(OSISA) is a leading regional foundation, established in 1997 by investor and philanthropist George Soros, to create and sustain the institutions, policies and practices of an open society, where good governance, human rights and justice are respected and upheld. Its programmes broadly focus on Education, Media, Human Rights and Democracy as well as Information Communication Technologies. In addition to undertaking advocacy, and working through multi-level partnerships with others, OSISA oversees US$5 million in grants annually across a region made up of Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Jobs and Announcements
Southern Africa: HIV/AIDS Programme Officer
Open Society Initiative For Southern Africa
Further details: /newsletter/id/30375
SOUTHERN AFRICA: PROGRAM MANAGER
LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF
LWR is now recruiting for a Program Manager for HIV/AIDS Projects - based in South Africa - to support churches and related ecumenical or faith-based organisations in Southern Africa to develop programs to address the AIDS crisis in impoverished communities - based on need rather than on race, ethnicity, religion, or creed. This is a temporary position with a two-year contract with no possibility of renewal.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29979
SOUTHERN AFRICA: PROGRAMME OFFICER
Equinet
The Regional Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET) is seeking a dynamic and committed public health professional as a programme officer to support the work in EQUINET. EQUINET works on issues of equity in health in southern Africa and supports research, policy development and analysis, information dissemination, networking and advocacy through institutions across southern Africa.
The programme officer works closely with the programme manager, the co-ordinators of EQUINET’s theme work and the steering committee. The work involves:
- Reviewing and providing technical and administrative support to the research, publication and policy intervention work, within specific themes and across the network;
- Preparing calls for grants, meeting and conference announcements, briefings and reports;
- Implementation and reporting on network wide activities (skills workshops, training, student grants, cross cutting research and analysis, conferences, publications and policy intervention);
- Ensuring the production and dissemination of EQUINET publications;
- Organising and ensuring reporting on core EQUINET processes, including evaluation work, the steering committee meetings and the EQUINET conference;
- Presenting EQUINET work and analysis in policy platforms, networks and joint alliance work in the Southern African Development Community (SADC);
- Providing input to the EQUINET website, newsletter and data bases.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30140
Southern African Regional Gender Mainstreaming Symposium
5 - 7 April 2005, Orion Hotel – Mbabane, Swaziland: Call for Resource Persons/Facilitators
Why is it that almost a decade after ratifying and acceding the Beijing and Dakar Platforms for Action, after the Convention of Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, engendering processes of the Millennium Development Goals, Maputo Declaration on Gender Mainstreaming , SADC Declaration on Gender and Development and various other treaties and conventions, southern African countries continue to battle with: gender power imbalances, gender based violence, gender based stigma and discrimination, feminization of poverty and ultimately feminization of the HIV/AIDS epidemic? SAfAIDS is hosting a southern African Regional Gender Mainstreaming Symposium in Swaziland from 5 - 7 April 2005. The link below also includes a call for participants.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30851
Spatial Inequality and Development Conference
London School of Economics - June 27-29, 2002
CALL FOR PAPERS
Amidst a growing concern about increasing inequality, the spatial dimensions of inequality have begun to attract considerable policy interest. In China, Russia, India, Mexico and South Africa, as well as most other developing and transition economies, there is a sense that spatial and regional inequality, of economic activity, incomes and social indicators, is on the increase. Despite these important popular and policy concerns, there is remarkably little systematic and coherent documentation of the facts of what has happened to spatial and regional inequality over the past ten to twenty years. Correspondingly, there is insufficient understanding of the determinants of internal spatial inequality in a globalizing world. To meet this gap in knowledge, Cornell University, London School of Economics and WIDER are sponsoring a conference on "Spatial Inequality and Development," to be held at the London School of Economics on June 27-29, 2002. The conference seeks to attract contributions, which document and analyze the facts of within country spatial inequality, and its determinants, especially during the period of globalization of the last two decades. A broad view is taken of inequality, covering the distribution of such variables as economic activity, economic structure, population, income, social indicators, infrastructure and public expenditure. While the main focus of the conference is on empirical analysis of recent history, contributions which conceptualize the measurement of spatial inequality, or analyze its evolution in a longer historical frame, will also be considered. It is intended to collect the papers selected for and presented to the conference, in a volume to be edited by Professor Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University, and Professor Tony Venables, London School of Economics, and to be published by a leading academic press.
Further details: /newsletter/id/28844
Contact: sk145@cornell.edu
Special Issue of the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
Invitation for Submission of Manuscripts on Health and Equity
The Journal of Health,Population and Nutrition (JHPN) will publish theme-based issues, beginning in its March 2003 Issue to highlight findings of some important emergent research issues from different regions of the world. The first theme-based issue (March 2003) will be on Equity and Health.This special issue may include original research articles on concepts,measurements,and methodological issues, empirical findings on the situation of health equity,and interventions to reduce health inequity Reports on global evaluation,national,or subnational pro-equity activities and the experiences gained by way of impact and the process of implementation are also of interest. Potential authors are requested to express their interest to contribute by writing a note with tentative title of the paper by 30 June 2002.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29062
Contact: jhpn@icddrb.org
Stigma, Denial, Shame and Discrimination: HIV in Africa
HDN is working with UNAIDS to facilitate the development of an operational research agenda on stigma, denial, shame and discrimination in the African region. Activities include a specialised email forum on stigma, group discussions and key informant interviews with health care providers, religious organisations, people living with HIV/AIDS and media in Botswana, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia. A review paper of stigma issues and responses in the Africa region is being developed and a regional consultation meeting will be held from 4-6 June 2001.
Strategic Research Grants, Third Round 2005
Effects of Global Health Initiatives on Health Systems Development
The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research is collaborating with the Systemwide Effects of the Fund (SWEF) Research Network in a process based on a competitive Call for Proposals to support research to assess the effects of global health initiatives on the health systems in recipient countries. This collaboration aims to support research to measure the systemwide effects of global health initiatives - such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GF), the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the World Bank Multi-Country AIDS Program (MAP), and others - on broader health systems in low-income countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, and Eastern Europe.
Strategic Research on Governance, Equity and Health for Eastern and Southern Africa
Call for Letters of Intent: 8 July deadline
The Alliance and the Governance, Equity and Health Program Initiative of the International Development Research Centre, Canada (GEH) invite letters of intent for strategic research in governance, equity and health for Eastern and Southern Africa. Health systems in Africa face special challenges given their development situation, their epidemiological profile and the opportunities to scale up disease control programmes. It is important that the new and larger policy and programme efforts currently being implemented improve the equity and responsiveness of health systems through approaches that strengthen and integrate actions at national and local levels.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29773
Strategic research on the effects of global health initiatives on health systems development
Call for Proposals
The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research was established in November 1999 as an initiative sponsored by the Global Forum for Health Research in collaboration with the World Health Organization. The Alliance aims to promote the generation, dissemination and use of knowledge for enhancing health system performance. One of its objectives is to stimulate the generation and synthesis of knowledge, encompassing evidence, tools and methods. To achieve this objective the Alliance has been undertaking strategic research to develop international knowledge in high priority but neglected or innovative areas, encouraging new policy thinking.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30933