The Chronic Poverty Research Center's latest report examines what chronic poverty is and why it matters, who the chronically poor are, where they live, what causes poverty to be persistent and what should be done. A section of regional perspectives looks at the experience of chronic poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, transitional countries and China. The report argues that the chronically poor need targeted support, social assistance and social protection.

The U.N. Security Council should take immediate steps to protect civilians in Darfur and impose sanctions on Sudanese officials as well as government-backed militias, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Security Council members ahead of a resolution on the crisis in Sudan’s western Darfur region. A draft resolution proposed by the United States considers the situation in Darfur to be a threat to international peace and security under Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter. The text calls on the Sudanese government to disarm the Janjaweed militias it has armed and supported. It also imposes travel and arms sanctions on members of the Janjaweed, but fails to extend these sanctions to the government officials backing these militias.

Centre for Domestic Violence Prevention (CEDOVIP)

This position is open to male candidates only. The holders responsibilities will include the design, implementation and monitoring of the organisation's new program focused on men and domestic violence.

Centre for Domestic Violence Prevention (CEDOVIP)

The Officer will be responsible, amongst other duties, for the design and implementation of all capacity building activities, the training of trainers courses and for working closely with stakeholders in the community to address the issue of domestic violence.

World Vision

The grant manager will be responsible for all accounting and budgetary functions for World Vision's grants. The position holder must ensure procedures conform with World Vision International reporting requirements and the compliance standards required by each donor/government/regulatory agency.

Isolezwe, a Zulu-language newspaper, has launched online at http://www.isolezwe.co.za/. Readers can try out the new site by signing up for a one-month free subscription to the website. The new website is the world's first Zulu news site and aims to target the emerging, urban-based, aspirational and knowledgeable Zulu market. The website will mirror the print version in terms of content. Initially, online content will be available free to view as an incentive to encourage online user. Ultimately the site will be subscription-based.

The Sustainability Institute (University of Stellenbosch) and Sustainable Energy Africa (SEA) are offering an intensive 6-day accredited course on Sustainable Energy Planning - For Cities in September this year. This course can form part of the Masters Programme in Development Planning and Sustainable Development or it can be attended on its own as an Executive Course in the School of Public Management and Planning's Programme in Sustainable Development.

Africarecruit was launched in 1999 under findajobinafrica.com to target Africans in the Diaspora wishing to find employment on the African Continent and those Africans within Africa keen to work in another African Country. A selection of the positions it is currently advertising are below. In addition, it provides a meeting point for jobseekers and employers, African government’s, NEPAD officials, and members of the African Diaspora to discuss employment issues and to help address the challenge of the African Continent's brain drain.

Women'sNet, a non-profit women's organisation based in Johannesburg, is hosting a SADC regional workshop to build awareness of and the potential use of Free and Open Source Solutions (FOSS) in the non-profit sector, and women's organisations specifically. The workshop itself will be held in Johannesburg, and is scheduled for 6-10 September 2004.

The ForeignAID.com International Donor Directory Online features 700+ donors in the U.S., Europe, and abroad actively involved in grantmaking for international programs.

Do you have an innovative or entrepreneurial idea for a partnership project that may contribute to sustainable development? A new concept that brings together people and organisations from different backgrounds? A project that enables partners to pool their human and financial resources, experience, local knowledge and connections? That allows partners to meet goals they could not reach working by themselves? A new initiative is ready to help you implement your ideas and make them a success. The Seed Initiative (Supporting Entrepreneurs for Environment and Development) is a joint effort by a network of international organisations - from global organisations such as IUCN - The World Conservation Union, UNEP and UNDP to national organisations such as Development Alternatives and LEAD Pakistan, who are passionate about promoting the entrepreneurial spirit of partnerships for sustainable development at grassroots level. They have launched the Seed Initiative to recognise new partnership approaches and encourage entrepreneurs to take action for environment and development.

Education and training are fundamental prerequisites for development. The idea therefore is to provide the youth with basic IT and entrepreneaurship knowledge, and above all the practical application which would thus help them directly in living their own lives in Africa. The Progressive Educational Fund (PEF), provides support for up to three years of formal graduate-level study.

Close to five million South African school children rely on state-sponsored meals as high unemployment and the HIV/AIDS pandemic take their toll on families. Out of 12 million learners, 4.6 million children at about 17,000 schools across the country were receiving meals, the director of school nutrition, Cynthia Mpathi, told IRIN on Friday.

The education sector in Kenya is being threatened by the AIDS pandemic, according to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). Speaking at a local school, the assistant Minister of Education, Peter Odoyo, said the commission was losing many teachers to HIV/AIDS, which was undermining the sector's efforts and jeopardising the survival of the TSC. Odoyo commented that in one district alone, 100 teachers and 450 students died every year from HIV/AIDS.

Low levels of formal education and lack of workplace training are to blame for the spiralling unemployment rate among Namibia's youth, a new study has found. Young people accounted for 60 percent of the unemployed, according to research conducted by the Labour Resource and Research Institute (LaRRI). The 2002/03 survey of the country's labour market put overall joblessness at 34 percent, with young people under the age of 25 most affected.

Malian children miss out on school because their parents can't afford the fees, uniforms, books and pens so the government launched a sponsorship scheme this month, recruiting businessmen and even footballers to help impoverished children get an education. Officials say the cost of putting a child through school is about 25,000 CFA (US$ 46) a year - which makes life difficult for parents in a country where around 70 percent of the population lives on less than a dollar a day and women have an average of around seven children each, according to the World Bank.

The Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net) have launched three new online 'spotlights' on the ethics of medical research, dealing specifically with the topics of guidance and regulation, capacity building and ethical review committees. The spotlights provide an overview of the issues in relation to developing countries through policy briefs, relevant excerpts from international guidance, summaries of key reports and opinion pieces.
Please go to:
Guidance and regulation: http://www.scidev.net/ethics/guidance
Capacity building: http://www.scidev.net/ethics/capacity
Ethical review: http://www.scidev.net/ethics/review

The Program Officer will be responsible for the conceptualization and management of the Foundation's program activities in South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. S/he will be expected to support efforts to address higher education's role in a rapidly changing environment. Programming will focus on helping higher education institutions broaden their missions, in particular in building the capacity of higher education institutions to be relevant and responsive to the social and economic needs in Southern Africa.

Volunteers from all over the world are helping organizations that serve communities in developing countries - but without leaving their own communities. These online volunteers translate documents, write articles, research data, build web sites, mentor young people, design logos, and engage in many other projects to benefit organizations serving people in the developing world. Visit the website for more information.

The Urgent Action Fund is committed to a vision of human rights that is fully inclusive of the experiences and perspectives of women and girls. The Fund is both a grantmaker and an initiator of programs, engaging in a range of activities to equip women’s human rights activists with the resources necessary to respond to emerging conflict or crisis.