide you. They have the ability to judge the performance of students and help them select courses that would suit their individual needs, Ghana's top psychiatrist has advised parents.

The United Nations made a new bid for relevance with its recent Special Session on AIDS, but the trend of neglect by the press that Danny Schechter spotted last year hasn't disappeared.

The Foundation Center's mission is to support and improve institutional philanthropy by promoting public understanding of the field and helping grantseekers succeed.

The Africa regional workshop at the 10th International Anti Corruption Conference (IACC) in Prague is jointly organised by Transparency International, UNDP, Global Coalition for Africa (GCA), USAID and DfID (UK). It aims to provide a venue to discuss concrete steps to forge regional co-operation and action in Africa. The workshop will aim to present the current regional and sub-regional mechanisms (informal or formal) and actions that focus on fighting corruption in Africa, provide a forum to...read more

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