SOUTH AFRICA: PROGRAMME OFFICER

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Dec 13, 2001

The VSO programme in South Africa currently has over 30 volunteer development workers and focuses on three main sectors: HIV/AIDS; gender; housing, water and sanitation. It is now seeking to recruit a development professional, with the initiative, drive and energy to develop the programme in the housing, water and sanitation sector.

South Africa

IMFUNDO TO ADD ARABIC CONTENT

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Dec 13, 2001

Muslim Hands has become one of Imfundo's ResourceBank partners. It is already translating some of the key pages on its web-site into Arabic so that it can share information relating to its activities and the KnowledgeBank with Muslims in countries where English is not widely understood.

DRC: Government joins call to cut hygiene-related deaths

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Dec 13, 2001

The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Thursday joined a declaration by other African countries to take action to reduce death rates as a result of poor hygiene, and that called for the issue of disease-contaminated water to be put at the centre of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the UN Environment Programme reported.

Democratic Republic of Congo

NIGERIA: UN-backed conference opens on volatile oil region

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Dec 13, 2001

A three-day conference discussing development initiatives for Nigeria’s impoverished but volatile Niger Delta oil region began on Monday, in the southeastern city of Port Harcourt.

Nigeria

NIGERIA: UN-backed conference opens on volatile oil region

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Dec 13, 2001

A three-day conference discussing development initiatives for Nigeria’s impoverished but volatile Niger Delta oil region began on Monday, in the southeastern city of Port Harcourt.

Nigeria

12th International Conference on AIDS in Africa

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Dec 13, 2001

The 12th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Africa opened in Burkina Faso amid calls for improved access to treatment, Agence France-Presse reports. Six thousand delegates -- including public health workers, scientists and government officials from around the world -- will focus on "community solutions" to the African HIV/AIDS pandemic at the five-day meeting.

Cultivating Donors

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Dec 13, 2001

JOBS AT CIVICUS

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Dec 13, 2001

CIVICUS is an international civil society movement with members in over one hundred countries. Positions available: Chief Operating Officer, Director of Programmes, Director of Communications, Manager for Finance and Administration, Human Resources and Logistics Manager

South Africa: International Human Rights Academy

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Dec 06, 2001

The International Human Rights Academy (IHRA) is to be held from 3 April to 20 April 2002 on Robben Island, Cape Town under the auspices of the Law Faculty of the University of Western Cape (UWC), the Faculty of Law of the University of Ghent (RUG), and the Law Faculty of Utrecht University.

South Africa

Africa Grantmakers

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Dec 06, 2001

The Africa Grantmakers Affinity Group (AGAG) is a network of grantmakers working in, or interested in working in Africa. The group has its roots in the Southern Africa Grantmakers Affinity Group (SAGAG), which was designed to encourage greater foundation interest in South Africa, promote better grantmaking in the country, and assist nonprofit organizations fighting apartheid.

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