AFRODAD is a regional organisation based in Harare. Its main goal is to undertake research and analysis and provide information on African Debt problems and contribute to finding sustainable solutions. Over the past two years, AFRODAD has embarked on an extensive institutional restructuring and expansion exercise. The organisation is now looking to recruit a dynamic, and committed individual to head the organisation and build its position as a key independent research, advocacy and information institution on the debt problem in Africa.

The Hesperian Foundation is looking for an Editorial Coordinator and Project Associate/Research Coordinator for an Environmental Health Book Project. The foundation is a nonprofit publisher of books and newsletters for community-based health care. Developed collaboratively with health workers and groups worldwide, our publications address the underlying social, political, and economic causes of poor health, and suggest ways groups can organize to improve health conditions in their communities.

The Church Community Leadershipt Trust (CCLT), requires the services of a helpful, hardworking SwitchboardOperator/ Receptionist.

The APC (Association for Progressive Communications) urgently needs to fill two challenging positions, Programme and Projects Manager/Deputy Director and Logistics Coordinator.

SANGONeT's Executive Director is raising funds for the organisation's training programmes by running the Comrades Marathon 2002. For more information on how to help develop South Africa by making a pledge, visit the SANGONeT website.

The R1,3 million high-technology IT centre was opened at the Fort Hare Institute of Governance. The Dutch – funded initiative will be used extensively in the training of civil servants.

The British High Commission in Ghana's has donated 65,000 pounds (about US $95,300) to two human rights projects under its Human Rights Project Fund. The funding is to be given to the Social Enterprise Development Foundation of West Africa (SEND), to implement a gender, human rights and peace education project. The project aims to address the livelihood insecurity of women and children through human rights and gender education and training.

A R1, 2million double-storey complex with eight new classrooms is to be built for a primary school in Ginsberg here. The AngloGold Fund, the social development arm of AngloGold, South Africa’s largest gold producer, funds the project for the Ginsberg Seventh Day Adventist Primary School.

This is the first call for applicants for Adilisha distance learning courses for human rights and advocacy organisations in southern Africa. Fahamu, in association with the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford, will be offering courses specifically designed to meet the needs of human rights and advocacy organisations in southern Africa. Developed together with international and regional experts, seven courses will be run in the course of the next 12 months.

A United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) study has revealed that millions of babies go unregistered at birth, denying them an official identity, a recognized name and a nationality. "A birth certificate is one of the most important pieces of paper a person will ever own," said Carol Bellamy, UNICEF Executive Director. "Unregistered children lack the most basic protection against abuse and exploitation and become a more attractive commodity to a child trafficker, illegal adoption rings, and others who seek to take advantage of their non-status," she said.

A United Nations report has highlighted the development and environmental problems facing farmers in Ethiopia. The report stresses the devastating impact of high debt and falling crop prices, while calling for a ban on making charcoal out of virgin forests to halt deforestation and massive soil erosion.

Bookings for the conference “The Impact of African Writing on World Literature” at the Baxter Theatre Hall in Cape Town on July 26-27 have opened and places are limited to a first-come-first-serve basis.

Technical training, the basis of industrial development to which the Government is committed, is reeling under such serious difficulties that unless something is done urgently, it may keel over altogether.

Hundreds of Kenyan slum and street children last Thursday thronged the National Stadium in Nairobi to take part in the finals of a month-long soccer tournament, as part of an initiative launched this year to combat drug abuse and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV/AIDS, among these high-risk youth.

IEARN, which joins 5,000 schools in 92 countries, will hold its ninth summit in Moscow on July 7. The meet will discuss the outcomes of its online project work and plans for the future.

The Malawi Censorship Board has ordered the removal of a controversial condom advertisement that it has declared offensive and pornographic.

UNICEF, the UN Children's Fund, has received just 24 percent of the funds needed to implement urgent projects for women and children in Burundi in 2002, requested as part of the UN Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal.

Despite initial denials that child soldiers are serving in the Burundi army, government and military leaders have now shown a new willingness to deal with the issue, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported on Monday.

During June, CREA South Africa, under a contract to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will issue a Request for Proposals to interested South African organizations for the award of firm fixed price contract for a period of twenty four months to undertake a Community Participation and Capacity Building for Effective Local Governance Project for the West Coast District Municipality. This project forms part of the USAID/DPLG Local Governance Support Program (LGSP).

During June, CREA South Africa, under a contract to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will issue a Request for Applications to interested South African organizations for the award of a cooperative grant agreement for a period of twenty months to undertake Capacity Building of Ward Committees and the Implementation of an Awareness Campaign on the new structures and systems of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Council.