Libya has started expelling hundreds of Somalis that had tried and failed to reach Europe. Those on board the first flight have been talking about their ordeals in Libyan prisons and the dangers they faced as they tried to make it to a better life overseas. Mogadishu human rights groups estimate that nearly 2,000 Somalis have either drowned in the Red and Mediterranean seas or disappeared into the long desert between Sudan and Libya over the past six years.

Deadline: 15 October 2004

The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office invites applications for post-graduate study in the United Kingdom (UK) under the British Chevening Scholarship scheme. The candidates will be committed to returning to South Africa on completion of their studies to contribute towards its socio-economic development.

Deadline: 25 February 2005

The Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies, Center for Civil Society Studies is pleased to announce a call for applications for the International Fellows in Philanthropy Program for the 2004-2005 academic year. This programme based in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, affords an opportunity for advanced study, research, and training for up to eight participants each year who are involved in studying or managing private non-profit, or philanthropic organisations ...read more

Date: 28-29 September 2004

The National Labour and Economic Development Institute (NALEDI) extends an invitation to your organisation to attend a conference from 28 - 29 September 2004 on "Improving the Impact of Poverty Eradication Programmes in South Africa." Civil society organisations and trade unions have been allocated two delegates per organisation, while all other structures have been allocated one delegate

Save the Children, an international relief and development agency seeks a Nutrition Advisor to be responsible for the administration, field fiscal management and implementation of the program goals and the objectives in the USAID grant agreement related to food security.

The Field Coordinator will manage the Bunia office and participate in the implementation of the DDR National Program (Disarmament, Demobilization, Reintegration) for child soldiers in the Ituri district, among other duties related to International Rescue Committee projects.

The Regional Programme Manager will be responsible for introducing a regional management system for the projects in the Region; for the overall management of the projects according to GOAL Ethiopia’s policies and procedures with respect to the financial, administrative and human resource management.

Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) and Rhodes University in Grahamstown, invites applications for a public policy analysis capacity building programme. The programme will focus on two issues: regional institutions and regional development frameworks and African governance monitoring and advocacy and their impact on Southern African countries.

The South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAF) invites applications for Masters students in the field of international relations, politics or journalism for the 2005 SAIIA-KAF Research Internship. Interns are registered on a full-time basis at the University of Witwatersrand, whilst working at the SAIIA.

The Synergos Institute invites candidates who are current staff members of grantmaking foundations from any country, for the Senior Fellows Program, launched in 1999 to build the capacity of institutions and individuals involved in grantmaking and philanthropy. Applying a peer-to-peer learning methodology, the programme creates opportunities for foundation colleagues from around the world to learn from one another, to combine energy on issues of mutual concern, and to share knowledge with oth...read more

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