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...read more

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 Wi...read more

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 witne...read more

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.

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