The main purpose of the job is to provide comprehensive media coverage of the work of the AIDS Consortium via its programme delivery, political issues and challenges, policy changes and process and examples of best practice achievements within the organisation.

Geneva Call is an international humanitarian organisation dedicated to engaging armed non-state actors (NSAs) to respect and to adhere to humanitarian norms, starting with the ban on antipersonnel (AP) mines. Visit their website for more details and to access their latest newsletter.

Two of Mango's most popular courses are being held in Cape Town, South Africa in August 2005:
? FM1: Practical Financial Management for NGOs: Getting the Basics Right. 
Monday 8 to Friday - 12 August March.
Cost GBP550.00
This 5-day course is aimed at senior managers and finance staff of local NGOs wishing to expand their knowledge and understanding of financial management and the role it plays in successful programme management.  The course provides a solid and practical introduction to financial management for NGOs.  It covers ‘the building blocks’ and tools of financial management:
- keeping and understanding accounts
- financial planning and budgeting
- internal control and audit
- financial reporting and monitoring.
? FM2: Strategic Financial Management for NGOs - Managing for Financial Sustainability.
Monday 15 to Wednesday 17 August 2005
Cost GBP400.00
This practical and challenging course is essential for any NGO manager concerned with the financial sustainability of their organisation.  It is an ideal follow-up to the FM1 course.  The key topics include:
- How financial sustainability is achieved in practice
- How to build a financing strategy, establish reserves and manage core costs.
- Practical techniques for assessing risk and planning for uncertainty.

Full course outlines and booking forms are available from Mango’s’ website at http://www.mango.org.uk/training/courseoutlines.asp or on request from the training team on [email protected], who will also be pleased to deal with all your booking enquiries. All Mango’s training courses are practical and participatory in style.  And because Mango is an NGO dedicated to improving financial management in the development sector, and all our facilitators have practical field experience, our courses are highly relevant to the NGO world.  Due to the generous financial support of the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) in the UK, we are able to offer a limited number of bursaries towards the course fee, for poorly resourced small NGOs (priority is given to NGOs based in Zambia, Botswana and the Seychelles.) Please note that the bursary is not available to cover the cost of travel or accommodation.

The Programme Assistant will play an important role in ABGREMO's developmental efforts, in the very challenging Humanitarian services. The incumbent should have experience and be willing to be working in a team effort/office environment and be comfortable with technology. A strong international perspective, comfort with a variety of people and ability to multi-task is also important. This position is ideal for a creative, detail- oriented, high energy team player.

Established in 1988, the Reebok Human Rights Award provides recognition and financial support to young people from the United States and around the world who have made significant contributions to the cause of human rights, often against great odds. A $50,000 grant is given to further the work of each award recipient.

At least 13 people were reported killed in renewed inter-clan fighting in Hobyo district, Mudug region of central Somalia, sources told IRIN. At least 30 others were reported wounded, the sources added.

The World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) is an international competition for youth-led projects that encourage the active participation of young people in the emerging Information Society. It is the first global “YOUTH FOR YOUTH” initiative for selecting and promoting best practice in e-content and technological creativity, demonstrating young people’s potential to create digital opportunities.

"Africa Meets Africa" is a progressive hour long, weekly radio magazine that showcases the diversity and resources of the continent of Africa and its Diaspora. We feature African people, culture, arts, talent. We examine political, social, and economic concerns, as well as technology, environmental, women and other issues that shape and change the continent and its people. AMA showcases the richness, the power, as well as the challenges and struggle that Africans and people of African descent face globally. Africa Meets Africa’s mission is to help transform and renew Africa’s image for its true identity has historically been concealed and damaged by the forces that seek to re-colonize and destroy its people, while sequestering its natural resources. Our goal is to inspire our listeners to "think" and empower them to "act" on behalf of the birth of a new Africa. We endeavor to enlighten and raise consciousness, to build bridges that will unite all of Africa.

