Mozambique: Country Manager

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Mar 04, 2004

The Burnet Institute is the only Australia NGO that focuses exclusively on health. The Institute's Centre for International Health (CIH) has been supporting HIV prevention activities with a local organisation in Manica province since 2000. However, in 2004, this work will be significantly expanded through the design and implementation of a 5-year capacity building program that will seek to build the technical and institutional capacity of Mozambican organisations involved in the response to H...read more

Mozambique

South Africa: Vacancies at the TAC

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Mar 04, 2004

TAC invites applications for the following positions.
- Western Cape organiser - Based in Khayalitsha, Cape Town.
- Gauteng TP coordinator - Based in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.
- Provincial administrators (2) - Based in Nelspruit (Mpumalanga) and Elim (Limpopo).
The deadline for all positions is 5pm on Wednesday 10th March.

South Africa

Africa: Senior Program Officer

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Mar 04, 2004

Duties will include: manage projects, backstop and provide technical assistance for credit, housing finance and community development programs in locations in Africa; some international travel; assist in new program development, proposal writing, and drafting budgets.

KaReport newsletter

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Mar 04, 2004

The overall goal of the Disability Knowledge and Research Programme is better health and quality of life for poor people in developing countries. The first issue of The KaReport, the Programme's newsletter, includes a critical look at why disability matters to the development debate, along with case studies, useful resources and reports from events.

Botswana: Drop in girls' school enrolment highlighted

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Mar 04, 2004

Despite the fact that the Botswana government prides itself on gender equality in school enrolment, girls struggle against huge disadvantages to obtain an education. "The hardships the girl child had to face in the past are still endured today. It all starts at home in the morning when she wakes up to make sure that the house is swept and prepares food for the whole family [before going to school]," said Boipelo Semere, a member of the Girl Education Movement. According to the Ministry of Edu...read more

Botswana

Equatorial Guinea: $5.2 million investment aims at early achievement of millennium education goal

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Mar 04, 2004

UNDP and the Government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea will invest US$5.2 million over the next four years to train 2,000 teachers, 36 education advisors, and 45 school inspectors to implement an "Education for All" project. The aim is to have all children in the central African country attend and complete primary school before 2010, five years ahead of the deadline for achieving the second Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education. This will help the population of one million...read more

Equatorial Guinea

Post-doctoral fellowships: Centre for civil society, South Africa

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Mar 04, 2004

The Centre for Civil Society, based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, is offering two post-doctoral fellowships, as part of our commitment to promote new and innovative research on civil society. The post-doctoral fellowships are for a duration of one year, at R150 000 p.a. The successful applicants are expected to be based at the Centre and to participate in its activities.

South Africa

Sierra Leone: Teaching, training, treating

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Mar 04, 2004

From January 2000 – December 2003, 12 primary schools were de-wormed with a total of 3600 pupils and 430 adults in the Eastend Part of the city of Freetown.

Sierra Leone

Kenya: Lecturers Turn Down New Pay Plan

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Feb 26, 2004

Public university lecturers have rejected what appeared to be a final government salary offer. And they threatened a new class boycott as they called a national delegates conference next week to decide on the next move. Lecturers at individual universities have been asked by the national union officials to find ways to force the Government to meet their demands before the March 6 talks.

Kenya

Zambia: Lecturers hit the streets in wage row

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Feb 26, 2004

Lecturers at Zambia's biggest university will not teach this year unless their wages and allowances are increased, a union official said on Monday. Thomas Mabwe, acting president of the University of Zambia Lecturers and Researchers Union (Unzalaru), said lecturers would not take part in any academic activities when the university opens next week for the first semester of 2004.

Zambia

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