West Africa: Regional Coordinator

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Jan 06, 2005

The Global Greengrants Fund supports grassroots groups working for environmental justice and sustainability around the world. The Greengrants model for grantmaking is founded on a set of advisory boards made up of environmental and social justice leaders. All grants are made on the recommendation of these advisory board volunteers. We are hiring a part time Coordinator to facilitate the work of two of our West Africa Advisory Board.

Grantcraft website

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Jan 06, 2005

GrantCraft began at the Ford Foundation, with a kernel of case studies and examples that had long served as orientation materials for new program officers. From there, starting in October 2001, we've sought out hundreds of grant makers and grantees from other organizations to add examples and insights of their own, share successes and disappointments, and draw lessons from what they've done and observed.

Sierra Leone: Field Coordinator

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Jan 06, 2005

The Center for Victims of Torture is seeking a Field Coordinator to coordinate logistics operations of a psycho-social mental health project in Sierra Leone for refugees and internally displaced persons who have suffered torture and war trauma. The position has a one-year, renewable agreement.

Sierra Leone

Egypt: Program Officer

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Jan 06, 2005

The Program Officer will be responsible for the program in Governance and Civil Society in the Middle East and North Africa region. Under the direction of the Representative in Cairo, the Program Officer will design, implement, monitor and evaluate a portfolio of initiatives and grants addressing a variety of governance and civil society issues.

Egypt

Extended workshop on social history

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Jan 06, 2005

The fourth CODESRIA/SEPHIS Extended Workshop on New Theories and Methods in Social History will be held from 5th to 25th September, 2005. The theme for the 2005 session is Gender, Ethnicity and Culture. The Workshop will be organised around the comparative experiences of Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Caribbean.

Social Capital Foundation conferences

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Jan 06, 2005

The Social Capital Foundation conferences are open to all those who want to understand the world in which they live. The academic content of the conferences is excellent but the language used is clear and the conclusions are operational. Emphasis is put on lively presentations based on modern communication techniques, in order to allow congenial, interactive communication style. Speakers are scholars with a wide variety of profiles and practitioners with an established academic background.

West Africa: Can decentralisation improve schools?

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Dec 16, 2004

Decentralization is at the top of the reform agenda in many countries. Governments and agencies consider it an indispensable step in efforts to provide quality education for all. However, little is known about its actual impact on local schools. The recent newsletter of the UNESCO Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) looks at the situation in West Africa and Asia.

Uganda: Is Higher Education Doomed?

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Dec 16, 2004

The National Council for Higher Education has come up with a damning report on the status of higher education in the country. While noting positive developments in the sector like the number of universities increasing from one in 1987 to 28 today, it warned that 11 of them were operating illegally. The draft report being released at a stakeholders' workshop in Kampala paints a gloomy picture of the sector saying it is characterised by poor record keeping, under-funding, outmoded curriculum an...read more

Uganda

Malawi: NGOs monitor budget spending on education

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Dec 16, 2004

A new report by Oxfam International has highlighted the watchdog role NGOs can play in monitoring budget spending in resource-poor countries like Malawi. In Malawi, the Civil Society Coalition for Quality Basic Education (CSCQBE), a grouping of NGOs, began monitoring how the education ministry was spending its budget allocation three years ago.

Malawi

Africa: Literacy skills - proven pathway out of poverty

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Dec 16, 2004

At least 1.2 billion poor people are not able to read or write. This restricts their ability to carry out every day activities such as read signposts, understand medicine labels and machinery instructions, confirm commercial transactions and avoid being cheated. Increasing the pool of literate and numerate people is essential to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

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