The Social Change Assistance Trust (Scat) is a Cape Town based, independent funding and development organisation. Our aim is to empower the rural poor, to strengthen civil society and promote social change. We do this by supporting local agencies working for development in rural communities. We work in partnership with those whom we fund by offering support in organisational development and capacity building. Contact Miriam du Toit at Scat - telephone (021) 418 2575 or

The Africa regional workshop at the 10th International Anti Corruption Conference (IACC) in Prague is jointly organised by Transparency International, UNDP, Global Coalition for Africa (GCA), USAID and DfID (UK). It aims to provide a venue to discuss concrete steps to forge regional co-operation and action in Africa. The workshop will aim to present the current regional and sub-regional mechanisms (informal or formal) and actions that focus on fighting corruption in Africa, provide a forum to evaluate lessons learned from past initiatives as well as recommend concrete measures to improve effectiveness in implementing these on the ground.

The Foundation Center's mission is to support and improve institutional philanthropy by promoting public understanding of the field and helping grantseekers succeed.

The United Nations made a new bid for relevance with its recent Special Session on AIDS, but the trend of neglect by the press that Danny Schechter spotted last year hasn't disappeared.

When it comes to the selection of courses for your children, let their teachers guide you. They have the ability to judge the performance of students and help them select courses that would suit their individual needs, Ghana's top psychiatrist has advised parents.

Scores of absent educators in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province claim they have been intimidated by the community and do not feel safe in schools. However, they have been have been getting their salaries although some have
not been in a classroom since the beginning of the year.

A Japanese education grant to provide schooling for Tanzanian children forced to work due to poor economic conditions, has been lying idle for nearly a year now.

In a direct challenge to the world's pharmaceutical industry, the authors of a new UN report call on developing countries to strengthen their national laws in order to enable local production of cheaper, lifesaving AIDS drugs AIDS. Such an option can be pursued legitimately under compulsory licensing, a principle in international commerce that permits countries to "use patents without permission of the patent holder in return for a reasonable royalty on sale," says the Human Development Report 2001, released Tuesday by the UN Development Programme.

A team of children led by an 11-year-old foreman was found working on a Cape fruit farm - just one piece of evidence in an investigation that shows child labour is widespread in the region's farmland.

The MDC is contesting the outcome of last June’s parliamentary elections in many constituencies that resulted in the victory of the ZANU (PF) candidate. Human rights abuses have been reported in all cases that have appeared before the High Court. The violence, which has mainly implicated ZANU (PF) supporters, but has also implicated some MDC supporters, is being used as a tool to intimidate people who had testified at the High Court. The intimidation continues to instill such fear that witnesses consider not testifying and in some cases have to be subpoenaed.

Versions in English, Frangais, Espaqol, Deutsch. The report on the eLearning survey entitled 'eLearning for people with disabilities' is now available online in English, French, German and Spanish - in the ETV eLearning section.

A conference based on the theme "the communities commit themselves" - AIDS and STDs as a development problem, not just a health problem.

Political Science 675c is the University of Hawaii's graduate course on Nutrition Rights. The central purpose of the course is to study the working of human rights systems through close examination of the human right to food and nutrition.

Creative Associates International, Inc., known locally as CREA SA, has been contracted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to implement a program of grants management and technical assistance in support of the USAID Democracy and Governance
Program in South Africa.

Participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) is an approach involving a wide range of stakeholders such as local people, community organizations, NGOs, and development agencies deciding together about how to measure results and what actions should follow once this information has been collected and analysed.

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Applications are invited for the BMJ Publishing Group Scholarship, which will fund one editor from a developing country to come to the UK to attend the annual course for editors of peer reviewed medical journals. The course is run by Tim Albert Training. This year it will be held in Tunbridge Wells, England, on September 27-29. Full details about the course can be found on www.timalbert.co.uk

Further details on application available from Alex Williamson ([email protected]). Telephone: + 44 (0)20 7383 6069. Tim Albert Training, Paper Mews Court, 284 High Street, Dorking, Surrey RH4 1QT UK Tel: 01306 877993; Fax: 01306 877929 [email protected] Dates of 2001 open courses now available.

Applications are invited for the BMJ Publishing Group Scholarship, which will fund one editor from a developing country to come to the UK to attend the annual course on September 27-29 for editors of peer reviewed medical journals. The course is run by Tim Albert, a leading UK trainer in medical writing skills and health related journalism. His business, Tim Albert Training, has just completed its tenth year. Telephone: + 44 (0)20 7383 6069

Time constraints have forced the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Durban, venue of next month's World Conference on Racism, to ignore tender procedures for key contracts leading to the exclusion of emerging black entrepreneurs. However, black entrepreneurs have called the procedure racist, saying that the organisers have sidelined them in favour of established, mainly white-owned companies. They have now called for government intervention to ensure that they are given a fair share.

The issue of reparations has to be on the agenda of the Third United Nations World Conference on Racism in Durban later this year, Jubilee South Africa and other anti-debt movements insisted at the weekend.