The close of the entry period for the Champions of Quality Education in Africa competition is just around the corner, so make sure to enter online until June 24th 2009 at You can also nominate yourself or someone you know today. We’re looking to schools, teachers and administrators to find the best practices that are changing lives at the local, district or national levels. And with the help of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, we’re going to help them take it to the next level with networking opportunities and chances for funding.

Across the continent, African women play a significant role in improving the quality of life of their communities. From grandmothers to young girls, there are women in each country on the continent whose achievements have been stellar, whether in a small community, in their nation or across the continent. Yet many of these women and their achievements go unrecognised and unlauded. This initiative seeks to change this by highlighting the work of African women who are making a difference in the fields of agriculture, business and science and technology either at local or national level.

Within the framework of its strategy for building comparative knowledge on Africa produced from within the African continent, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) invites proposals from researchers based in African universities and centres of research for the constitution of Comparative Research Networks (CRNs) to undertake studies on or around a variety of themes identified as priority research themes within the framework of the CODESRIA strategic plan for the period 2007 - 2011.