The HIV & AIDS Thematic Manager is responsible for coordinating the development and implementation of ACORD’s HIV & AIDS thematic work. S/he will provide technical support to ACORD country and Area Programmes across Africa in relation to HIV & AIDS work. S/he shall actively contribute to define strategies advancing HIV & AIDS work at Pan-African level through research, partnership, alliance building and advocacy initiatives. Closing date for completed applications is: June 19th 2009.

In line with its mandate of developing, promoting, consolidating, and disseminating the highest quality of research on and about Africa, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) will hold a Gender Symposium from November 23rd to 25th in Cairo, Egypt. The Gender Symposium is an annual event that provides a platform for gender-focused debates. The theme for the 2009 symposium is Gender and Sports in Africa’s Development.

GRAIN has launched a new website that offers the most comprehensive information tool on the global land grab for outsourced food production:
This new site is an improved version of the site initiated by GRAIN last year, which provides an open, up-to-date and easy to search library of over 800 articles, interviews and reports on farm land grabs around the world published since the outbreak of the food crisis in 2008.

The Alternative Information Development Centre (AIDC) is working in partnership with the National Community Radio forum (NCRF) to produce a quarterly Amandla! News Diary. The Diary aims to support community media projects in South Africa to set a progressive news agenda and plan for their current affairs programing/ editorial - supporting them to develop a practice of 'peoples media' rather than aping the commercial and public media (following their stories, angles, and sources).