Uganda: Teachers Threaten to Strike

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Aug 12, 2004

About 100 primary school teachers in Rubaya and Butanda sub-counties have threatened to down their tools unless the government pays them their salary increment. The teachers said President Yoweri Museveni pledged to increase their salary from Shs130, 000 to 200, 000 effective this financial year, but nothing has been done.

Uganda

Nigeria: Nigeria to Assist Rwanda in Education

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Aug 12, 2004

Federal Government has promised to assist Rwanda rebuild its war-torn educational sector. This assurance was contained in the Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) signed between Nigeria and Rwanda. The Rwandan Minister of Education, Sciences, Technology and Scientific Research, Prof. Romain Murenzi, who is on a week-long visit to Nigeria during a courtesy visit to the Minister of Education, Professor Fabian Osuji, requested Nigeria's assistance to increase access, expansion and quality of educati...read more

Rwanda

Sudan: Program Manager

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Aug 12, 2004

CHF International

The Program Manager will be responsible for assisting in the rapid expansion of CHF's program by contributing to its design and implementation. Other duties will include the production of regular progress reports and the management of the daily operations of the organisation's new office.

Kenya: Co-ordinator

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Aug 12, 2004

Africa Democracy Forum

The ADF is seeking a full-time co-ordinator to help facilitate networking efforts among African democracy activists. The position's duties will include the development of a database of ADF members and the organising of meetings and training programs.

Kenya

South Africa: Senior Researcher

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Aug 12, 2004

CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, the Secretariat of the World Bank Civil Society Joint Facilitation Committee (JFC), is seeking a Senior Researcher to produce proposals on how engagement between civil society and the World Bank could be more transparent and relevant.

South Africa

Art for Humanity call for proposals

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Aug 12, 2004

Art for Humanity (AfH) is issuing a call for partners for its upcoming project 'Women Artists and Poets Advocating Children's Rights'. The mission of AfH is to awaken society at large to a sense of moral and social responsibility for Human Rights through an innovative use of visual arts. AfH's proposed project, 'Women Artists and Poets advocating Children's Rights' is in essence about inspiring moral responsibility of children's rights through the art works created by female visual artists an...read more

Kenya: Senior Education Specialist

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Aug 12, 2004

International Rescue Committee

The Senior Education Specialist is responsible for managing all aspects of IRC's multi-country education program, which seeks to expand access to quality basic education and to strengthen civil society and government capacity to address the education needs of vulnerable groups of children, including those affected by HIV/AIDS.

Kenya

Angola: Country Director

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Aug 12, 2004

GOAL

The Country Director is responsible for the management and ongoing development/extension of GOAL's work within Angola. Amongst other areas, this work includes providing assistance in the post conflict reconstruction and in the return of IDPs and refugees to their areas of origin.

Angola

Africa: The Tragedy of Africa's Education

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Aug 12, 2004

Throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than half of primary-school age children go to school; enrolment in secondary school in 22 countries is below 20%; and less than 10% of the workforce has matriculated. Please circle one of the following: These conditions ensure: a) present and future economic competitiveness; b) strong participatory democracy and nation building; c) an end to mass poverty; d) none of the above. The answer is as obvious as the statistics are alarming. Education ought to li...read more

Namibia: Government paper goes daily

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Aug 12, 2004

The Namibian Government’s bi-weekly New Era newspaper went daily on Monday, August 2 2004, amid questions about its financial viability and the possible burden on the taxpayer. The Chief Executive Officer of the New Era Publication Corporation, Protasius Ndauendapo, said that while the company expected its costs to escalate "the bottom line is that by going daily we will be making a profit".

Namibia

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