INTERNATIONAL LEARNING INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION

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Nov 22, 2001

The People's Movement for Human Rights Education (PDHRE) is in the process of
establishing an international learning institution that will conduct workshops with human rights educators and community leaders from around the world. If your organization is interested in participating in this process, please email us.

South Africa: CITIZEN BASE AWARD- LOCAL RESOURCES

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Nov 22, 2001

Sangonet will provide free passes to a two-day IT training course as part of citizen base awards. South African NGOs are invited to propose strategies, which are replicable, innovative and feasible and demonstrate the ability to generate resources and mobilise citizen support. This is an international award that has already been held in Brazil, Thailand, Bangladesh and India; and is currently running in Argentina.

South Africa

SUPPLIERS NEEDED

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Nov 22, 2001

AfriProcure, the recently-launched procurement agency for NGOs, Churches and charities, has secured a major contract for the supply of sugar beans and maize for refugees in Angola. It needs to make contact with a range of suppliers to facilitate its programme.

COUNTRY, FUNDING DIRECTORS

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Nov 22, 2001

AMREF, which was founded in 1957, has recently launched its ambitious new corporate strategy which focuses on retaining AMREF’s position as a leader in health development across Africa.
It is searching for suitable candidates to fill the challenging positions of Country Director - Uganda and Director, Fundraising and
Communications in our organisation.

SOUTH AFRICA: ARTS HEALING

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Nov 22, 2001

A Healing Through Creative Arts Conference is being hosted by the Centre for the Study of Violence and
Reconciliation in collaboration with the cultural desk of Evangelischer
Entwicklungsdienst Deutschland, at Museum Africa, Newtown, Johannesburg.

South Africa

USAID PROGRAMME STATEMENT

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Nov 22, 2001

Applications for USAID's
Civil Society Strengthening Programme will be accepted up to one year of the issuance date of the Annual Programme Statement, 9 March 2002.

ZIMBABWE: COMMUNITY-BASED WORKSHOPS

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Nov 22, 2001

In its current civic education programme the Popular Education Collective is conducting community-based workshops in Masvingo and Manicaland. The workshops are on good governance, choosing effective leaders, citizen participation, non-violence and tolerance, transparency and accountability. Civic education materials such as posters, leaflets, T-shirts, stickers etc. will be produced on the above topics.

Zimbabwe

DRC: WFP reports calm in Zongo despite CAR instability

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Nov 22, 2001

Despite recent instability in Bangui, capital of the neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR), the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday that the situation in Zongo, across the Bangui river in the northwestern Equateur province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), remained "calm", with no major new influx of refugees reported.

Democratic Republic of Congo

NIGERIA: UNICEF to boost girls' education

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Nov 22, 2001

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has drawn up a five-year programme to boost girls' education in six Nigerian states starting next year, Maman Sidikou, head of UNICEF's education unit in the country said.

Nigeria

REFLECT

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Nov 22, 2001

REFLECT - an approach to adult learning and social change that fuses the theory of Paulo Freire with the methodologies of participatory rural appraisal. Enables groups to develop their own learning materials by constructing maps, calendars, matrices, diagrams or using forms of drama, story-telling and songs, which can capture social, economic, cultural and political issues from their own environment.

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