The Collaborative Fund for HIV/AIDS Women and Families in Sub-Saharan Africa calls for submissions of proposals from groups of women groups (non governmental and community based organisations) seeking funding support for Treatment Literacy & Preparedness. The overall objective of this grant is to support initiatives of women-led and/or women PLWHA led organisations especially those that represent specific interests of women living with HIV/AIDS.
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Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2017/en
Wikimedia Commons: Wikimedia, October 2017
Wiki Loves Africa is an annual contest where anyone across Africa can contribute media that relates to that year's theme to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other project websites of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wiki Loves Africa encourages participants to contribute media (photographs, video and audio) that illustrate the specific theme for that year. Each year the theme changes and is chosen by the community from universal, visually-rich and culturally-specific topics (for example, markets, rites of passage, festivals, public art, cuisine, natural history, urbanity, daily life, notable persons, etc). This year's photo contest is being held under the theme ... People at Work. It invites photographs that document all manner of occupations that are undertaken across the African continent - formal and informal, contemporary or ancient, business-oriented or creative. There are two special prizes for photo essays that capture Women Working or Rare, Fading or Threatened Traditional Crafts, Styles or Way of Working. The competition starts on 1st October 2017 and closes on 30th November 2017. Winners will be announced around February 2018.
COMMONWEALTH AWARDS FOR ACTION ON HIV/AIDS
The Commonwealth Secretariat, Commonwealth Foundation, Commonwealth Business Council and the Para 55 Group are jointly planning an Awards Ceremony for outstanding work, activities or projects in the area of HIV/AIDS. The Ceremony will take place in Melbourne, Australia on the evening of Thursday 4 October 2001, prior to the next meeting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government. Nominations are invited for awards in the following categories:(a) Policy and Advocacy (b) Prevention (c) Comprehensive Care. Groups: a maximum of 12 awards will be made, one in each of the above three categories to individuals or organisations within the following four groups:
(1) Government (2) Civil society/NGOs/community-based organisations (3) The private sector (4) The media. Nominations for awards must be received by 31 July 2001.
Commonwealth Foundation's Grants for Civil Society Organisations
Deadline: 31 January 2013
The Commonwealth Foundation has announced a new grant opportunity for civil society organisations (CSOs) for projects to be implemented in Commonwealth developing countries. The Foundation’s grants programme contributes to sustainable development in the context of effective, responsive and accountable governance with civil society participation. There are two types of grants: Commonwealth Theme Grants and Participatory Governance Grants. Commonwealth Themes grants will open for applications in 2013 while the Participatory Governance Grants can now be applied for. Grants will be given to selected organisations for a period of three years amounting up to £30,000 per year. The objectives of the grant programme are to: deliver an efficient and effective programme which is responsive to the development needs of CSOs across the Commonwealth; complement the effectiveness of the Foundation’s projects by providing grants to CSOs beyond those supported through the projects; and generate knowledge and understanding of participatory governance and its benefits in promoting effective, responsive and accountable governance within the Commonwealth by supporting models of good practice.
Communicating Population and Health Research to Policymakers
17 August – 29 August, 2003, Kampala, Uganda
Population and health studies, demographic surveys, censuses, and other research findings can play a key role in guiding policy and resource-allocation decisions. Yet every year, millions of dollars are spent to produce research results that fail to reach policymakers and, consequently, are not used to shape policies and programs. To help bridge the gap between researchers and policymakers, Makerere University and the Population Reference Bureau are cosponsoring a communication workshop. Sessions will help participants identify the policy implications of survey data and research findings, understand how research can influence the policy process, and communicate findings.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29743
Communicating Scientific Research on HIV and AIDS to Policy Makers and Practitioners
The Centre for Applied Social Sciences (CASS), University of Zimbabwe
The Centre for Applied Social Sciences (CASS), University of Zimbabwe with the support of the Biomedical Research and Training Institute’s NIH funded International, Clinical, Operational, and Health Services Research Training Award (ICOHRTA) programme, is delighted to announce a short training course on ‘Communicating Scientific Research on HIV and AIDS to Policy Makers and Practitioners.’ There is no doubt that there is abundant research on HIV and AIDS. The biggest question is whether that research is translated into policy and action capable of improving the condition of those living with the disease. Something needs to be done if researchers must escape the charge of being irrelevant. The course is designed to assist researchers and students to better communicate research on HIV and AIDS to those with the capacity to develop policy and plans that can improve the condition of people affected and infected with HIV and AIDS.
Further details: /newsletter/id/32944
Competition: African Voices Photography
Deadline: 1 December 2015
University College London (UCL) invite staff members or students of any African university to submit photographs which capture personal stories and experiences of contemporary Africa. The winning selections will be exhibited in physical form and online as part of the AfricanVoices season at UCL and then displayed by the UCL African Studies Research Centre (Institute of Advanced Studies) on walls, online and at other events with the photographer’s name displayed clearly in each case. The best overall entry will be awarded a tablet and there will be four runners-up prizes for the best photograph in each category. Photographs will be judged in four categories: Cities, Health, Human Wellbeing and Intercultural Interaction. The competition is not open to professional photographers.
Conference celebrating a decade of health promoting schools: Strengthening whole school development
University of the Western Cape
On the 10th anniversary of the Health Promoting Schools Conference, which was first held at UWC in 1996, the UWC Health Promoting Schools Project is to host a national Health Promoting Schools Conference at the University of the Western Cape. It will draw together academics and researchers from universities and research councils in South Africa; stakeholders from the Departments of Health, Education and Social Development; the Western Cape Reference Group for Health Promoting Schools; and relevant non governmental organizations. You are cordially invited to submit abstracts of papers and posters related to health promoting schools. Deadlines: for abstract submissions 28 June 2006, for early registration 12 July 2006.
Conference on Healthcare and Trade
10 –11 December 2009, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Erasmus Observatory on Health Law will be hosting the upcoming International Conference on Healthcare and Trade on the 10th and 11th of December, 2009. The conference will focus on the influence of the law of both the European Union and the World Trade Organization on trade in health services, health insurance services and health goods (pharmaceuticals). The application of the European Community Treaty, the General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS) and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) to national regulation of health services, health insurance services and pharmaceuticals raises questions of applicability of, compatibility with and possible exceptions to the provisions of these instruments. Further research and discussion in this area is ongoing. The conference aims to contribute to the discussion, attempting to formulate both legal and economic answers. Please refer to the programme and the application form attached to this news item.
Further details: /newsletter/id/34041
Conference on Rights of Women in Africa
Pretoria, South Africa, 9 - 10 December 2013
The Centre for Human Rights at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, is hosting an international conference to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa on 8 - 9 December 2013. Commemorating the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa: Exploring possibilities for promoting women’s sexual and reproductive rights. The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (also called the ‘Maputo Protocol’) was adopted in 2003 and entered into force in 2005. It has now been ratified by two-thirds of AU member states. One of the most important provisions of the Protocol is article 14, dealing with the health and reproductive rights of women. The conference will reflect on these and other innovative aspects of the Protocol.