DRC: Programme Manager

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Aug 26, 2004

Concern Worldwide

The position has three chief responsibilities. 1) The management and development of Concern's Kinshasa programme; 2) the provision of technical support for the mainstreaming of HIV/AIDS in all programmes and 3) assisting in advocacy initiatives related to Livelihoods, HIV/AIDS and conflict-based issues. The successful candidate will hold a degree in a relevant field and have at least 2 years experience in livelihoods programming, including HIV/AIDS, in Africa and pref...read more

Democratic Republic of Congo

DRC: Humanitarian Programme Coordinator

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Aug 26, 2004

Oxfam UK

You will be responsible for managing Oxfam's strategic planning for, and immediate response to, humanitarian emergencies in eastern DRC and for co-ordinating all emergency response staff in the field. You must have at least three years of field experience in humanitarian work, some of it in a management position, and have an excellent knowledge of issue relating to emergency programming, humanitarian law and community empowerment.

Democratic Republic of Congo

South Africa: Forgotten schools: right to basic education for children on farms

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Aug 26, 2004

This document argues that the South African government is failing to protect the right to a primary education for children living on commercial farms by neither ensuring their access to farm schools nor maintaining the adequacy of learning conditions at these schools. The document provides a brief history of primary schools on commercial farms in South Africa and discusses the obstacles to the right to education children experience on these farms. The report also explains the current legal st...read more

South Africa

Africa/Spain: Madrid will no longer turn back immigrant boats

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Aug 26, 2004

The Spanish defence minister, Jose Bono, said that the navy would no longer intercept immigrant boats in Spanish waters unless they needed immediate help. The decision is a recognition of the increasing dangers faced by would-be immigrants. A quarter of the immigrants entering the EU illegally do so through Spain and the summer months bring feverish activity across the Gibraltar Straits. Many prospective immigrants head out into the Atlantic in flimsy wooden boats in an attempt to avoid borde...read more

Scholar Rescue Fund Fellowships

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Aug 26, 2004

This fund provides fellowships for scholars whose lives and work are threatened in their home countries. The fellowships permit scholars to find temporary refuge at universities and colleges world wide, enabling them to pursue their academic work and share their knowledge with students, colleagues, and the community at large.

Financial management training for NGOs

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Aug 26, 2004

Mango provides practical financial management training for NGO staff working in development and humanitarian aid. Mango’s courses are carefully designed to meet the real needs of staff working in the field and behind the scenes at head office.

Africa: The brain drain and education

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Aug 26, 2004

"The problem is that Africans who completed their studies in Europe and the United States are not returning to Africa. Since one in three African professionals will live outside Africa, African universities are actually training one third of their graduates for export to the developed nations." This is one of the replies to a feature on the brain drain and education in Africa in an edition of Africa Journal.

Africa: Evaluating the price of school fees

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Aug 26, 2004

As countries are calling a halt to school fees, millions more children are exercising their right to education. But after securing a place in school, how much are these children learning in overcrowded classrooms? The latest issue of UNESCO's Education Today newsletter looks at the trade-off between access and quality.

Africa: African principals discuss the quality of education

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Aug 26, 2004

The 3rd African Convention of Principals Conference opened on August 23 in Nairobi, Kenya. Some 600 delegates from mainly English-speaking Africa were to discuss the challenges facing the provision of quality education in Africa.

Africa: At what age?

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Aug 26, 2004

Children's right to education is currently under threat from early marriage, child labour and imprisonment; States have not adapted their legislation in favour of the right to education, and they do not have agreed standards for the transition from childhood to adulthood either internationally or nationally. In the same country, it is not rare to find that children are legally obliged to go to school until they are 14 or 15 years old but a different law allows them to work at an earlier age o...read more

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