Western donors this week shrugged off lingering concerns over the conduct of controversial general elections, held last December, to pledge a record US $1.3 billion in aid to Zambia this year.
The Eastern Cape Community Chest has welcomed some new donors this month: Pharmacare Manufacturing staff and a number of new manufacturing staff members at Daimler Chrysler.
SciDev.Net is a recently-established website, committed to building awareness of the potential contribution of science and technology to meeting the needs of developing countries. We are seeking a creative, self-motivated and experienced individual to be the regional coordinator for the sub-Saharan African network. The coordinator will be based in eastern Africa.
World Neighbors seeks an East Africa Area Representative. Responsibilities include program development, strategic planning, budgeting, evaluation, reporting, administration and fund-raising.
The Regional Coordinator will be posted to the field office in West Africa to support management of the HIV/AIDS Workplace Prevention and Education Program within Benin, Ghana, and Togo.
The Child Survival Program Manager is responsible for overseeing the implementation, monitoring and supervision of IRC's child survival program in Kabare Health Zone, South Kivu province, eastern DRC. All child survival activities are designed and implemented in coordination with local health authorities.
ACORD is looking for a new Executive Director to be responsible for the strategic leadership and overall organisational management of all areas of ACORD's work.
The number of AIDS orphans in Uganda has increased five-fold from 177,000 in 1990 to 884,000 at the end of 2001, a joint report by three development agencies indicates.
An increase in adolescent suicides that is suspected to be related to difficulties in paying school fees; pupils afflicted by skin rashes because their school has no sanitation facilities; schools situated far from the communities they serve, imposing long walks on pupils; zero attendance on some wintry days because of the lack of shelter at schools: These are some of the wide-ranging problems in many South African schools that still seriously impede the right to basic education.
The latest issue of the weekly newspaper "La Tribune" has been banned, apparently because it contained criticism of recent government efforts to interfere with the election of the president of the national bar association.
