ACHIEVE is aimed to equip new researchers with the competencies necessary for closing the gap between measuring inner city health inequities and reducing them. The program has two main foci: Population Health and Health Services Interventions Research; and Community Engagement, Partnerships, and Knowledge Translation. Three to five Fellows may be accepted for the 2012-2014 term. To be eligible, you must have a PhD completed within the past three years or a health professional degree plus Master’s level degree (Master’s degree completed within the past three years). If you are currently completing your PhD/ Master’s degree, you must expect to complete all requirements of this degree by 1 September 2012. Acceptance to the programme cannot be deferred.
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The Ford Foundation seeks two Program Officers to respectively focus on Addressing Social and Cultural Barriers to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in West Africa (targeting Nigeria and sub-regional initiatives); and Protecting the Rights of Women and Girls and Addressing Social and Cultural Barriers to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in East Africa. The Foundation’s Nairobi office seeks a dynamic individual to implement, monitor and coordinate grant making programs on Protecting the Rights of Women and Girls portfolio and the Sexuality and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) portfolio. For further information please contact the email address below before October 14, 2009.
IOM, through the PHAMESA programme seeks to carry out a study that examines SRH challenges faced by migrants and barriers to access to SRH care services in migration affected communities and migration corridors. In addition, the study should identify gaps in existing SRHR programmes and policies in the selected migration affected communities and migration corridors. The research institution/consortium will lead the research in all selected migration corridors and migration affected communities, and is expected to carry out the following activities: Produce inception report and detailed plan to carry out the study; develop study protocol and data collection tools and translate into local languages as appropriate; conduct detailed desk review including sexual and reproductive health policy analysis at national and regional levels; conduct semi-structured interviews with policy makers, key stakeholders and actors (state and non-state) and migrants at community, national and regional levels; develop a field manual to guide on the data collection process; develop and administer appropriate data collection instruments/tools in line with the study purpose, objectives, study population and the outlined SRHR focus areas and submit a narrative report of findings and recommendations using a format that shall be agreed upon.
Lend your voice to a continuing discussion that is helping to shape Africa's future. The inspiring contributions of our speakers are the key component behind eLearning Africa’s position as the most relevant networking event for practitioners and professionals working in ICT, education and training on the Continent. Whether you’re using a mobile app to engage young people with citizenship programmes, implementing state of the art technology to bring rural communities onto the grid and online, researching the impact of tablets in vocational learning, coordinating a local iHub to encourage home-grown innovation or lobbying government to prioritise ICT in national education policy, the eLearning Africa Conference audience wants to hear about it. they are are looking for the stories, experiences, research, thinking and expertise that make up the picture of ICT for development, education and training in Africa today, under the overall theme of Opening Frontiers to the Future.
Scholars working on Women in Mining across Africa are invited to contribute to an edited book volume which aims to focus on contributions (through labour and otherwise) and roles (through social reproduction or resistance struggles) played by African women in mining/ extractive industries. African mining historiography has largely erased or silenced women and neglected their contribution in mining. In this literature and popular culture, mineworkers are almost always seen as men, as though mines are, and have always been, inhabited by men. This is despite evidence from as early as the 1500s which shows women as ‘pit people’. Scholarship which acknowledges women’s presence tends to portray women as outsiders who inhabit the ‘peripheries’ of mining and hardly as ‘centres’ or key players in their own right. This book project aims to address this bias by revisiting and interrogating, from a feminist perspective, the contributions of women in mining and the historiography of mining in Africa, as a way of re-claiming “her-story” and re-insert it into ‘hi-story’ of mining, to recover and resurrect women’s voices, centre their role and attest to their presence and make visible their contributions in mining. The gaps the editors seek to address include; different roles played by women who work/worked in mining (underground, open cast, artisanal and alluvial mines) and the invisible social reproduction work done by women in mining communities. The editors are also interested in chapters that revisit and critically re-examine archival material, and insert African women in the dominant mining historiography which currently excludes and or marginalises them. Authors who are interested in submitting a paper should, in the first instance, send a short abstract-length proposal (not more than 500 words) outlining the scope of their paper and its novelty by the 20th of April 2017.
The Africa Initiative, a joint partnership between The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and Makerere University (MAK), that the research grants competition is now accepting new proposals for funding of up to $15,000 CAD. They would like to invite applicants to submit proposals that are field-based and address substantive-policy relevant challenges facing African policy makers at national, regional, and global levels in one or more of the areas of conflict resolution, energy, food security, health, migration, and the cross-cutting theme of climate change. The Africa Initiative encourages proposals from relevant fields of physical sciences and social sciences. Priority will be given to African-based scholars, and early- to mid-career Canadian-based researchers. Applicants must have a post-graduate degree or be in the advanced stages of a doctoral program.
The Collaborative Fund for HIV/AIDS Treatment Preparedness in Southern Africa calls for submissions from organisations seeking funding for community-based HIV treatments advocacy and education programs. Grants will be allocated to successful applications for a period of up to one year to a maximum amount of 10,000 US dollars per application.
Eastern Africa Treatment Access Movement (EATAM) in collaboration with the Collaborative Fund for HIV/AIDS Treatment Preparedness calls for submission of proposals from organizations seeking funding for community-based HIV treatments preparedness programs. Grants will be allocated to successful applications for a period of up to one year to a maximum amount of 10, 000 US dollars per application.
This call for "Incentives to Attract and Retain Qualified Health Workers to Under-served areas within Low- and Middle-income Countries" is issued in collaboration with the Human Resources for Health Department of WHO and is intended to support pragmatic and policy oriented research that either enhances understanding about factors that influence health workers choice of practice location, and/or the feasibility and effectiveness of practical measures to influence health worker location. A total of US$500,000 is also available to support proposals under this call. The closing date for the call is 12 September 2008. The call is only open to applicants in low- and middle-income countries.
This call for "Supporting National Processes for Evidence-informed Policy in the Health Sector of Developing Countries" is intended to promote a variety of possible strategies that strengthen evidence-to-policy links. A total of US$500,000 is available to support proposals under this call. The closing date for the call is 12 September 2008. All applicants must be based in low- or middle-income countries. Teams composed of different organisations and actors (such as policy-makers, research institutions, think tanks, civil society representatives and knowledge brokers) are particularly welcome to apply.