Announcing a new international funding scheme from the Wellcome Trust. To add value to its wide range of international scientific activities, the Wellcome Trust is now providing support for public engagement with health research in developing countries. The International Engagement Awards aim to strengthen the capacity of researchers and communicators in developing countries to facilitate public engagement with health research. From debate about access to treatment to concern around informed consent, health research raises big questions on local, national and global levels. The scheme is open to a wide range of applicants including media professionals, educators, science communicators, health professionals and researchers in bioscience, health, bioethics and history. Partnership projects are also welcomed. Most project activity is expected to take place in developing countries, although partnerships can include individuals based in the UK working with partners based in developing countries. The first deadline for applications is 25 April 2008.
Jobs and Announcements
The HIV Collaborative Fund - a partnership of the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) and Tides Center - is seeking applicants to serve as Project Manager for the four funding regions in Africa. The Project Manager provider guidance and oversight to the ITPC/Collaborative Fund Regional Coordinators. This position would be a full-time one. Because of difficulties in putting someone on staff from Africa at US-based Tides Center, this position will either be created as a consultancy or through a contract at an existing organisation in Africa at which the Project Manager would be based. The location of the position would depend on the needs of the person hired and/or the organisation at which the position is based. However, because the job requires significant amounts of travel throughout the continent, the position will most likely be based in either Nairobi or Johannesburg. People living with HIV are encouraged to apply.
Following a very high demand for the workshop run in October 2007, the overseas Development Institute is pleased to announce the 2nd UK workshop on Outcome Mapping (OM) in London in February 2008. Being a 3-day introduction to the basic principles of Outcome Mapping, the emphasis lies in their application to the planning phase of development projects and programmes. It also includes a 1-day OM Surgery to explore ways in which OM concepts and tools can be practically applied within the participants' ongoing projects and programmes. The course fee is £600; which includes lunches and refreshments during the course. To maximize participation and instructional quality, the limit to the number of participants is 24 per workshop. We do this on a first come, first served basis so, to avoid disappointment, register early.
The East, Central and Southern African College of Nursing invites you to submit abstract for consideration to be presented at the Biennial scientific Conference to be held in Zimbabwe from 11th to 13th August 2008. The main theme is: “Transforming Nursing and Midwifery in ECSA: Visions for the Future”; with a number of interesting sub-themes. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 March 2008.
The Treatment Monitoring & Advocacy Project (TMAP) is seeking applications for country teams to participate in a research project on civil society engagement in Global Fund Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs). The project is funded by the Open Society Institute, Aids Fonds, and ICASO. Applications are DUE BY 14 JANUARY, 2008 and should be emailed to matilda.moyo@gmail.com and ChrisCSF@aol.com.
A call is now made for submission of abstracts for presentation during the First Global Forum on Human Resources for Health. The abstracts should present experiences, lessons learnt and/or other intriguing new information that contribute to the achievement of the forum objectives and should be developed under any of the following Forum Themes: Leadership; Education, Training and Skill mix; Migration and Retention; Financing; Management; Partnerships and linking up for action. Abstracts should be submitted to the Forum Organizing Committee (FOC) via email by 31 December 2007.
Eastern Africa Treatment Access Movement (EATAM) in collaboration with the Collaborative Fund for HIV/AIDS Treatment Preparedness calls for submission of proposals from organizations seeking funding for community-based HIV treatments preparedness programs. Grants will be allocated to successful applications for a period of up to one year to a maximum amount of 10, 000 US dollars per application.
Interested in access to medicines? Interested in governance, transparency and accountability processes? If the answer to either of those questions is yes, and you are working in a civil society organisation in Ghana, Uganda or Tanzania, an upcoming workshop in Entebbe, Uganda in February 2008 may be of interest. The workshop is the first step in a two-year programme of civil society capacity strengthening as part of the work of the international Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA). MeTA aims to use a multi-stakeholder approach towards increasing transparency around the regulation, selection, procurement, sale, distribution and use of medicines in developing countries, thereby strengthening governance, encouraging responsible business practices and ultimately improving access to medicines, especially for the poor. Send the completed form and motivational letter to metacso@healthlink.org.uk by 17.00 GMT on 15 January 2008.
The Global Health Workforce Alliance is to convene the first ever Global Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala, Uganda from 2-7 March, 2008. The Forum will be attended by up to 1000 participants, including government leaders, eminent health, development, civil society, academic and health professional leaders from around the world. This Forum will provide an extraordinary platform for sharing and exploring solutions, consensus and capacity building, and will further galvanise a global movement that is emerging as a response to the increasingly pertinent human resources for health (HRH) crisis. The deadline for registration is 31 January 2008.
Action Health Incorporated, under the auspices of the African Federation for Sexual Health and Rights, is pleased to announce the third regional conference on Sexual Health and Rights, 4-7 February 2008. The conference seeks to bring together key actors in the field of Sexual Health and Rights to explore how sexuality has affected and can improve development in Africa, especially when working with women and youth. Participants, speakers, and sponsors are expected from the media, academia, civil society organizations, government agencies, development partners, faith based organizations, regional and sub-regional bodies in Africa and international agencies. The goal of the conference is to examine the interrelationships between poverty and sexuality and also how the issue of accountability affects sexual health and social well-being in Africa.