Democracy in Africa, a site promoting writing from African authors, have assembled a reading list on African Politics. This reading list is collated in solidarity with those who are currently attempting to decolonise the university across Africa, and beyond. It includes readings on themes such as Citizenship and Statehood, Social Movements and Civil Society, the Politics of Gender and Youth, the Politics of International Development amongst others. The hosts welcome your recommendations of outstanding scholarship to add to it. Currently, the list focuses on English translations and texts but the site hosts are in the midst of developing lists in other languages and would welcome suggestions.
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Decolonising the University: The African Politics Reading List
Democracy in Africa: 2016
Delivering HIV treatment - discussion summary available
More than 120 individuals from many countries and diverse backgrounds joined this discussion list. The debate covered a broad range of topics, focusing particularly on: HIV treatment as a priority relative to other health and development issues; Strategies for delivering treatment in resource-poor settings; The role and operation of the new Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria; Stigma as a barrier to access. The discussion provided a unique opportunity for a variety of stakeholders to share their views and contribute to this important and topical debate. Hard copies of the report will be available soon. To request a copy, email Tom Barker: tomb@ids.ac.uk
Delivering HIV treatment to the poor
Report from an id21 email discussion
What are the best strategies for HIV treatment delivery in developing countries? What barriers prevent poor people from accessing care? What role should the international community play in treatment programmes? In the run-up to the 14th International AIDS Conference, id21 asked participants to consider these and related questions.
More than 120 individuals from many countries and diverse backgrounds joined the discussion list. The debate covered a broad range of topics, focusing particularly on:
HIV treatment as a priority relative to other health and development issues
strategies for delivering treatment in resource-poor settings
the role and operation of the new Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
stigma as a barrier to access.
The discussion provided a unique opportunity for a variety of stakeholders to share their views and contribute to this important and topical debate.
Designing HIV/AIDS Intervention Studies
This Operations Research Handbook shows how to use operations research (OR) to design programmes that effectively combat HIV/AIDS. Written for programme administrators and researchers, the handbook draws on real-life lessons derived from projects implemented throughout the developing world.
Designing the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Sachs A: Design Indaba, 13 February 2013
Albie Sachs talks in this video about the design of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, a building that is “a place for everybody”. He spoke about how dreams, methods and madness formed a relationship that led to a building that came to symbolise the new constitutional democracy in South Africa. Situated where an old fort prison once stood, the Constitutional Court removes the negativity of the area and replaces it with a positive symbol of South Africa’s future. Sachs also spoke about the design of the Constitutional Court logo, which expresses, captures, projects and adds to what South African’s democracy stands for.
Developing a new service?
Looking for an organisation in any area of the world? Follow the link provided for a searchable database of thousands of HIV agencies in over 150 countries, to network with those who have the experience you need.
Developing Countries Journal Offer
Oxford University Press has set up a program wherein scholars from developing nations are eligible for free or greatly discounted electronic access to a large number of professional journals.
Development of a quality assurance handbook to improve educational courses in Africa
Nabwera HM, Purnell S and Bates I: Human Resources for Health 6(28), 18 December 2008
The attainment of the Millennium Development Goals has been hampered by the lack of skilled and well-informed health care workers in many developing countries. The departure of health care workers from developing countries is one of the most important causes. This handbook is intended to enable institutions to adapt quality assurance principles in accordance with their local resource capacity. The handbook addresses six minimum requirements that a higher education course should incorporate to ensure that it meets internationally recognised standards: recruitment and admissions, course design and delivery, student assessments, approval and review processes, support for students and staff training and welfare. It is hoped that the handbook will contribute to providing a skilled and sustainable health care workforce that would reduce the need for health care workers to travel overseas in search of good higher-education courses. The principles outlined in the handbook should provide a sound regulatory framework for establishing local, quality higher education courses.
Directory of Grants and Fellowships in the Global Health Sciences
Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in Health Sciences
This resource guide contains a comprehensive compilation of international funding opportunities in biomedical and behavioral research, separated by category.
Directory of Human Rights Funders
International Human Rights Funders Group
International Human Rights Funders Group and the Foundation Center have launched the first-ever visualization tool of the contemporary scope and landscape of global human rights grantmaking. The tool is designed to enable both grantmakers and grantseekers to search for human rights funders by several key criteria: areas of rights funding, activities supported and geographic focus. The map will be the first tool to be released as part of the centre’s Advancing Human Rights: Knowledge Tools for Funders initiative and will enable funders to search for grants by rights issue, population served, and location of grantee. To access the map, a user account must be created.