Pact's Community REACH team is pleased to announce the release of Request for Applications (RFA) #02-A-1. Community REACH is a five-year, USAID funded program designed to facilitate the efficient flow of grant funds to organizations playing valuable roles in the fight against HIV/AIDS, including PVOs, regional and local NGOs, universities and faith-based organizations.

The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs will sponsor up to eight non-residential Fellows for the program year June 2002 - June 2003. Among the topics and areas eligible are: Human Rights; Environment; Conflict; Justice and the World Economy; and History and the Politics of Reconciliation.

Closing Date : 31 Jan 2002
Posted on : 19 Dec 2001

Salary: £27,346pa
Closing Date: 8 Feb 2002

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Reporting directly to the Board of Trustees, the incumbent is expected to provide strategic leadership, vision, guidance and direction in planning and execution of sustainable natural resources management and training programmes making linkages with stakeholders in Government, NGOs leading donor agencies as well as training institutions in Malawi and the SADC region.

The workshop will offer advanced training to operators of existing African Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who are participants in the process of developing and enhancing a national Internet with regional and international connectivity.

Six out of every 10 Kenyans who are shot dead are victims of police, says a new report. But the statistic rises dramatically in 2001, when police shot dead nine out of every 10 victims.

Amnesty International has expressed concern about "consistent reports of restrictions to freedom of expression and assembly, violence against members of political parties, inhuman and cruel prison conditions, and widespread impunity" in Togo.

UNICEF, the UN Children's Fund, has appealed for US $18 million to fund its projects in war-wracked Angola, much of which it hopes to spend on reducing the country's appalling child mortality rate.

Frehiwot Eshetu appears like any ordinary daughter. As a 13-year-old she helps her mother clean around their small, mud-walled home and looks after her youngest brother Tariq. Yet a year ago she was living on the streets with prostitutes, her friends were using drugs, sniffing benzene and begging. Surviving on scraps from garbage she soon became sick, her stomach infested with worms and her skin and hair riddled with lice. But Frehiwot is lucky. She is described as a success story – plucked from the streets of Addis Ababa and re-united with her family.

The Rural Development Services Network (RDSN), a leading NGO network focusing on rural development, is seeking to employ a research co-ordinator.

An audit of funds collected by public primary schools was ordered by the President yesterday as debate raged over whether or not pupils should pay school fees. The audit, to be carried out by the Education Ministry, will lay bare how schools spend money collected from parents.

Gender Links, a Johannesburg-based NGO specialising in gender and the media in Southern Africa, is seeking a suitably qualified programme officer for an initial one year contract.

Organisation KwaZulu Natal Progressive Primary Health Care is a non-profit organisation requiring the services of a financial manager.

The National Clearing House on Youth Employment (NCYE) urgently needs to employ a Project Director to co-ordinate the implementation,
management and sustainability efforts of the project.