The Southern & Eastern African Association for Farming Systems invites you to the 8th Regional SEAAFSR-E Conference: Challenges to the Farming Systems Approach: Past, Present and Future. ABSTRACTS BY 30 JUNE!

We are pleased to inform you that the Helsinki Committee in Poland and the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights are organizing the 12th International Summer School on Human Rights.

An Antonov bomber attack on Barurud in northwestern Bahr al-Ghazal on Wednesday narrowly missed a World Food Programme (WFP) aircraft about to make an emergency humanitarian food drop, WFP officials confirmed to IRIN on Friday. The Antonov could only have been a government of Sudan plane, according to informed sources.

Job Title: Assistant Coordinator Of Small Grants Programme; Location: Dakar (Senegal); Closing Date for Applications: 30th June 2001 Contact Details: UAPS President UAPS/UEPA Stele Mermoz Route de Pyrotechnie x Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop BP 21007 Dakar/Ponty Dakar SENEGAL Tel. (221) 825 59 51/824 35 28 Fax (221) 825 59 55 mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected]

Job Title: Coordinator Of Small Grants Programme; Location: Dakar (Senegal); Closing Date for Applications: 30th June 2001; Contact Details: UAPS President UAPS/UEPA Stele Mermoz Route de Pyrotechnie x Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop BP 21007 Dakar/Ponty Dakar SENEGAL Tel. (221) 825 59 51/824 35 28 Fax (221) 825 59 55 mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected]

Despite the crash of the new economy and the death of countless internet companies, "technology will not be denied," say the editors of "Innovations in Newspapers 2001," the annual world report on developments in the
newspaper industry. The report, prepared by Innovation Media Consulting Group for the World Association of Newspapers, focuses on the light-speed changes taking place in the industry and how advanced technology is changing the daily newspaper into a new entity.

Delegates at a forum on child labor said Wednesday that nearly 80 million children in Africa are forced to work - some as prostitutes or miners - creating one of the world's most serious child labor problems. And the number of these child laborers - children 5 to 14 years old - could rise to 100 million by 2015, said Tim De Meyer of the International Labor Organization, a Geneva-based U.N. agency.

Two hundred schools in deprived hamlets of Upper Egypt are sending ripples through the country’s education system, making girls and women the beacons of a new learning experience.

Millions of girls are not making it into school, despite a concerted international movement to push the cause forward. In some African countries, the gender gap is even widening. What’s gone wrong?

Government is set to hike tuition fees for students studying at state universities by over 2 500% from August this year, a move that is set to trigger a wave of dropouts and violent protests. Documents in The Standard's possession show that vice-chancellors from state universities recently recommended that students pay up to $70 000 a year, up from the current $1 450 and $1 650 a year, depending on the degree programme.

MicroEdge, the leading provider of grants management software, has helped more than 1,600 foundations and corporate giving programs work with greater efficiency by automating the grantmaking process. To learn about our GIFTS software and Web-based solutions for e-philanthropy, visit our website.

The best interests of the child are served when the mother and the father are involved in their upbringing. Changing family roles, however, are influencing the socialisation of children. Why then, is consideration of the roles that men play often absent from development programmes targeting children?

Since 1979, International Year of the Child, the protection of children involved in war and adverse situations has become an international priority for rights activists and policymakers. How can children living in different cultures and countries best be helped?

Description of an approach to community participation that has worked for thousands of trainers in dozens of countries.

Although online access to the Internet has recently been introduced in many African universities, librarians in those universities often feel inadequately trained in its use. This is a programme of 'travelling' workshops on Internet use for staff in nine university library systems in Africa.

Bringing together South African academics, politicians and civil service practitioners with international experts in the field of public and development management to deliberate on governance with a view to assessing the results of the outcomes-based approach, as well as to inform the academic community of challenges in assessing the performance of such an approach.

The Office of the High Commissioner has received some funding through the auspices of the European Commission to provide financial assistance to NGOs wishing to participate in the World Conference Against Racism (31 August - 7 September) and the NGO Forum (28 August - 1 September) in Durban, South Africa.

Involves a different approach to project monitoring and evaluation by involving local people, project stakeholders, and development agencies deciding together.

The May list of funding oppotunities from EUPRAXIS.

We have learned that Akwasi Aidoo will become the Director of the Special Initiative for Africa.

This is a Ford Foundation-wide effort to support uniquely African continental responses to issues of peace and conflict, identity and citizenship and regional integration. The initiative will start with an initial incubation phase (based in the Ford Foundation's New York head office), which will focus on planning, grantmaking and convening of key institutions working in Africa. Eventually, the initiative will be institutionalized as an independent Africa-based Foundation or Fund, which provides effective stewardship of resources generated by a lasting endowment.

Kabissa and fahamu are pleased to congratulate Akwasi on this appointment. We hope to feature more about this initiative in a forthcoming issue of the Newsletter.