Ford Foundation International Fellows may choose to study in any academic discipline or field of study related to the Ford Foundation's three grant-making areas, which are: Asset Building and Community Development; Knowledge, Creativity, and Freedom; Peace and Social Justice.

The following Vacancy Announcements are currently open and crucial for the Court:
* Associate English Translator;
* Associate French Translator;
* Conference Interpreter - English;
* Conference Interpreter - French;
* English Linguist;
* English Reviser/Editor;
* French Linguist;
* French Reviser/Editor.
The ICC website provides more general information on the above-mentioned Vacancies.

A curator is sought to develop an interactive performance inspired by women's rights as part of an international NGO activity. The curator's role would be to develop and to creatively weave chosen pieces of art work into an original tableau of African multicultural/multilingual activist participatory edutainment.

This book presents a set of case studies that cover various dimensions of the research/poverty relationship, such as the role of gender and of dialogue with policy makers. And it presents empirical evidence from a wide range of contexts, involving different regions, agroecosystems, crops, and types of technologies.

Under the general guidance of the Chief, Planning and Communication, the successful candidate will be responsible for the design, management, execution, monitoring and evaluation of a behaviour change and social mobilization strategy in support of the country Programme Communication/Social Mobilisation activities for supporting Polio eradication, fast tracking of Girl’s Education and other programmes.

State authorities in Guinea have banned an issue of the weekly newspaper "Jeune Afrique l'Intelligent". According to the Media Foundation for West Africa-Guinea, court officials who carried out the seizure order on 10 December 2003 refused to give reasons for their action. The issue in question carried an article with the headline, "Witch-Hunt in Army", which is said to have displeased the Guinean authorities.

The Regional Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET) is seeking a dynamic and committed public health professional as a programme officer to support the work in EQUINET. EQUINET works on issues of equity in health in southern Africa and supports research, policy development and analysis, information dissemination, networking and advocacy through institutions across southern Africa.
The programme officer works closely with the programme manager, the co-ordinators of EQUINET’s theme work and the steering committee. The work involves:
- Reviewing and providing technical and administrative support to the research, publication and policy intervention work, within specific themes and across the network;
- Preparing calls for grants, meeting and conference announcements, briefings and reports;
- Implementation and reporting on network wide activities (skills workshops, training, student grants, cross cutting research and analysis, conferences, publications and policy intervention);
- Ensuring the production and dissemination of EQUINET publications;
- Organising and ensuring reporting on core EQUINET processes, including evaluation work, the steering committee meetings and the EQUINET conference;
- Presenting EQUINET work and analysis in policy platforms, networks and joint alliance work in the Southern African Development Community (SADC);
- Providing input to the EQUINET website, newsletter and data bases.

In December 2004, the PhD program of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP) and the Institut de Recherche pour le Development (IRD) will jointly host a colloquium under the title “State, NGO's and Production of Security Norms in the South”. The meeting will be held in Paris. The aims are to explore discourses on security as these are formulated by states, multilateral organisations and civil society; to examine the norms and values which inform both the theory and practice of security at the global and at the local levels; to scrutinise the everyday relations of power around the concept of security; and to understand the way in which security is practiced in a world of interdependence. We are calling for proposals for papers that deal with the widening, beyond its traditional military and diplomatic setting, of the idea of security in a globalized world; examine new ways of producing security norms; and help to draw different actors into the world of security in changing political and social conditions.

More than 600,000 children have been immunized against measles in the Liberian capital Monrovia and two nearby counties since peace returned to the country in August, UNICEF said last Thursday. The organisation said it aimed to complete coverage of Montserrado and Margibi counties, just to the north of Monrovia, by the end of this year.

The recent ZANU PF annual people’s conference in sleepy Masvingo town turned out to be a mere talk shop as had been widely expected, with ruling party officials ducking critical issues that have made Zimbabwe the focal point in the world. Apart from taking the regrettable step of hurriedly withdrawing Zimbabwe’s membership from the grouping of former British colonies - the Commonwealth - the lavish conference was void of substance despite the gloomy socio-economic situation that demands urgent action. With President Mugabe publicly declaring he was there to stay and his key ZANU PF stalwarts lacking new ideas on how to deal with pressing issues, the indaba degenerated into a sloganeering and war dance showcase.

Public school teachers in Mali began a two-day strike on Tuesday to press for better working conditions and higher salaries, paralysing the school system from nursery to university level, officials of the teacher's union said. Teachers in higher institutions of learning, including Mali's sole university, joined the strike barely two months after staging a similar strike.

The Conferences, Workshops and Cultural Initiative (CWCI) fund, a joint initiative of the National Treasury and the European Union in South Africa, is seeking proposals for conferences, workshops and cultural initiatives directly linked to the commemoration of "A Decade of Democracy in South Africa". The deadline for submission of proposals is Tuesday 27 January 2004 at 4pm.

“The Economic Development and Tourism Directorate of the City of Cape Town would like to announce the launch of its Donor Directory 2003/4, a publication aimed at supporting the fundraising activities of local NGOs and CBOs. In recognition of the important role that non-profit organisations play in our society, 4 000 copies of the Directory will be distributed free of charge to NGOs and CBOs.”

From Friday the 12th to the 15th of December, learners and youth representing hundreds of social movements, communities and progressive NGOs, will converge on Wits University for the Education Rights Youth Camp. This camp has been organised by the Education Rights Project (ERP), Khanya College and representatives from various community and youth groups. The youth camp comes at a time when campaigns around education have been taken up by various community organisations and social movements around the country.

The one-year course – MA Economic and Governmental Reform - is a unique Masters programme designed to prepare senior civil servants and rising political figures for leadership roles in government. The course includes a forensic examination of why reforms go well or go badly, and examines closely the conflicts that often arise between different types of economic & governmental reform, and within different types of government structures.

The Anti-Discrimination Unit and the Human Rights Education Team of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights are launching a pilot project that will fund, through small grants (max. US$ 5,000) projects aimed at promoting respect for diversity. It is hoped that this initiative will strengthen civil society and youth groups in their efforts to combat racial discrimination. The project will be implemented in collaboration with UNDP.

The Democracy in Africa Research Unit (DARU) at the Centre for Social Science Research (CSSR), University of Cape Town, is offering research fellowships to established scholars from universities and research institutes in Africa and around the world. Visiting Fellows will normally spend six to twelve months at UCT. They will be expected to build local research and analytical capacity, conduct systematic research, analyse data and present findings to CSSR seminars.

Orphaned HIV-positive children in South Africa will be able to access antiretroviral (ARV) treatment more easily after a High Court ruled that permission for such an intervention can now be granted by their caregivers.

A task force has been established to assist the rapidly increasing number of street children in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare. Among the organisations involved in the task force are UNICEF, the Harare city council, the department of social services, Zimbabwe Republic Police, and various NGOs.

After years of civil strife, the Central African Republic (CAR) has, since March 2003, lived through a period of relative calm. This has enabled the transitional government of Francois Bozize to plan a phased demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration (DDR) process targeting ex-rebel fighters and former government soldiers.