Empirical Evidence for the Demographic and Socio-Economic Impact of AIDS

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Feb 06, 2003

This conference stems from the need for HIV/AIDS interventions to be based on sound information about the medium and long-term demographic, social and economic consequences of HIV/AIDS. Towards that end, the organisers have invited 50 researchers to present papers derived from rigorous empirical research.

Institutional Strengthening and Grant Management Program

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Feb 06, 2003

ISGM is a USAID program implemented by Pact and MWENGO. The program supports the strengthening of the capacity of Regional African Organisations-Consortia-Associations working in Food Security (FS) and/or Conflict, Mitigation and Response (CPMR) in the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) through promotion of innovation and increased strategic co-ordination. As part of the process towards the achievement of this objective and to fill in the gaps identified through organisational capacity assessments,...read more

ethiopia: Malnutrition Rates On the Increase

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Feb 06, 2003

Malnutrition rates in Ethiopia are gradually increasing despite widespread efforts to help millions of people facing starvation in the country, according to aid organisations.

Ethiopia

mozambique: Project Hopes to Boost Primary Education

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Feb 06, 2003

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) is to inject CA $20 million (about US $13.2 million) into a project to support education in Mozambique through the procurement of learning and teaching materials.

Mozambique

UGANDA: Northern children prevented from attending school

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Feb 06, 2003

Officials in the district of Lira, northern Uganda, have launched an appeal to finance 36 temporary "learning centres" for children displaced by insecurity caused by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group.

Uganda

MOZAMBIQUE: Floods, drought impact negatively on children

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Feb 06, 2003

Heavy flooding in 2000 and 2001 and a subsequent drought and food crisis have had an extraordinarily negative impact on children in Mozambique, Save the Children Fund (SCF) said in a new report.

Mozambique

Sierra Leone: Building a future for an African village

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Feb 06, 2003

When the author Aminatta Forna returned to Rogbonko, the village in Sierra Leone where her late father was born, she found a community too poor to educate its children. So she decided to found a school.

Sierra Leone

south africa: Mandela Park AEC opens school for the poor

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Feb 06, 2003

The Mandela Park Anti-Eviction Campaign, responding to issues raised in community meetings, has opened a school at Andile Nose Community Centre, in Govan Mbeki Road, Khayelitsha. This school is a response to the exclusion of students from government schools because they cannot afford school fees, or because they are too old.

South Africa

South Africa: New Schools for Transkei Thanks to Japan And Mandela

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Feb 06, 2003

A high-profile delegation from Japan will visit the former Transkei on Friday to mark the completion of 20 schools, thanks to R62m (7,5 million US dollars) in Japanese Grant Aid. Funding of R62m for a further 20 schools was then granted, mainly in the Umtata-area (Alfred Nzo district).

South Africa

Namibia: Church Responds to Challenge Posed By Aids Orphan Crisis

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Feb 06, 2003

The Aids Programme of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Namibia (ELCAP) donated school fees and uniforms worth N$15 000 to orphans and other vulnerable children in the Rehoboth area on Monday. The beneficiaries were identified through ELCAP's home-based care programmes.

Namibia

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