NGO management courses 2009

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Feb 252009

The NMS course programme March-November 2009 is now open for registration. To learn more about course objectives and course programmes, please click on the course of your interest at www.ngoms.org/coursedates.htm.

For the March-April courses, the early bird deadlines for reduced fees are indicated below.

March-April

Geneva
30 March – 3 April: Essentials of NGO Management (5 days; early bird deadline: March 3)
6-8 April: Project Planning and Management with Logical Framework Approach (3 days; early bird deadline: March 9)
16-17 April: Exit Strategies: Effective Programme Disengagement (2 days; early bird deadline: March 19)
28-30 April: Financial Management for Non-Finance Executives (3 days; early bird deadline: March 31)

May

Geneva
4-5 May: Working Successfully in a Team (2 days)
6-7 May: Building and Leading Effective Teams) (2 days)
11-15 May: Community Stakeholder Engagement (5 days)
18-22 May: Essentials of Human Resource Management) (5 days)
25-29 May: Monitoring and Evaluation (5 days)

Nigeria
Courses in Nigeria are jointly organised with our partner organisation Life Impact Foundation International.

4-8 May, Abuja, Nigeria: Essentials of NGO Management (5 days)
11-15 May, Lagos, Nigeria: Essentials of NGO Management (5 days)

June

Geneva
3-5 June: Financial Management for Non-Finance Executives (3 days)
8-12 June: Essentials of NGO Management (5 days)
15-17 June: Project Planning and Management with Logical Framework Approach (3 days)
18-19 June: Exit Strategies: Effective Programme Disengagement (2 days)

August-September

Geneva
31 August – 4 September: Monitoring and Evaluation (5 days)
7-9 September: Financial Management for Non-Finance Executives (3 days)
14-18 September: Essentials of NGO Management (5 days)
21-22 September: Working Successfully in a Team (2 days)
23-24 September: Building and Leading Effective Teams) (2 days)

October

Geneva
5-9 October: Community Stakeholder Engagement (5 days)
19-21 October: Project Planning and Management with Logical Framework Approach (3 days)
22-23 October: Exit Strategies: Effective Programme Disengagement (2 days)

November

Geneva
2-4 November: Project Proposals for Results (3 days)
9-14 November: Essentials of Human Resource Management) (5 days)

For enquiries, please contact the course organiser at courses@ngomanager.org.

Posted by SL at 1:18 pm AFRICA, AFRICA COUNTRIES, EDUCATION AFRICA, Workshops Seminars Courses Training Africa

Burkina Faso : Information and Communication Technologies for Education

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Feb 232009

The following project is featured on the IICD (International Institution for Communication and Development) website.

This project for the education sector targets twelve secondary schools in the capital and in the provincesn (five in the capital, seven in the provinces). Sixty principals and teachers learn how to better integrate ICT’s in their education cycle. Computers with internet are provided for the teachers and they get technical assistance for learning to use specific computer programs that can aid them in their lessons. Once in full implementation, the project should provide lessons and experiences to be fed into the development of the Education policy of Burkina Faso. Often for this project the acronym TICE is used, this stands for ‘ Technologies de l’Information et de la communication pour l’enseignement au Burkina Faso’ the French title of this project.
Read the full article
Through the project a website TICE BURKINA has been developed by the teachers to provide materials for other teachers.
Read more about IICD’s Burkina Faso Country Programme.
Posted by SL at 1:50 pm AFRICA COUNTRIES, Burkina Faso, TECHNOLOGY AFRICA Tagged with: , ,

Book Review Ethiopia : Painting Ethiopia, The Life and Work of Qes Adamu Tesfaw

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Feb 232009

There’s a review on H-AfrArts list of a book about Ethopian artist Qes Adamu Tesfaw called Painting Ethiopia: The Life and Work of Ques Adamu Tesafaw which in the form of a catalogue and is available from Amazon.com.

Tania Tribe. Review of Silverman, Raymond Aaron, with Qes Adamu Tesfaw, Leah Niederstadt, and Neil W. Sobania, Painting Ethiopia: The Life and Work of Qes Adamu Tesfaw. H-AfrArts, H-Net Reviews. February, 2009.
URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=23479

Here is the blurb from an exhibition of his work in 2005
Qes Adamu Tesfaw is a former priest of the Orthodox Ethiopian Church who left the clergy to paint full time, and was trained in the philosophy and illuminated manuscript tradition of that 1,500 year old religion. His paintings tap the oldest beliefs, customs and current ironies of a land filled with oppositions. Tied to Arabic, African, Muslim, and Christian traditions, in a kind of cultural crossroads, Ethiopia provides this remarkable artist with the subject for scenes of medieval battle, of the English Queen visiting the late Emperor Haile Selassie, of veiled women in a sacred coffee ceremony. The Holy Trinity depicted in the form of fused Siamese twins holding the sacramental bread is simply an amazing image. The style of rendering is superb, and straight from early Christian illuminations–flat, intense, linear, oddly stylized, and full of Life (UCLA/Fowler Museum, West Los Angeles).

Qes Adamu Tesfaw, “St. George and the Dragon,” 1993, oil on cotton cloth, 53 x 68 1/4″.

How to get a copy

Posted by SL at 12:09 pm AFRICA, AFRICA COUNTRIES, Arts and Crafts Africa, Ethiopia

Paper : The role of women in African Traditional Religion

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Feb 232009

Seen on Afrikaworld.net

The following paper present a view of the role of women in Africa according to African Religion as specified by the author, John Mbiti. The paper focusses on mythology, proverbs and prayers.

