COncern is seeking applicants to manage the implementation of Concern Kenya's programme in line with its Country Strategic Plan (2012-1016) and its programme strategies maintaining and strengthening focus on community empowerment, system strengthening and emergency preparedness.
Jobs and Announcements
Call for applicants: Assistant Country Director Programmes, Nairobi
Closing Date: Friday, 10 January 2014
Call for papers: Critical perspectives on BRICS
Call closes 4 January 2014
This call is fo articles about BRICS from a critical perspective. There are many avenues for publishing about the BRICS from an optimistic, uncritical standpoint, not least the BRICS governments’ own academic ‘think tank’ network and the mainstream media. But the authors of this call argue that social movements, labour organizations and other active citizens need analyses that advance the cause of justice, that do not suffer a failure of investigative nerve, and that fearlessly pose problems and alternatives. They seek contributions from all five countries as well as those that are in the immediate hinterland of BRICS. The articles will be published in mid-March 2014, in time for the Fortaleza BRICS Summit.
Contact: pbond@mail.ngo.za
Call for papers: How Public Health Can Meet the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
Call closes March 7 2014
An upcoming Special Issue on "How Public Health Can Meet the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century," will be published in the Public Health subject area of BioMed Research International in July 2014. A call for papers has been made for the Special Issue, which is open to both original research articles as well as review articles. BioMed Research International is an open access journal, which means that all published articles are made freely available online without a subscription, and authors retain the copyright of their work.
Call for Proposals 2014: Opening Frontiers to the Future
Call closes January 15th, 2014
Lend your voice to a continuing discussion that is helping to shape Africa's future. The inspiring contributions of our speakers are the key component behind eLearning Africa’s position as the most relevant networking event for practitioners and professionals working in ICT, education and training on the Continent. Whether you’re using a mobile app to engage young people with citizenship programmes, implementing state of the art technology to bring rural communities onto the grid and online, researching the impact of tablets in vocational learning, coordinating a local iHub to encourage home-grown innovation or lobbying government to prioritise ICT in national education policy, the eLearning Africa Conference audience wants to hear about it. they are are looking for the stories, experiences, research, thinking and expertise that make up the picture of ICT for development, education and training in Africa today, under the overall theme of Opening Frontiers to the Future.
Call for submissions on the theme of Browning the future
Call closes January 15 2014
What does post-westernness look like? What does it mean to be a cultural practitioner working outside the current imperial centres? What happens when water becomes more expensive than oil? How will south-south co-operation change things? What colour is the future? This call is for written submissions to “The State”, a media space for written and audiovisual communications, critical texts, interrogative narratives, images, manifestos and conversations. Send pitches or submissions of new work or pieces in English that have not yet been published in English, along with a brief bio, to submit@thestate.ae, by January 15th, 2014. Commissioned pieces will receive an honorarium.
Executive Director, Malawi project
Call for applicants
Partners In Health is seeking an Executive Director. They are looking for a strong leader who can develop the PIH platform of care in the district where we provide direct service, create innovative approaches that address burdens of disease and gaps in service delivery, partner with national and local Ministry officials, and build the programs into models of system-level global health delivery. For more information, please contact Jennifer Fitzpatrick.
Scholarships for KIT Masters programs and short courses
Deadline 4 February 2014
Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) Masters program inform that for a number of KIT courses there are scholarships available from the Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP). The courses are: Master in Public Health, Master in Public Health, track in Sexual and Reproductive Health; Master in Public Health, track in HIV and AIDS and E-learning short course: Health Systems Strengthening and HIV. Applicants must apply at KIT for admission to the course. Apply for the NFP Scholarship separately at Nuffic: Go for details on the scholarship and list of NFP countries to: www.nuffic.nl/nfp Application deadline: 4th of February 2014.
2013 Edition of the Zimbabwe Social Forum
Raylton Sports Club, Harare, 12-13th December 2013
The Zimbabwe Social Forum is a space dedicated to those struggling against, and directly challenging corporate fascism, neo-liberalism and market-led globalization. The Event will be held at the Raylton Sports Club in Harare under the theme “Our Resources, our Future!!!” Reclaiming the Social Movements Agenda for Social and Economic Justice. Participating Thematic Clusters are as follows: Gender and Women’s Rights; Debt and Trade; Students and Youths; Social Service Delivery; Labour; Media; Democracy and Rights; Natural Resources Governance; Health; Disability; Land, Environment and Climate Justice; Art s and Culture. Send enquiries to the email below.
Annual Helen Kanzira Lecture: The Power of Advocacy
Mr Stephen Lewis: Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria, 9 December 2013
This public lecture on ‘The Power of Advocacy’ will be presented by Mr Stephen Lewis, who will draw on his extensive international experience to illustrate the power of advocacy in the fight for social justice, reproductive rights, global health and gender equality. He is the co-founder and co-director of AIDS-Free World (www.aidsfreeworld.org), which is an international advocacy organisation that works to promote more urgent and more effective global responses to HIV/AIDS.
Conference on Rights of Women in Africa
Pretoria, South Africa, 9 - 10 December 2013
The Centre for Human Rights at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, is hosting an international conference to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa on 8 - 9 December 2013. Commemorating the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa: Exploring possibilities for promoting women’s sexual and reproductive rights. The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (also called the ‘Maputo Protocol’) was adopted in 2003 and entered into force in 2005. It has now been ratified by two-thirds of AU member states. One of the most important provisions of the Protocol is article 14, dealing with the health and reproductive rights of women. The conference will reflect on these and other innovative aspects of the Protocol.