Now in its 3rd year, the Aid & Development Africa Summit returns to Nairobi, Kenya on 27-28 February 2018, uniting humanitarian and development leaders, decision makers and advisors from NGOs, government and UN agencies and the private sector. The Summit will look into latest policy and project updates, best practice and innovations to improve humanitarian aid operations and infrastructure resilience in sub-Saharan East Africa. Participants will gain first hand insights from development banks, donors and government agencies into their financing priorities and funding guidelines as well as benefit from networking opportunities. The agenda is being developed in consultation with key organisations, such as WFP, IRFC, World Vision, USAID, UNICEF, World Bank, Save the Children, UN Habitat, CRS, FHI360, Oxfam, Habitat for Humanity International, IRD and will include case studies, panel discussions, workshops, and interactive roundtable sessions.
Jobs and Announcements
The Community Chest and Cornerstone Institute invite activist and development practitioners to apply for a scholarship to undertake a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Community Development at Cornerstone Institute. The scholarship provides for 70% of the tuition fee for the programme. Applicants are encouraged to secure the remainder of the fees from non-governmental organisations working in social development.
Theorising Africa seeks to explore what it means to be human, to be a member of society, through the exploration of identity, aesthetics, and politics by placing cultural theory and African epistemic frameworks in dialogue. For this seminar series, conveners at The University of Leeds are interested in looking to Africa for its history of ideas: How has African thought transcended boundaries and how can it continue to do so? What can African thought contribute to the many blind spots in the fields of cultural theory? How can these contributions account for the work of knowledge-making? In what ways are these contributions necessary? The conveners seek papers and proposals on topics including, but not limited to: African literary theory; Reframing the history of ideas – philosophical interrogations; Cultural analysis; Psychoanalysis; African Futures; Law; Politics and bio-violence; Feminisms and policy; Community building; The creaturely; Animism; Theology; Art History; Challenges to the legacy of the writer; Any non-conforming inquiry which doesn’t fall into a field. Proposals (max 300 words + bio) in Word format are to be sent to findingpocoafrica@gmail.com
The Nordic Africa Institute’s African Scholar Program is targeted at researchers based in Africa who need time and a conducive environment for finishing and writing up their ongoing research. It offers a Senior Researcher position at the Nordic Africa Institute for 12 months. The Institute is looking for a qualified researcher from African universities and research institutions with demonstrable research interest. The successful candidate might use the period of his/her employment to complete on-going research, develop new research projects, or complete articles, books or monograph manuscripts. The scholar-researcher should take advantage of the intellectual and logistical resources of the institute and is expected to contribute meaningfully towards actualizing its vision and mandate in return.
The South African Health Review (SAHR) is an accredited peer reviewed publication, widely respected as an authoritative source of research, analysis and reflection on health systems.
The editorial team of the 2018 SAHR is currently seeking abstracts that give consideration to advances made in the health system over the past 21 years, and reflect on areas of improvement for the future. In particular, abstracts that address the following range of topics are requested: Human resources for health, responses to the prevention and management of non-communicable diseases; and progress and challenges towards implementing universal health coverage. Preference will be given to manuscripts that offer critical review of the implementation of policies and programmes in the health sector and that give examples of good practices and multisectoral partnerships with demonstrated effectiveness, or of implementation and scale-up of initiatives designed to strengthen the health system. Abstracts should be submitted to: sahr@hst.org.za
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.
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.
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.
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.
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