When the Malawian government introduced a policy of free primary education in 1994, school enrolments soared from 1.9 million to about 3 million. This massive surge has placed severe constraints on the financing of the primary school system. How can Malawi deliver universal primary education? Where will it find the new teachers it needs?
A global environmental conference Friday hammered out guidelines to encourage big business to pay indigenous communities for the right to use native plants to make commercial drugs and cosmetics. Delegates from 166 countries adopted global guidelines at the end of a two-week U.N. sponsored conference designed to encourage leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to strike deals with countries where they use genetic resources.
EISA, an internationally recognised centre for policy, research, training and information dissemination on elections and democracy in SADC countries, is looking for an Executive Director.
