Duties include to promote and safeguard MSF's Identity and Principles and to take overall responsibility by co-ordinating the appropriate, effective and efficient management of the MSF operations in-country through the Country Management Team CMT in accordance with the MSF mandate and the MSF-CH Country Policy.

Africa is being actively encouraged to seek partnerships with international agencies, western capital and donor governments as a way of promoting economic growth and improved governance, and enhancing living standards. The New Economic Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) is just one of a range of initiatives designed to help African states to 'engage constructively' with the global capitalist market place; for Africa to embrace and take an 'ownership stake' in various arrangements that tie the continent more closely to the economic and political liberalisation of capital. Such a stratagem is referred to as 'making globalisation work for the poor'. The organisers invite paper and/or panel proposals.

The Government has conceded to an acute shortage of teachers following the introduction of free primary education.

Sixteen out of Kenya’s 42 languages are at serious risk of disappearing, according to “Extinct and Endangered Languages”, a recent report by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).

Members of Parliament will on Tuesday start compiling a report on detainees allegedly tortured by state security agents. The agents allegedly use snakes and crocodiles to force confessions.

The United Nations Children’s Fund has launched the 2003 State of the World’s Children Report that focuses on the merits and necessities of child participation in all matters affecting them. The report was launched in Maseru, Lesotho. The report calls on adults ‘to seek out the perspectives and opinions of children and to take their viewpoints seriously, in order to help children and adolescents to develop the ability to participate in the world in a competent, authentic and meaningful way’.

The overall goal of OSISA’s education programme is to empower civil society to advocate for and participate in providing better access and quality of education with special emphasis on education programmes for the disadvantaged including orphans, disabled children, street children, abandoned and abused children, children living in conflict areas, and illiterate adults. Guiding Principles OSISA’s education programme will support interventions based on purpose and quality of education; inclusion and starting early.

Over 2,000 teachers are due to be been transferred in a massive shake-up of staff in secondary schools nationwide.
Some 400 teachers have already received transfer letters.

UNICEF has donated school supplies and recreational equipment for 5,000 pupils at the Ngokro School in Yamoussoukro. UNICEF plans to motivate the international community and donors to get them to contribute to the education sector and thus enable the children to enjoy one of their basic rights, the right to schooling.

One hundred and fifteen students of Junior and Senior Secondary Schools in the Kwahu-South District in the Eastern Region have benefited from the Sikkens Education Trust Fund.

Valentine's Day fever hit Hudson Park High School when grade nine "cupids" delivered hearts and roses to classes throughout the school - raising more than R4000 for charity.

The Egyptian government conducts mass arrest campaigns of children whose "crime" is that they are in need of protection, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.
Children in police custody face beatings, sexual abuse and extortion by police and adult criminal suspects, and police routinely deny them access to food, bedding and medical care.

About 60 percent of corruption in South Africa is uncovered by official processes, 18 percent by civil society and eight percent by the media, public service and administration minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Wednesday. According to the executive summary of a report on corruption in South Africa, released to the media by Fraser-Moleketi, whistle-blowing is crucial to the detection of fraud and corruption.

The Reform Agenda has called for immediate free secondary education for children from war-ravaged areas because their parents are unable to raise school fees. "Their parents are in the internally displaced people's camps, unable to cultivate crops or do anything to earn a livelihood to pay fees," Reform Agenda deputy secretary Louis Otika said.

The Ministry of Education (MOE) and UNICEF began a workshop this week to develop innovative strategies and an action plan to promote girls' education in five regions that have wide gender gaps and low girls' school enrolment rates.

Announcing a seminar series hosted jointly by the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) and the Graduate School of Public and Development Management (P&DM).

As night falls in Gabon's capital Libreville, 13-year-old Arthur Goma stakes his patch for scraping out an existence in a country torn apart by devastating wealth inequality. For the street children of Libreville, survival is a nocturnal struggle of begging and gangland battles in a west African country which was once considered as one of the richest in Africa.

Kibera is famous, not as a centre of learning, but as one of Africa's largest slums. The majority of Kibera dwellers have poor incomes and lack basic amenities such as toilets and clean water. But all is not gloom in the sprawling slum. A school in Kibera was last week hailed as a shining example of how children from poor communities can successfully access free primary school education.

Tanzania's first annual home-grown human rights report has highlighted continued abuses of police power, low levels of awareness about human rights, abuses of economic and cultural rights and the tabling of several constricting bills in parliament amongst its major concerns.

The purpose is to lead Oxfam GB's work in Sierra Leone by working with the Regional Management Centre and other organisations to bring about change through Oxfam's programme and influence.