South Africa: NGO Week 2003: Struggle for Social Justice continues!

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Nov 06, 2003

The South African NGO Coalition Biannual NGO Week, held from 27- 29th October 2003, has successfully concluded its deliberations, according to Sangoco. Read more by clicking on the URL provided.

South Africa

Safe Motherhood Workshop

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Nov 06, 2003

The global White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood (WRA) and Zambia White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood are hosting a workshop focusing on building the skills of the WRA members and National Secretariats.

Mozambique: Field Director

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Nov 06, 2003

The Central Mozambique Field Director (CMFD) oversees HAI'S public health projects in Manica and Sofala Provinces in Central Mozambique, which includes the administration of multiple grants and 40+ staff in two field offices in Chimoio and Beira. Currently we have projects for child survival, malaria control, HIV voluntary counselling and testing, prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission, care for people with AIDS, and a pilot study of a syphilis rapid test.

Mozambique

SWAZILAND: Halting measles outbreak hampered by religious sects

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Oct 30, 2003

An outbreak of measles this month in all four of Swaziland's regions has health organisations scrambling to immunise children in populous urban townships.

Swaziland

CS Mott Foundation to focus more on Aids and ethnic relations in SA

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Oct 30, 2003

The CS Mott Foundation's Board of Trustees recently decided to continue the Foundation's Civil Society programme in South Africa in years to come. The programme focuses on three themes: strengthening the non-profit sector and philanthropy; promoting rights, responsibilities and participation; and improving race and ethnic relations with HIV/Aids as a cross-cutting theme.
The Foundation is to further stress the cross-cutting theme of HIV/Aids over all three grant making areas, and it wil...read more

Ethiopia: EU gives Ethiopia $440m

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Oct 30, 2003

The European Union is to fund 3.8 billion birrs ($440m) worth of development projects over the next five years, State Minister for Finance and Economic Development Mulu Ketsela said on Wednesday.

Ethiopia

Africa: New thinking needed on Aids orphans

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Nov 06, 2003

A review of research literature - 81 published and unpublished papers, books and reports - on the impact of HIV/Aids on children in Africa has found significant gaps and biases that shape responses to Aids-affected children.

Africa: Poverty focus of IMF risks being discredited, says Eurodad paper

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Nov 06, 2003

Unless the IMF takes clear steps to ensure policy flexibility and Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) as soon as possible, the much hailed poverty focus of the Poverty Reduction Growth Facility (PRGF) it continues to use will become largely discredited, says a paper from the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad). This paper shows that in the PRGF, the IMF continues to use the same rigid economic model and fails to recognise that different macroeconomic policy options exist.

Africa: Child Poverty in the Developing World

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Nov 06, 2003

Using a pioneering methodology, this survey from UNICEF UK measures the extent of child poverty, in terms not only of income, but of deprivation of basic human rights such as shelter, food, water, sanitation, health, education and information. The researchers analysed survey data on nearly 1.2 million children from 46 countries collected mainly during the late 1990’s.

Zambia: Institutions Dealing With Corruption Have Failed, says TI report

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Nov 06, 2003

Institutions dealing with corruption have failed to raise levels of accountability in Zambia, a Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) report has revealed. But Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) director of operations Bradford Malumbe has dismissed the report.

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