SOUTH AFRICA: Research Systems

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May 30, 2002

The Access Success Team have been working in the NGO sector, and contractors serving the NGO sector over the last four years. We have designed various project management; research; monitoring and evaluation; administration; project auditing systems; and quoting systems with great success.

South Africa

SOUTH AFRICA: Financial sustainability

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May 30, 2002

The Non Profit Partnership together with the Provincial Parliamentary Programme will be hosting a one-week training course on Financial Sustainability for NGOs and government officials working with these structures in Kwa Zulu Natal. This is a newly established training programme, aimed at the current needs of the sector.

South Africa

SOUTH AFRICA: CAPACITY BUILDING

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May 30, 2002

During June, CREA South Africa, under a contract to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will issue a Request for Applications to interested South African organizations for the award of a cooperative grant agreement for a period of twenty months to undertake Capacity Building of Ward Committees and the Implementation of an Awareness Campaign on the new structures and systems of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Council.

South Africa

SOUTH AFRICA: LOCAL GOVERNANCE

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May 30, 2002

During June, CREA South Africa, under a contract to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will issue a Request for Proposals to interested South African organizations for the award of firm fixed price contract for a period of twenty four months to undertake a Community Participation and Capacity Building for Effective Local Governance Project for the West Coast District Municipality. This project forms part of the USAID/DPLG Local Governance Support Program (LGSP).

South Africa

BURUNDI: Government, military now willing to discuss child soldiers

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Jun 06, 2002

Despite initial denials that child soldiers are serving in the Burundi army, government and military leaders have now shown a new willingness to deal with the issue, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported on Monday.

Burundi

BURUNDI: UNICEF short of funds

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Jun 06, 2002

UNICEF, the UN Children's Fund, has received just 24 percent of the funds needed to implement urgent projects for women and children in Burundi in 2002, requested as part of the UN Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal.

Burundi

MALAWI: Conservative Malawi grapples with sex education

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Jun 06, 2002

The Malawi Censorship Board has ordered the removal of a controversial condom advertisement that it has declared offensive and pornographic.

Malawi

Teachers' Meeting and Youth Summit

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Jun 06, 2002

IEARN, which joins 5,000 schools in 92 countries, will hold its ninth summit in Moscow on July 7. The meet will discuss the outcomes of its online project work and plans for the future.

Kenya: Soccer Tournament Highlights Plight Of Street Children

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Jun 06, 2002

Hundreds of Kenyan slum and street children last Thursday thronged the National Stadium in Nairobi to take part in the finals of a month-long soccer tournament, as part of an initiative launched this year to combat drug abuse and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV/AIDS, among these high-risk youth.

Kenya

Kenya: Revamp Technical Studies

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Jun 06, 2002

Technical training, the basis of industrial development to which the Government is committed, is reeling under such serious difficulties that unless something is done urgently, it may keel over altogether.

Kenya

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