Read the full article: http://www.afrikaworld.net/afrel/atr-women.htm

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Africa Development Indicators 2008/9

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Feb 212009
Data in Africa Development Indicators 2008/09 have been assembled from a variety of sources to present a broad picture of development across Africa. Data are presented from 1965 to 2006 for 53 African countries and 5 regional country groups, arranged in separate tables or matrices for more than 450 indicators of development covering basic indicators; national accounts; balance of payments; inflation; Millennium Development Goals; Paris Declaration indicators; private sector development; trade; infrastructure; human development; rural development and agriculture; environment and climate change; labor, migration and population; HIV/AIDS; malaria; capable states and partnerships; governance and polity; and household welfare. A few macro indicators have provisional data for 2007 while others indicators have data for 2007-2009.
Download the pdf of the document

Posted by SL at 2:18 pm AFRICA, AFRICA COUNTRIES, Development Africa, ECONOMY AFRICA, EDUCATION AFRICA, Papers & Reports Africa

Free resource : Open Survey Pilot

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Feb 212009

You might be interested in Open Survey Pilot : http://sourceforge.net/projects/osp/, opensource software webbased system for generating and managing online surveys, polls, etc.

This could be useful for conducting research and monitoring and evaluation work.

Posted by SL at 11:49 am EDUCATION AFRICA, Free Resources Africa

Mali : Festival sur le Niger, Segou, 2009

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Feb 202009

The Power of Culture has an article about the yearly festival which takes place in February on the Niger river in Segou, Mali.

The Festival sur le Niger is extremely popular in Mali’s former capital Segou. Unlike the internationally famous photo biennial in Bamako, which many Malians consider to be an event for the elite, this is a true folk festival. The important concerts are held in the evening on a floating stage on the Niger, Mali’s life line. During the day musical and dance performances are given on the banks of the river and on various city squares, and concerts are also held throughout the city in the evening.

Read the full article

Posted by SL at 11:06 am AFRICA, AFRICA COUNTRIES, CULTURE AFRICA, Mali, Media Africa, Music Africa, Performing Arts Africa

Potential of Traditional Medicine should be Fostered, Economic and Social Council

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Feb 172009

A recent press release from the UN Economic and Social Council 2009 Organizational Session Panel Discussion (PM reports on the discussion about fostering the potential of traditional medicine in developing countries. Several issues were raised, particularly the integration of traditional medicine into main stream medicine and the legal protection and mainstreaming of traditional medicines. The development of a ‘traditional knowledge digital library’ in India which is ‘a database containing 30 million pages of scientific formulas derived from traditional medicinal substances’ was of particular interest.

The library’s creator further believed that traditional medicines would be prone to misappropriation by third parties if they were not properly codified, Mr. Rao said. Moreover, he believed that a central database would engender wider use of the medicines contained within it, while helping to preserve the attendant knowledge and skills associated with producing those medicines. The scientific formulas contained in the digital library were comparable to modern medical formulations, and were based on information gleaned from old texts. The library was the product of several hundred scientists. He said the digital library was now being used to facilitate international trade negotiations between India and other countries. So far, the Indian Government had reached an agreement with the European Patent Office so that herbal medicines originating from India could not be patented in Europe without first referring to the database. Negotiations on a similar arrangement with the United States Trademark and Patent Office were currently ongoing. He also said that access to information from the digital library was helping to lower the cost of producing medicines — for example, medicine to treat psoriasis was being produced at a cost of $50 per patient per year, as compared to $20,000 per patient through conventional means. The concept of a digital library for traditional knowledge was currently under consideration by authorities in South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Nigeria, Malaysia as well as countries of the Middle East.

Read the full report

Posted by SL at 11:25 pm AFRICA, AFRICA COUNTRIES, EDUCATION AFRICA, HEALTH AFRICA, Papers & Reports Africa

Mali : Nearly 600 Malian rebels disarm in the north

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Feb 172009

A report on AlertNet gives hope that the longstanding rebellion in the north of Mali may be ending, but hopes have been dashed before.

BAMAKO, Feb 17 (Reuters) – Nearly 600 rebels laid down their weapons in northern Mali on Tuesday, state radio reported, in the latest sign that military pressure and Algerian mediation may be helping end a rebellion led by Tuareg nomads. Algeria has brokered several agreements between Mali’s government and the rebels, who are calling for greater autonomy and development in the north, but the latest progress follows a military offensive launched last month against rebel bases.

Read the full story

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African paper : Small and medium forest enterprises in Mozambique

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Feb 172009


(IIED, January 2009)
Small and medium forest enterprises (SMFEs) in Mozambique account for 95.8% of the formally registered enterprises in the forest sector. Despite their significance to the economy SMFEs are poorly catered for by national policies. At present, the two formal channels for commercial timber production are inaccessible to community-based SMFEs that might bring about greater sustainability and poverty reduction. Legislation still views community based natural resource management as a process of subservient partnership between external forest enterprises and community management committees. Despite these challenges, there are a wide range of Mozambican programmes spanning government, civil society and private sector initiatives that support SMFEs. This report argues that a more coordinated effort is urgently needed between these programmes to develop business skills and capacity among SMFEs. http://www.iied.org/pubs/display.php?o=13546IIED

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