The successful candidate will be an experienced manager who has previously served in the non-profit sector with a solid track record in fundraising, and is currently seeking a job in which the only dividends that count, are the achievements of your team and the challenge of creating miracles with a limited budget.

The Agfund International Prize for pioneering development projects is awarded annually by the Arab Gulf Programme for United Nations Development Organizations (AGFUND). The prize honors projects in developing countries that work to alleviate human suffering and pain. Pioneering projects implemented by international or regional organizations, nongovernmental organizations, or individuals are eligible for nominations. The nomination deadline is April 30, 2005.

FEMNET is currently seeking applications for the following positions: Programme Manager; Advocacy Officer; and Translator. Please see job descriptions available through the link below. Applications are particularly invited from African women based on the continent. All three positions are regional positions and are remunerated accordingly. All three positions require (re-)location to FEMNET's Regional Secretariat in Nairobi, Kenya.

IFES' role in the pre-election process will be to provide institutional support and advice to the National Elections Commission (NEC) of Liberia and other key institutions on preparations for the 2005 elections. Activities under this program are likely to include: purchase of election commodities, training of election administration staff, advising on the development of laws and procedures pertaining to elections, and education of voters and election stakeholders on the electoral process.

The experiences, practices and focus of the Ghanaian student movement make for a sad reflection, states this commentary on the website of the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. " The flame of student struggle which was set burning and handed down to successive generations of Ghanaian student leaders began dimming from the early 1990s, got worse in the late 1990s, and in the year 2005 I can state without fear of contradiction that this flame has finally gone off." In this context there is an urgent need for a radical change in the top-down organizational structure of the Ghanaian student movement as it exists today, the article concludes.

The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is pleased to announce the fourteenth competition under its Small Grants Programme for Thesis Writing. The grants are intended to contribute to the development of the social sciences in Africa and the strengthening of the research capacity of African universities through the funding of primary research conducted by post-graduate students and professionals.

UNESCO is inviting applications for the 2005 International Literacy Prizes, awarded in recognition of the services of institutions, organisations or individuals that have made outstanding contributions to the development of literacy and basic education. The theme for this year is ‘Literacy and Sustainable Development’. Bearing in mind the valuable roles women play in the creation of sustainable development and the disproportionately high number of illiterate women, governments and NGOs are requested to submit nominations on the theme of fostering sustainable development while at the same time building gender parity in literacy and basic education.

For the well-being of today's families and for future generations, how important is investment in education and other forms of human capital? This report analyzes the potential for investments in education - by individual households, by government, and by donor agencies - to reduce poverty in postwar Mozambique. It also explores the factors that influence the decision to send children to school, and how long children remain in school.

An ambitious plan to hire an average of 9,000 new teachers a year in Mozambique is expected to ease the workload of existing educators and improve the quality of education, a senior official told IRIN. "The teachers at the moment are overburdened," Telesfero de Jesus of the ministry of education said. Severe staff shortages meant many teachers had to teach two shifts.

Tanzania is losing some 2,880 teachers to HIV/AIDS every year, said Education Minister, Joseph Mungai. The majority of the country's 155,000 teachers, who comprise nearly 50 per cent of all government employees live in rural areas where access to condoms and anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs is limited.

Reporters sans frontières (RSF) has called for the release of cyber-dissident Abdel Razak Al Mansouri, whose arrest on 12 January 2005 has just been reported. He criticised the Libyan government on a United Kingdom (UK)-based website. There has been no word of him since his detention. "The authorities already control all the traditional media and now they are trying to gag the Internet, the last window on the outside world still accessible to Libyan citizens. This is a major blow for human rights activists who have found the Internet to be an effective tool for gathering and disseminating information," RSF said.

Leading scientists from Africa have called for the continent's universities to increase collaboration and become more independent from national governments. Speaking last week (22 March) in Nairobi, Kenya, at a meeting on infectious diseases, Gabriel Ogunmola, president of the Nigerian Academy of Science, said African universities were acting alone but that no single institution had what was needed to undertake cutting-edge science.