CIVICUS is currently recruiting a Project Administrator for the CSI, to be based at the head office in Johannesburg, South Africa. Reporting to the Project Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing the financial management of the project and providing overall administrative support to the CSI project, including fundraising, grant management, staff recruitment, staff induction, office management etc. S/he will work closely with the CSI Project Manager as well as othe...read more

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks a qualified candidate to serve as a Postdoctoral Fellow to work under Nigeria Strategy Support Program (NSSP) for a two-year, fixed-term, renewable appointment. The program has a focus on strategy and policy issues in relation to agriculture, the food system, gender relations, rural change, and poverty reduction. The position reports to the Director of the Development Strategy and Governance Division (DSGD) and is based in Abuja, ...read more

Raising Voices is a small international organization based in Kampala, Uganda. We are seeking a dynamic and a committed individual to join our team and be based in Uganda (at least for first year). Responsibilities include both coordination of the GBV Prevention Network and provision of technical support on violence prevention as senior program officer at Raising Voices. For more information please visit Deadline for applications in February 20th, 2007.

The vast majority of children and youth from the south have not received any formal schooling, and education indicators in Southern Sudan today are among the worst in the world. Formal education in the south was severely limited even before the most recent two decades of civil war.

For 2007, out of a total enrolment of 300,000, 94,000 Swazi children or nearly one-third of all schoolchildren from first grade to standard five will be assisted to stay in school. A network of community care points has expanded to over 300 in the past year, and government plans to keep orphans and vulnerable children at home and in their schools, in familiar surroundings during the time of parental loss.

The Africa Society and the Rhodes Scholars Southern Africa Forum at Oxford university has refused to allow Fahamu to sell copies of its new book ‘African Perspectives on China in Africa’ at a forthcoming seminar on China in Africa, despite a long established tradition of allowing booksellers to sell books at such events.

The organisers at St. Antony's College at Oxford University wrote to Fahamu to say that in their view the new book presents a monolithic, one sided view, and therefore...read more

Save the Children UK's south Sudan programme concentrates its efforts in two regions: Bahr el Ghazal and Upper Nile. In the context of south Sudan, making a reality of children's rights is achieved through an integrated programme of work in the thematic areas of food security and livelihoods, basic education, child protection and preventative health.

Creating Local Connections West Africa (CLC WA) aims to realize the potential of youth for improving their communities, countries, and region. CLC WA will achieve this through peer-led trainings, media creation, and strategic use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) during its implementation in: Sierra Leone Nigeria, Guinea, Cote d’Ivoire, and Liberia. The project will run over a 15 months period (February 2007-april 2008).

Primary school instructor Richard Morgan can no longer stroll between the rows of desks to teach in his classroom at the SIMS Community School. The boys and girls are crammed shoulder-to-shoulder in their blue and white uniforms as Morgan lectures from the front of the room.

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila is being urged to release human rights lawyer and former presidential candidate, Marie Therese Nlandu and her associates from prison. The calls come following Nlandu’s trial before a military tribunal in the DRC capital, Kinshasa, on Jan. 24, according to a report by Ambrose Musiyiwa.

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