The Centre for African Family Studies (CAFS) is pleased to announce its course on 'Managing Reproductive Health Programmes', to be held from 12 to 30 March 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya. This course provides state of the art guidance to Reproductive Health Programme Managers and enhances their capacity to achieve organisational success through modern management techniques. Participants will gain a wide range of management skills and principles including management process and principles, leadership, team building, programme design, proposal writing, participatory facilitative programme supervision, monitoring and evaluation, strategic planning, human resource management, learning organisations, building coalitions and alliances and facilitation skills.
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The Centre for African Family Studies (CAFS) presents the "Resource Mobilisation" training course scheduled to take place in Nairobi, Kenya from 3 to 7 December 2007. This one-week course provides skills for designing, implementing and evaluating an efficient resource mobilisation campaign. With the advent of globalisation and the changing HIV & AIDS paradigm, managers find themselves in a far more competitive environment within which they must secure resources for the growth and sustainability of their organisations and programmes.CAFS invites you and members of your staff, grantees or collaborating partners to apply for admission to this course. The tuition fee for this course is US$1,000, which covers tuition, training materials, supplies and certification awards.
The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), in partnership with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Ford Foundation, is pleased to announce the African Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowships (ADDRF), a new fellowship program to support doctoral students at African universities whose theses address issues relating to heath systems strengthening in Africa. One of these fellowships will support doctoral research that focuses on the broad field of sexuality research. The deadline for applications is March 29, 2008. The ADDRF will award a maximum of 16 fellowships in the first year. These fellowships will be awarded to advanced doctoral students who are within two years of completing their doctoral thesis at an African university. Dissertation topics addressing health systems-related issues or sexuality from any disciplinary perspective are eligible for consideration.
This public lecture on ‘The Power of Advocacy’ will be presented by Mr Stephen Lewis, who will draw on his extensive international experience to illustrate the power of advocacy in the fight for social justice, reproductive rights, global health and gender equality. He is the co-founder and co-director of AIDS-Free World (www.aidsfreeworld.org), which is an international advocacy organisation that works to promote more urgent and more effective global responses to HIV/AIDS.
Arusha, Tanzania. Global Forum launches invitations to Forum 6 - a policy meeting on the 10/90 gap - will bring together decision-makers in the field of health, health research, development, foreign aid and media to present their latest results and contribute ideas for the next stages of work in health research for development and the fight against poverty.
Applications are invited from suitably qualified West Africans for a two-year appointment as an Anthropologist to work on a project studying the economic and socio-economic determinants of the demand for malaria treatment. The candidate will be based at the MRC's Field Station at Farafenni but will need to spend periods living and working in the surrounding villages. There is a possibility that the candidate will be appointed a Gates Research Training Fellow linked to the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Fellows will receive mentoring from staff at LSHTM as well as local supervision and support for further appropriate training. Qualifications: a) Masters degree in anthropology or a related discipline; b) Experience in carrying out qualitative research; c) Experience of training and supervising staff at different levels; d) Computer literacy in word processing and email; e) Proficiency in at least one of the main languages of The Gambia; f) Excellent command of English; g) Ability to work independently as well as in a team; h) Flexible approach to work; i) Excellent communication skills; j) Ability to work independently and co-operatively in a team; k) Willingness to live and work in a rural setting. Salary will be in Occupational Group D1/D2 commensurate with qualifications and experience and will be within the range D73, 340 per annum - D110, 800 per annum plus a composite allowance of 50 per cent of basic salary. Further details and applications forms are available from the Personnel Officer, MRC Laboratories Fajara, P.O. Box 273, Banjul, The Gambia, West Africa. Telephone: (+220) 495442/6 & 494072/9; Fax: (+220) 495919; email: personnel@mrc.gm. Please also send a copy of your application to: Dr. Tracey Henshaw, Assistant Manager Gates Malaria Partnership, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 50 Bedford Square, London, UK. WC1B 3DP; Fax: +44 020 7299 4720; email: Tracey.Henshaw@lshtm.ac.uk. Closing date for applications is 21 Jun 2002.
The Antipode Foundation exists for the promotion and advancement of social scientific research, education and scholarship in the field of radical geography. Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project Awards are intended to support collaborations between academics, non-academics and activists (from NGOs, think tanks, social movements, or community grassroots organisations, among other places) that further radical analyses of geographical issues and engender the development of a new and better society. They are aimed at promoting programmes of action-research, participation and engagement, cooperation and co-enquiry, and more publicly-focused forms of geographical investigation. The Antipode Foundation strives to fund work that leads to the exchange of ideas across and beyond the borders of the academy, and builds meaningful relationships and productive partnerships. Projects could take many forms including, but not limited to: collaborative research with artistic, community, cultural, grassroots, or social movement groups; the production of educational materials and other innovative pedagogical initiatives; and the promotion of links between universities and institutions/organisations outside the academy. Anyone can apply for an Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project Award (including academics and students, and activists of all kinds), but the grant must be held and administered by a host institution (these could be research, higher education or community-based institutions).
Tekano's mission to foster dynamic, visionary, value-based leaders working both individually and in catalytic communities of learning and action who articulate, convey and act to promote health equity by addressing the social and structural determinants of health. Tekano's programme is built around annual fellowships for mid-career people from diverse backgrounds and disciplines who have already shown leadership in addressing the determinants of health equity. The programme is composed of 6 face-to-face modules, held every two months from January to December 2019. Applicants must be a South African citizen or valid permit holders between 25- 45 of age with evidence of showing leadership and commitment to social justice in South Africa, linked to health equity. Applicants must commit to all program activities of the Fellows Programme in 6 modules in 2019 and either be employed or volunteer with a sending organisation/s.
The World Health Organisation and UNITAID are looking for individuals wishing to serve on UNITAID’s Advisory Group on Funding Priorities (AGFP). The AGFP aims to contribute to scaling up access to treatment for HIV and AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis for people in developing countries by leveraging price reductions of quality drugs and diagnostics, which currently are unaffordable for most developing countries, and to accelerate the pace at which they are made available. It is an independent expert panel that assists in identifying – according to the UNITAID Strategy endorsed by the Board - potential priority niches of high-market and public health impact to be funded by UNITAID. Members of the AGFP are high-level experts with academic or major organisational experience in their fields of work, which will also be the areas of UNITAID's focus. The panel is broadly constituted, comprising members with expertise in the public health aspects of UNITAID’s areas of work, health economics, market dynamics, programme management, health research and new product development. Submissions should be sent to arrive no later than Sunday 20th March 2011.
As part of its national research capacity-strengthening mandate, the Consortium for National Health Research (CNHR) invites applications for research career development grants (RCDGs) from qualified Kenyan researchers (currently based in Kenya or working within the Diaspora) who wish to further develop their careers while undertaking research and training programmes in Kenya. The grants aim at enabling successful applicants to obtain high-quality research training that will lay the foundation for a successful independent research career. CNHR is planning to award 12 RCDGs commencing in October 2012. The grants will be competitively offered to support the development of research ideas, or acquisition of specialised research/training skills as a step towards a productive independent research career in areas of national health priority currently focused on the attainment of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 (child health); 5 (maternal health); 6 (infectious diseases); emerging and non-communicable diseases, with improvement of health systems as an overarching theme.