The Country Director is required to have a master's degree in International Relations, Public Policy or related field with a minimum of five years of international management experience; or a bachelor's degree with a minimum of seven years of international management experience. Experience in Nigeria preferred – the Director should have excellent knowledge of Nigeria and a realistic view of the economic, social and political conditions in country, not only their effect on the development of reformed election systems, civil society and local governance issues, but also on practical daily living in the country.

ECPAT International, in cooperation with UNICEF, is organising a Regional Consultation on North Africa at the Hotel IBIS, in Rabat, Morocco, from 12-13th of June 2003. The agenda for the two day meeting covers aspects of commercial sexual exploitation of children in Chad, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia. In particular it will look at the sexual abuse of domestic workers, early marriages and child prostitution. The meeting will also consider how networking can help the implementation of the Stockholm Declaration and Agenda for Action, as well as the Declaration of the Arab-African Forum against sexual exploitation of children, adopted in Rabat on the 24-26 October 2001 (in preparation for the Yokohama Conference in December 2001).

The Khanya College Annual Winter School was launched in July 1999. The Winter School represents an important step in Khanya College's response to the changing political and economic environment within which social movements have to work. In many different ways Khanya College programmes seek to assist communities in the difficult task of developing their responses to globalisation and its various manifestations. The Annual Winter School provides the space for activists from various social movements to work together across different sectors and interests. This is an opportunity for activists from the different sectors to exchange views and share experiences. Winter School 2003 will focus on Nepad as an overall theme. Over the last two years social movements in all parts of the continent have expressed grave doubts about Nepad's ability to deliver on its promises. Many social movements have pointed out that Nepad is a Structural Adjustment Programme in the tradition of the Bretton Woods institutions.

In South Africa, where an estimated five million people are HIV-positive and 500,000 children have been orphaned because one or both of their parents have died of AIDS-related causes, "child-headed household" is an official census category, although no one knows how many such households exist. Without "radical changes," the number of AIDS orphans is expected to quadruple by 2015. Carol Dyantyi, who runs the Soweto-based Ikageng Itireleng AIDS Ministry, and a group of 15 volunteers care for more than 100 AIDS orphans who live in the sprawling township. The group, which operates on a monthly budget of less than $1,000, pays the children's electricity and telephone bills, provides them with money to attend school, gives them clothes and brings food to them when their shelves are bare, reports the Los Angelos Times.