Perform the duties of CEO of a small, relatively new NGO. Managing a coexistence center that has been established in Uganda and develop a network of similar centers in Africa and elsewhere. Responsible for all fiscal and administrative management of the organization.

The overall responsibilities will be to provide efficient and effective leadership in the development, co-ordination and control of CAFS activities to meet its obligations as negotiated between donor agencies, regional governments and other stakeholders.

Will provide technical assistance to the Relief Program Director in the design, funding, implementation, evaluation, and reporting for all relief and rehabilitation programs in the country of assignment, in collaboration with Relief and Rehabilitation specialist staff.

The IFES-Nigeria project involves developing and conducting a variety of capacity building programs for the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria in its preparation for the April 2003 State and Federal Elections.

The incumbent will research and collect information pertaining to human rights matters from a variety of data sources; keep abreast of issues/events and provide up-to-date information; assist in the analysis of information, to include the impact on the countries and thematic mandates on the human rights situation in assigned area.

NDI seeks a resident director to manage and develop its program in Burundi. The goal of the anticipated 12-month program is to strengthen the capacity of Burundi's transitional legislature, in particular its ability to implement key provisions of the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement (APRA).

The authorities in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland have issued orders banning two local correspondents from reporting to the BBC's Somali service, a senior official in the region's commercial capital, Bosaso, told IRIN on Monday.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has released a report on the challenges facing journalists in Sierre Leone. Journalists, says the report, have begun to address problems of corruption in the media and other unethical practices that undermined press credibility.

A top director in the KwaZulu-Natal Education Department has been reinstated to his plum R375 000-a-year job - despite being found guilty in an internal inquiry of mismanaging more than R2.5-million of taxpayers' money.

The UN children's agency UNICEF and the Mozambican government are set to sign a US $86 million cooperation agreement aimed at fundamentally improving the living conditions and prospects of children in the country, UNICEF said in a statement released on Monday.

There is tentative evidence that the high-risk sexual behaviour of teenagers, which has been driving SA's high rate of HIV infection, is changing as a result of awareness campaigns, LoveLife CEO David Harrison says.

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The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and Bioethics Institute, in collaboration with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Clinical Bioethics, are pleased to announce the availability of a one year training program in research ethics for scientists from sub-Saharan Africa.

NANGO is organising an NGO Expo to be held in October 2002. The theme of the Expo is “Towards a Better Understanding of the Work of NGOs in Zimbabwe”. NANGO believes that it is important for NGOs to come out in the open and allow the general public, government, private sector and the international community to see for themselves what NGOs are doing, capable of doing and who they represent.

Children as young as ten years now collect the meagre rations of maize, beans and cooking oil handed out by aid agencies in Swaziland. The youngsters have become the heads of their families since their parents have either died of HIV/Aids, or are extremely ill with the virus.

Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) should go beyond creating awareness and publicising information to building coalitions across the socio-political sectors and developing action plans in order to breathe new life into the crusade against corruption.

Corruption generating conditions peculiar to the region include but are not limited to the digital divide and poor information exchange, capacity constraints and technical challenges associated with generating demand for accountability in the midst of poverty and limited literacy, north-south dependency, repressive political environments, lack of credibility in international engagements and transparency inhibiting legal regimes, says a position paper on the Independent Anti Corruption Commission.

Liberia's government said last Thursday it had recaptured the northern town of Voinjama, which rebels of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) had been using as a field headquarters. The town, which is the capital of Lofa County, is 270 km north of the capital, Monrovia.

High adult mortality has resulted in the delay of the enrolement of children in primary school in parts of Tanzania, a new study has found.

Lerato Nkosi, 11, is desperate to go to school. At any opportunity she gets to dodge her mother's protective gaze the lanky girl joins her boisterous peers on their walk to Vulamasango Primary School in KaNyamazane, Mpumalanga. Nkosi is learning disabled and like 82% of mentally or physically disabled children in Mpumalanga is denied an education because of teacher's indifference or lack of facilities at government schools.