africa: facing up to the AIDS orphans crisis

Contributor
Sep 12, 2002

Of the 21 million deaths from AIDS to date, three quarters were people living in sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS in Africa is fuelled by poverty, and it is causing a humanitarian and economic crisis in which children orphaned by the disease are growing up without parents, schooling or adequate food. What should African governments and the international community be doing to tackle this growing catastrophe?

WSSD: Summit fails to take account of ageing

Contributor
Aug 22, 2002

The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) is failing to recognise that increasing numbers of those living in extreme poverty are older people. The WSSD calls poverty reduction "the greatest global challenge facing the world today and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development". It will re-state the goal of halving the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by 2015. But it is population ageing rather than population growth amongst the poor that is now the core ...read more

Human Rights and Democratization

Contributor
Sep 12, 2002

A new MA Program - Human Rights and Democratization - is a one-year inter-disciplinary program aiming to train human rights professionals in the field, including fact-finding, reporting, monitoring, education, lobbying, and research. Participants will obtain a thorough understanding of the legal framework, human rights instruments, and enforcement mechanisms in South Africa, Africa, and internationally.

SIERRA LEONE: DEPUTY COUNTRY PROGRAMME MANAGER - Oxfam

Contributor
Sep 12, 2002

With the growth of our programme in Sierra Leone it has become necessary to recruit a Deputy to the Country Programme Manager. We are therefore looking for an experienced manager to ensure that the programme is to a high standard, as well as playing an important deputising role.

Sierra Leone

kenya: Executive Director - ACORD

Contributor
Sep 12, 2002

Are you looking for a job where you are an integral part of a forward thinking innovative development agency in Africa? Do you believe that people are the primary actors in their own survival and development? Do you want to be part of an organisation that works in common cause to enable people living on the margins of African societies to exercise their rights?

Kenya

Counselling Skills Training

Contributor
Sep 12, 2002

This course, taking place between 3 and 16 November in Kampala, Uganda, is intended for service providers in youth centers, teachers, and tutors/wardens in educating institutions, and will equip participants with skills to assist adolescents in managing their reproductive health lives.

namibia: Number of Orphans Up Due to AIDS

Contributor
Aug 22, 2002

The Health and Social Services Ministry has 4 000 orphans on its books, most of whom have been left without parents as a result of HIV-AIDS.

Namibia

south africa: NGOs Need More State Funding - Study

Contributor
Aug 22, 2002

Ways should be found to direct state resources to the 98920 nonprofit organisations in the country as a way of facilitating development, University of Natal's Centre for Civil Society director Prof Adam Habib says.

South Africa

Kenya: EU Sets Aside $22,500 to Boost Tourism

Contributor
Aug 22, 2002

The European Union has earmarked Sh1.8 million for poverty alleviation through the Ministry of Tourism.

Kenya

South Africa : Denmark injects funds into anti-Aids fight

Contributor
Aug 22, 2002

Denmark has committed more than a R100 million to boost South Africa's fight against HIV/Aids. The funds will go towards two programmes aimed at reducing the impact of poverty and Aids, and tackling the link between violence against women and HIV/Aids.

South Africa

Pages