Activists from all over Southern Africa are invited to apply. Since 2002 the ILRIG annual Globalisation Schools have brought together trade unions and social movement activists from different parts of Africa to engage in education and debate around the many aspects of capitalist globalisation. This year our theme will be Alternatives to Globalisation. All participants are charged a registration fee of R250. This includes materials, accommodation and all meals. ILRIG will not cover travel costs. Space will be allocated on first-come-first-serve basis and ILRIG will ensure a gender balance.
Jobs and Announcements
ILRIG Globalisation School 2007 - 23 to 28 September in Cape Town - Alternatives to Globalisation
International Labour Research and Information Group (ILRIG)
Impact assessment: How do we know we are making a difference?
The Communication Initiative, 25-26 October 2007
The profile of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) has increased together with the need for them to assess the long-term impact of their work. In three fruitful days you will explore the current state of the debate about impact assessment and review current methodologies. This workshop will review the developments in the methodologies for assessing the impact of the types of Social Development work undertaken by NGOs. It will analyse the emergence of Impact Assessment as a separate discipline. It will also explore the areas of overlap between evaluations, and impact assessment which aims to identify the longer-term changes associated with Social Development work.
Impumelelo Innovations Award Trust - HIV/AIDS Workshop
11-12 September 2008. Cape Town International Convention Centre.
This workshop aims to highlight and share best practice lessons that will improve policy, practice and implementation on HIV programmes. The workshop targets senior staff in organisations that operate in the AIDS sector.
Further details: /newsletter/id/33332
Contact: chris@impumelelo.org.za
In Memory of Chimusoro Sam Moyo
In deep sorrow we mourn the sudden and untimely death of Sam Moyo, profound scholar and progressive activist, beloved comrade, Member of the Executive Committee of IDEAs. Sam was in New Delhi, India to participate in a conference on "Labour Questions in the Global South" when a car he was travelling in was involved in a terrible accident. Sam was critically hurt and passed away on 22 November 2015. We send sympathies to his family. The words below are by Bella Matambanadzo. "An unimaginable loss has happened. Our phenomenal intellectual pan African giant on land issues, Professor Sam Moyo, has died following injuries sustained during a terrible car accident in New Delhi, India. We are in disbelief. We are waiting for him to come home. We feel ripped apart with pain...."
Further details: /newsletter/id/56574
Inaugural Conference of the African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA), Accra, Ghana
Dates revised: 10 to 12 March 2009
The revised dates for the Conference have now been fixed for 10 to 12 March 2009 at the La Palm Beach Hotel in Accra. The theme of the conference is 'Priorities of Health Economics in Africa'. The conference will cover: User fees; Health insurance and equitable health care financing in Africa; New international health care financing mechanisms and initiatives; Human resources for health in Africa; Economic evaluation of health services in Africa; Measuring health and factors contributing to health; Microeconomic techniques and issues; Preferences and willingness to pay; Economics and financing of AIDS and malaria in Africa; and Health research priorities.
Incentive grants for young researchers from LMICs: Implementation research to scale up national NCD and mental health-related responses for achieving SDG 3.4
Deadline for Applications: 30 September 2021
These grants support research projects that Identify gaps, implementation challenges, and national priorities, and propose solutions with the potential to influence policy and practices for NCD prevention and control and promotion of mental health and well-being in LMICs; and that engage diverse stakeholders across sectors and actors throughout the research process;. The would should explore the best strategies to create strong partnerships between governments, NGOs, the private sector, researchers, communities, and individuals (particularly vulnerable populations) to address NCD prevention and control and promotion of mental health and well-being and identify lessons about implementation and propose feasible actionable solutions within the context. The results of this work may inform further research into this area in the future, including testing such practices and mechanisms in various settings. The submitted proposals can address a wide variety of issues aimed at scaling up NCD prevention and control and promotion of mental health and well-being, establishing multisectoral and multistakeholder coordination mechanisms, and understanding innovative integrated delivery models to shift from disease-focused treatment approaches to sustainable person-centered health systems.
Inequalities in health and health care
June 8 to 12, 2009: University of Geneva, Switzerland
This course is intended for PhD students and other researchers interested in the quantitative analysis of inequality and inequity in health and health care. The course consists of five days of lectures and tutorials on a number of topics related to the measurement and explanation of inequities/inequalities in health. Apart from providing a general introduction into the range of approaches available to researchers, it will also provide practical experience of computation using Stata. Illustrations will be based on real-world examples drawn from evidence in European and other OECD countries, as well as developing countries. The objectives are to review health economics approaches to the measurement of inequality and inequity, provide detailed guidance on computational procedures using Stata and provide hands-on experience with computation-based exercises.
Info-Activism Camp: Maximising your advocacy work
The Info-Activism Camp is organised by Tactical Tech and will be held in India in February 2009. Tactical Tech is an international NGO helping rights advocates use information, communications and digital technologies to maximise the impact of their advocacy work. They provide advocates with guides, tools, training and consultancy to help them develop the skills and tactics they need to increase the impact of their campaigning. The Info-Activism Camp will bring together 120 rights advocates from the global South with technologists, designers and activists for a week-long hands-on workshop to share skills, tools and tactics in digital advocacy.
Contact: infoactivism@tacticaltech.org
Innovative healthcare initiative launched in Cape Town
Mulligan G: Humanipo. January 2014.
The Inclusive Healthcare Innovation Initiative (IHII) has been launched in South Africa by two University of Cape Town (UCT) faculties, with the aim of creating a collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach to achieving healthcare innovation. The Graduate School of Business and the Faculty of Health Sciences unveiled the collaborative project, which is intended to encourage African citizens to reimagine healthcare across the continent. “The complexity of challenges faced in healthcare is calling for different paradigms of thinking and for the co-creation of new innovative solutions,” said Professor de Villiers, dean of UCT Faculty of Health Sciences. “Now more than ever innovation is required to develop solutions that can improve the delivery of healthcare in Africa in an inclusive, effective and affordable manner. These solutions must transcend current challenges in the system to improve health outcomes for patients but also to change the routines, responsibility and values of our healthworkers responsible for delivering the care.”New iPad app to record data at Groote Schuur.
Insitute on Health, Politics And Society in Africa
Access and Equity in African Health Systems, Call for Application, 2005
As part of on-going programme innovation and expansion, CODESRIA in 2004 launched an institute on Health, Politics and Society in Africa in a bid to promote an enhanced interest in multidisciplinary health research among African scholars. The initiative flows from the current CODESRIA strategic plan which has placed a considerable emphasis on the promotion of social science approaches to health studies in Africa and a structured dialogue between the Social Sciences and the Health/Biomedical Sciences.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30878