Previously known as the African Institute for Agrarian Studies(AIAS), and renamed to SMAIAS in 2016 in honour of its late Founder and Executive Director, Professor Sam Moyo, the SMAIAS in Harare has been in operation for over thirteen years. The SMAIAS aims to enhance Africa’s agrarian transformation by promoting informed participation towards effective land and agrarian policies and reform, by means of Pan- African and South-South partnerships, interdisciplinary research initiatives, policy dialogues, training, and information dissemination. It interacts with various organisations and countries to assist them in developing capacity for policy formulation and research. It also facilitates policy dialogue among governments, academics, civil society and others on land and agrarian developments, especially on the land rights of marginalised social groups. Under the overall authority of the Board of Trustees and the direct supervision of the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees, the Executive Director will be expected to provide intellectual, administrative and strategic leadership to the secretariat of the SMAIAS. Only African citizens will be considered for this post.
Jobs and Announcements
Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa) seeks a Communications and Knowledge Management Programme Officer who will translate UAF-Africa’s strategic plans into effective social justice initiatives and results. Guided by feminist principles and values, the Fund advocates for gender equality, not only as a matter of human rights, but also as a fundamental prerequisite for social change, global security, and sustainable peace. In addition to her core business of Rapid Response Grant making, UAF-Africa also runs alliance building and advocacy initiatives in collaboration with other national, regional and international social justice organisations.
Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa), is a consciously feminist and women’s human rights pan- African Fund, registered in Nairobi, Kenya. UAF-Africa seeks a Partnerships & Development Manager who will translate UAF-Africa’s strategic plans into effective social justice initiatives and results. Guided by feminist principles and values, the Fund advocates for women’s equality, not only as a matter of human rights, but also as a fundamental prerequisite for social change, global security, and sustainable peace. In addition to her core business of Rapid Response Grant making, UAF-Africa also runs alliance building and advocacy initiatives in collaboration with other social justice organisations,
The decline in new HIV infections among adults has stalled. The UNAIDS Prevention gap report shows that worldwide an estimated 1.9 million adults have become infected with HIV every year for at least the past five years and that the number of new HIV infections is rising in some regions. The report shows that HIV prevention efforts must be reinvigorated if the world is to stay on the Fast-Track to ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030. In the lead-up to World AIDS Day 2016, the hands up for #HIVprevention campaign will explore different aspects of HIV prevention and how they relate to specific groups of people, such as adolescent girls and young women, key populations and people living with HIV. Starting in September 2016, the campaign will offer people a space to express their views on what they think needs to be done to strengthen HIV prevention efforts. UNAIDS is asking people around the world to submit: A photograph of a word or short phrase written on the palm of their hand summarising what is needed to strengthen HIV prevention efforts, for example more condoms, empowerment, inclusion, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), rights for women and girls. People may also submit a short video message (maximum 30 seconds) explaining what in their view needs to be done to reduce new HIV infections in their community.
The International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) and the Department of Health - Republic of South Africa are co-hosting the 2nd World Breastfeeding Conference in collaboration with WHO, UNICEF, WABA and gBICS partners in Johannesburg South Africa from 11th to 14th December 2016. The Conference will provide an opportunity to review the global investment promises for maternal, infant and young child nutrition in light of resolutions from the 65th WHA of 2012, and to generate ideas for further resource mobilisation and/or strengthening of interventions. In addition, the conference will provide an opportunity to broaden understanding barriers to breastfeeding including promotion of artificial feeding by manufacturers, unsupportive health facility practices, more working mothers, inadequate traditional support, among others and address breastfeeding in a human rights framework. Furthermore, the conference will raise awareness on progress so far made in improving breastfeeding rates, which has occurred at different speeds in many countries and raise awareness on a number of challenges to the promotion, protection and support of breastfeeding and other IYCF interventions due to the funding, structural, policy and political environment.
59th International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research & Practice(ICMRP) is to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of Science Technology and Management to a common forum. All the registered papers will be published by the World Research Library and will be submitted for review for indexing by Google Scholar etc. All submissions to the conference will be reviewed by at least two independent peers for technical merit and content. It is anticipated that a broad range of research and applied topics will be covered during the conference.
Makerere University College of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Uganda in partnership with Nottingham Trent University, UK and Ministry of Health, Uganda invites submissions of abstracts for the symposium on Community Health Workers (CHWs) and their contribution towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Sub themes include CHWs programmes (past, present and future), CHWs and health systems and the role of CHWs in the SDGs era. For further details on the symposium themes, the abstract format, dates for registration and the conference details see the website.
The Health Systems Cluster in Sierra Leone is recruiting a P3 Technical Officer to work on District Strengthening. This is an extremely exciting position and opportunity to become part of our small, but dynamic health systems strengthening cluster within the WHO Sierra Leone office. The deadline for applications is 10 November, and more information is available in the website. The WHO Country Office is also supporting Sierra Leone’s College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS) by helping to recruit a number of short-term faculty as found in other folders on the other current vacancies on the website.
Do you know of excellent health policy and systems research publications on human resources for health (HRH)? Health Systems Global at the University of Western Cape are looking for submissions for a reader that provides guidance on and examples of excellent HRH research within the broader rubric of people-centred health policy and systems research. Please see the blog post for more detail and submit your suggestions using the google sheet. Submit publication suggestions here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18B7QW5Xv-RLyiz0i-oxLigvtecJObhbyaW3lEffUXvI/edit#gid=0
Pambazuka News is preparing a special issue on the labour movement and the struggles for Africa's liberation today. Pambazuka News wishes to dedicate a Special Issue to the labour movement and the struggles for Africa's liberation today. Labour has a mission that goes beyond agitation for worker rights towards the bigger project of concrete self-determination of the African people through ownership of their resources and means of production, etc. Shaun Whittaker of the Marxist Study Group of Namibia and former member of the Workers' Organisation for Socialist Action (South Africa) is guest editor for the special issue. Authors are urged to write on their own countries and not generalize about the entire continent. They should try to only focus on one of the sub-themes or a related sub-theme. Articles should be up to 3, 000 words.