Kenya: Going head-to-head: developing headteacher support groups in Kenya

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Dec 04, 2003

Kenyan primary schools are starting to equip themselves to promote gender equality, poverty alleviation and local economic growth. How can headteachers gain the necessary managerial and community liaison skills? Is a cascade system the best way to help them develop new expertise? What scope is there for learning from the bottom up to improve community-school partnerships?

Kenya

DRC: Programme Coordinator

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Nov 27, 2003

The applicant must have a BA in Community Development or equivalent as the main requirement, and have a driving license. He/She must also have experience of working in a humanitarian programme for not less than 3 years.

Democratic Republic of Congo

Liberia: Country Programme Manager

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Nov 27, 2003

We are looking for an outstanding individual to lead our programme in Liberia and to strengthen its impact and quality with a view to growing the scope of Oxfam's response even further.

Liberia

RWANDA: RESEARCHER

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Nov 27, 2003

This is a full-time appointment for an initial period of one year as of January 2004, with the possibility of extension. The researcher will be based in a field office in Kigali, Rwanda.

Rwanda

Call for Expression of Interest - South Africa

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Nov 27, 2003

The Parliamentary Millennium Project is designed as a nation-building intervention that will assist South Africans in recognizing how their diverse past experiences and the perspective resulting from those experiences have shaped their views of the present. The project is currently compiling a database of potential service providers for their media campaign and seeks expressions of interest from service providers who have commendable expertise in the following key areas: design and implementa...read more

South Africa

Africa Grants Programme: Comic Relief

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Nov 27, 2003

The Africa grants programme aims to tackle poverty and promote social justice across Africa. All the work Comic Relief funds is about supporting people to make lasting, positive changes in their lives and their communities. The programme will consider applications that target one of the following groups of people: people affected by conflict; women and girls; people living in towns and cities; disabled people; pastoralists and hunter-gatherers; people affected by HIV and AIDS. Applicants from...read more

RWANDA: Newspaper editor, others still in custody

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Nov 27, 2003

Rwandan police are holding the editor of a privately owned newspaper arrested on Wednesday near the Ugandan border, according to Reporters sans frontiers (RSF), a media watchdog in Paris. On Thursday, RSF reported that Robert Sebufilira, editor of Umuseso, was arrested as he went to collect 4,000 copies of the weekly printed in Uganda, where it is cheaper.

Rwanda

Kenya: school lunch is an education lifeline

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Nov 27, 2003

A daily lunch of boiled maize and beans, is not much of a meal to some, but across sub-Saharan Africa, it has become a lifeline for millions of vulnerable children. At a cost of just about nine US cents per child, such meals have proved nutritious to about 1.1 million children in Kenyan schools, improving their health and concentration.

Kenya

International Training of Facilitators

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Nov 27, 2003

The fourth annual International Training of Facilitators will be held over ten days in June 2004. Designed and delivered by the Institute of Cultural Affairs Ghana in conjunction with ICA:UK, the course is open to both beginners and experienced facilitators, and concentrates on introducing the principles and methods of the ICA's Technology of Participation, which has been used and developed worldwide over the past 35 years.

Uganda: Children in northern Uganda targeted by the Lord's Resistance Army

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Nov 27, 2003

Fear of abduction is leading anywhere from 12-15,000 children in Northern Uganda to migrate to locked shelters every night. The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is the reason these children walk up to two hours every night in order to sleep. The LRA has a long history of abducting children and looting personal property. Parents send their children into town for their own security while they stay at home to protect their property.

Uganda

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