The Shuttleworth Foundation is currently calling for proposals of innovative and pilot educational projects. The call for proposals will focus on the following areas:
- Maths, science, technology and entrepreneurship in the General Education and Training (GET) phase; and
- Numeracy in the Foundation phase.

The Africa-America Institute invites applications for the International Fellowships Program of the Ford Foundation from South African resident citizens and residents. The International Fellowships Program will provide support for up to three years of full-time postgraduate study. The primary objective of the Fellowships Program is to provide opportunities for individuals and communities that lack systematic access to higher education. The Ford International recipients will be expected to use their education to redress historical patterns of injustice.

News24 reports that the National Lotteries Board has withdrawn funding for 21 North West NPOs after they failed to comply with conditions for awarding them Lottery grants. As part of the agreement, the applicants had to submit working agreements, quotations, building plans and proof of ownership of properties to the Board by 13 June of last year. All 21 organisations form part of a group that applied for grants through the National Welfare and Social Services Development Forum on a special dispensation as "partnership applications".

A month after schools were due to have resumed classes in the rebel-held north of Cote d’Ivoire, the overwhelming majority are still shut, with no teachers and very little in the way of teaching materials, education officials told IRIN. Most schools in the north closed after Cote d’Ivoire plunged into civil war 19 months ago leaving 300,000 pupils idle.

You will have a minimum of 3 years work experience with LNGOs in an advisory/support capacity and proven knowledge/experience of organisational development and capacity building within the NGO/CBO sector. Proven experience in training/facilitation methodologies and direct training ability and experience of liaison with a range of different organisations at a policy level are essential.

The purpose of the Fund is to provide a grant to an African non-governmental organisation, engaged in research and policy development on issues of priority to women. The fund is intended to recognise the work of an African organisation, and to provide flexible and reliable support for initiatives that might not otherwise receive funding from other sources.

The Centre for Civil Society, based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, is offering two post-doctoral fellowships, as part of our commitment to promote new and innovative research on civil society. The post-doctoral fellowships are for a duration of one year, at R150 000 p.a. The successful applicants are expected to be based at the Centre and to participate in its activities.

UNDP and the Government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea will invest US$5.2 million over the next four years to train 2,000 teachers, 36 education advisors, and 45 school inspectors to implement an "Education for All" project. The aim is to have all children in the central African country attend and complete primary school before 2010, five years ahead of the deadline for achieving the second Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education. This will help the population of one million people reach the over-arching goal of halving extreme poverty by 2015, since illiteracy is a major cause of poverty.

Despite the fact that the Botswana government prides itself on gender equality in school enrolment, girls struggle against huge disadvantages to obtain an education. "The hardships the girl child had to face in the past are still endured today. It all starts at home in the morning when she wakes up to make sure that the house is swept and prepares food for the whole family [before going to school]," said Boipelo Semere, a member of the Girl Education Movement. According to the Ministry of Education, there has been a dip in the enrolment of girls in primary schools from 50.7 percent in 1993 to 49.4 percent in 2003. Girl enrolment in secondary school has also fallen from 53.5 percent in 1993 to 51.9 percent in 2003.

The overall goal of the Disability Knowledge and Research Programme is better health and quality of life for poor people in developing countries. The first issue of The KaReport, the Programme's newsletter, includes a critical look at why disability matters to the development debate, along with case studies, useful resources and reports from events.

Duties will include: manage projects, backstop and provide technical assistance for credit, housing finance and community development programs in locations in Africa; some international travel; assist in new program development, proposal writing, and drafting budgets.

TAC invites applications for the following positions.
- Western Cape organiser - Based in Khayalitsha, Cape Town.
- Gauteng TP coordinator - Based in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.
- Provincial administrators (2) - Based in Nelspruit (Mpumalanga) and Elim (Limpopo).
The deadline for all positions is 5pm on Wednesday 10th March.

The Burnet Institute is the only Australia NGO that focuses exclusively on health. The Institute's Centre for International Health (CIH) has been supporting HIV prevention activities with a local organisation in Manica province since 2000. However, in 2004, this work will be significantly expanded through the design and implementation of a 5-year capacity building program that will seek to build the technical and institutional capacity of Mozambican organisations involved in the response to HIV in Manica.

Applications are invited for two posts in African Studies. One is the administrative secretary for African Studies within the Department of Area and Development Studies. The principal duties of the post include: administrative support for the management committee and the developing academic programme; administering the budget; and the dissemination of information (including website maintenance). The post is part-time, initially eight hours per week, commencing as soon as possible. The second is the secretary to the Rhodes Chair in Race Relations. The principal duties of the post are: to act as personal assistant to the Chair; be first point of contact for internal and external enquiries; administer budgets and related activities. The post is part-time at nine hours per week, commencing as soon as possible.

This paper looks at what the 'right to education' means in theory and practice, and outlines what a rights-based response to education in Africa would entail. It argues that although the concept of rights has become increasingly commonplace in the discourse of international development there is a massive gap between the language and practice of rights. This is starkly apparent in education, where the basic rights of millions of people are routinely violated, and particularly in Africa.

From January 2000 – December 2003, 12 primary schools were de-wormed with a total of 3600 pupils and 430 adults in the Eastend Part of the city of Freetown.

A report UNDP issued in Burkina Faso recently calls for ethical conduct by politicians, adequate resources, audits and other preventative measures, and separation of institutional powers to stem corruption. Entitled "Corruption and Human Development," the report calls the fight against corruption crucial to strengthening government integrity and transparency in the west African country, one of the world's poorest.

Lecturers at Zambia's biggest university will not teach this year unless their wages and allowances are increased, a union official said on Monday. Thomas Mabwe, acting president of the University of Zambia Lecturers and Researchers Union (Unzalaru), said lecturers would not take part in any academic activities when the university opens next week for the first semester of 2004.

Public university lecturers have rejected what appeared to be a final government salary offer. And they threatened a new class boycott as they called a national delegates conference next week to decide on the next move. Lecturers at individual universities have been asked by the national union officials to find ways to force the Government to meet their demands before the March 6 talks.

Schools in northern Ivory Coast have reopened for the first time since civil war erupted there two years ago. But fears remain that the schools will be hindered by a lack of teachers, many of whom fled when the fighting began.