The United Nations University (UNU) is offering sustainability scholarship for outstanding applicants from developing countries undertaking the MSc programme at UNU. The Japan Foundation for UNU (JFUNU) Scholarship is available for outstanding applicants from developing countries who can demonstrate a need for financial assistance. Candidates should have completed a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) from a recognized university or institution of higher education in a field related to sustainability.
Jobs and Announcements
United Nations University Japan Foundation for UNU (JFUNU) Scholarship Programme in Japan
Deadline for applications: 28 February 2018
ICASA 2017: 19th International Conference on AIDS and STDs in Africa
4-9 December 2017, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
The 2017 ICASA conference theme “Africa: Ending AIDS-delivering differently” engages the continent and its stakeholders in the post SDG framework, where sustainability of the response in reaching 90, 90, 90 of UNAIDS will not be possible unless human rights are made a key priority with the application of science based evidence, particularly as commitments are threatened as a result of the global economic downturn. The organisers are anticipating 7 000 -10 000 of the world’s leading scientists, policy makers, activists, PLHIV, government leaders and heads of state and civil society representatives as an opportunity to promote inter-sectoral achievements in the AIDS response and to strengthen the partnership among governments, civil society, and development partners.
Call for abstracts: Health Systems Trust 2018 Conference
9 – 11 May 2018, Birchwood Conference Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa.
The HST 2018 Conference is organised under the theme “Reimagining health systems towards achieving the SDGs” and follows the inaugural 2016 gathering of health systems stakeholders from around South Africa and the rest of the continent. The call for abstracts is now open. In the spirit of leaving no one behind, submissions are invited that discuss challenges faced and solutions adopted at various levels in the health system towards achieving the transformative Sustainable Development Goals agenda.
Call For Papers: African Street Literatures
Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2017
This is an open call for papers for a special issue of English Studies in Africa that will focus on African street literature. This refers to literature that emerges and is shaped by the specific factors determining everyday life in sub-Saharan Africa’s megacities, where new and emergent forms of literary expression dominate cultural circuits and flows. The intensification of social, political, economic, health and environmental precariousness, alongside uneven spurts of economic growth, rapid urbanisation, unprecedented access to technology and global connectivity, and a correlated surge in cultural and aesthetic expression, make African cities concentrated locations of vulnerable modernity. The call thus seeks to give a space for writing that reflects these features of the African city.
Call for participation VII World Social Forum on Health and Social Security, Brazil
Salvador de Bahia Brazil, 10-12 March 2018
The VII World Social Forum on Health and Social Security will be held in Salvador de Bahia Brazil from 10th to 13th of march 2018, immediately before the 11th World Social Forum that will happen from the 13th to the 17h of March. The organisers are inviting suggestions for the definition of contents and methodology of the WSFHSS. Contact armandodenegri@yahoo.com or through the website from the 25th of November 2017. Please look at the invitation video: https://youtu.be/DU_ODDLLaYQ
The 6th Quadriennial General Meeting and the 13th Scientific Conference of the East, Central and Southern Africa College of Nursing (ECSACON)
ECSACON: Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya, 3 – 7 September 2018
The 2018 ECSACON conference follows the theme ‘Nurses and Midwives responding to global agenda on sustainable development goals and universal health coverage’. The conference will focus on quality and affordability of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Services and increasing access to health care including GBV services and SRHR among the youth, nursing and midwifery workforce development to achieve HRH2030 Agenda. The conference will showcase innovations in preparing competent, skilled and motivated nurses and midwives, Nursing and midwifery workforce preparedness to respond to global calls, challenges and/or disasters. The conference will prioritize communicable and NCDs including mental health and nutrition. The call is open to ECSACON Members, Non ECSACON Members from the ECSA region and Non ECSACON Members from outside the region
The United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women
Deadline for applications: 5 December 2017
The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund) awards grants to initiatives that demonstrate that violence against women and girls can be systematically addressed, reduced and, with persistence, eliminated. Civil society organizations are invited to submit grant proposals for a minimum of US$50,000 up to a maximum of US$1 million for a period of three years. Proposals are invited under the following three programmatic areas: (1) Improving access for women and girls to essential, safe and adequate multi-sectoral services to end violence against women and girls; (2) Increasing effectiveness of legislation, policies, national action plans and accountability systems to prevent and end violence against women and girls; and (3) Improving prevention of violence against women and girls through changes in knowledge, attitudes and practices. This year, the UN Trust Fund is also seeking applications that specifically focus on addressing violence against women and girls in the context of the current forced displacement and refugee crisis; or addressing violence against women and girls with disabilities. Applications from women’s rights, women-led, and small women’s organizations are prioritized, in recognition of them being the driving force of the ending violence against women agenda, as well as being at the forefront of reaching women and girls survivors at the grassroots level.
UN Environment Assembly
4-6 December 2017, Nairobi, Kenya
The UN Environment Assembly meeting in 2017 aims to produce a political declaration on pollution, linked to the Sustainable Development Goals, to signal that humanity can work together to eliminate the threat of pollution and the destruction of our planet. There will be resolutions and decisions adopted by Member States to address specific dimensions of pollution and voluntary commitments by Governments, private sector entities and civil society organizations to clean up the planet. The Assembly will also include The #BeatPollution Pledge, a collection of individual commitments to clean up the planet. This year's Assembly will also launch the interactive Leadership Dialogues, which will provide participants with an opportunity for high-level engagement and discussion on how to achieve a pollution-free planet.
9th Alternative Mining Indaba
5th to 7th February 2018, Double Tree by Hilton Upper East Side Hotel Cape Town.
The 9th Alternative Mining Indaba will be held under the theme Making Natural Resources Work for the People: Towards Just Legal, Policy and Institutional Reforms. Attracting several hundred SADC and wider community representatives, civil society organizations, and multi-lateral organizations and other stakeholders it provides a forum to actively participate in discussing and providing viable recommendations for the future of natural resource extraction in Africa. Registration will be opening soon.
Call for abstracts - Fifth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research
Deadline for organised session abstracts 15 January 2018
The call for abstracts for the Fifth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research is now open. The Fifth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research will take place in Liverpool, UK, on 8-12 October 2018. The Fifth Global Symposium will advance conversations and collaborations on new ways of financing health, delivering services and engaging the health workforce, new social and political alliances, and new applications of technologies to promote health for all. Within the overarching Symposium theme, we welcome abstracts linked to the following four sub-themes: 1. The SDGs as a stimulus for renewed multisectoral action; 2. Polemic and pragmatism: engaging the private sector in moving towards universal health coverage; 3. Leaving no one behind: health systems that deliver for all and 4. Community health systems – where community needs are located, but often the invisible level of health systems. The deadline for organized session proposals is the 15 January, 2018 and the deadline for individual abstracts is 5 March, 2018.