AFRO-NETS> The Drum Beat - 117 - Awards/Fellowships/Scholarships

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The Drum Beat - 117 - Awards/Fellowships/Scholarships
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http://www.comminit.com/awards.html

A number of Awards, Fellowships and Scholarships are listed below. 
Click on the links provided for more information. The full listing of 
these can be found at:
http://www.comminit.com/awards.html 

Details are included in the full descriptions including: the prize, 
criteria, deadlines and previous winners. Most awards are repeated 
annually.

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1. Annual White Ribbon Contest - Safe Motherhood
http://www.comminit.com/awards/sld-3136.html

Design an awareness-raising campaign at the community, policy or 
health-service-delivery level. Winning campaigns will be used as mod-
els to promote safe motherhood and may be replicated in other regions 
of the world. Purpose is to encourage people to use the white ribbon 
to raise awareness about maternal mortality and to inspire action to 
reduce these deaths.
Contact Efua Orleans-Lindsay <eorleans-lindsay@globalhealth.org>


2. Michener - Deacon Fellowship - Journalism
http://www.comminit.com/Fellowships/sld-1511.html

Fellowship provides US$ 20,000, for study-leave over a 4 month pe-
riod. Applicants should be mature journalists interested in studies 
or programmes that benefit the community at large and at the same 
time enhance their competence. 
Contact <info@michenerawards.ca>


3. Green Ribbon Award - Environment
http://www.comminit.com/awards/sld-3130.html

Presented by the Minister for the Environment to recognise out-
standing contributions by individuals, organisations or businesses to 
addressing some of New Zealand's environmental problems.
Contact <publications@mfe.govt.nz>


4. SAIS - Novartis International Journalism Awards Programme - Jour-
nalism
http://www.comminit.com/awards/sld-3139.html

Annual prize of a $15,000 cash award and an expense-paid trip to 
Washington DC presented by The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced In-
ternational Studies and Novartis. Journalists from around the world 
are invited to compete in competition for excellence in international 
journalism. 
Contact <Intl.prize@jhu.edu>


5. Citizen Base Award - Local Resources
http://www.comminit.com/awards/sld-1817.html

An international challenge competition providing seed capital to NGOs 
for innovation in local resource mobilisation offered by The Citizen 
Base Initiative, a programme of Ashoka, aims to spark, identify and 
support local resource mobilisation as an alternative to interna-
tional fundraising. 
Contact Citizen Base Award <cbisa@ashoka.org>


6. Research Training Grants 2002 - Health
http://www.comminit.com/Scholarships/sld-3120.html

Applicants for the Grants offered by the UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special 
Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases must be na-
tionals of, and employed in, the developing disease endemic coun-
tries. Grants are awarded for studies leading to a postgraduate de-
gree or for acquiring specialized skills. Studies must be on one or 
more of the TDR target diseases (listed in details).
Contact Steven Wayling <waylings@who.int>


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Market your Training Events, Conferences, Major Events, Materials, 
Publications, and Consultant Services - Next issue November 7 2001.

For more information or to include something in the DB Classifieds in 
the future, please contact Janice Innes <jinnes@comminit.com>

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7. Annual Global Health Photography Contest - Health
http://www.comminit.com/awards/sld-2597.html

Amateurs and professionals are invited to submit selections of their 
work, illustrating the theme of the Global Health Council's annual 
conference. The theme for the 2002 conference is Global Health in 
Times of Crisis. 
Contact Terry Fisher <tfisher@globalhealth.org>


8. UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Prize - Freedom of the Press
http://www.comminit.com/awards/sld-2200.html

Annual prize of US$ 25,000 to honor a person, organisation or insti-
tution that has made an outstanding contribution to the defence 
and/or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, especially 
if some risk was involved. 
Contact <s.coudray@unesco.org>


9. Global 500 Award - Youth Journalism on the Environment
http://www.comminit.com/awards/sld-2599.html

News reports written by young people (up to age 19) will be published 
and distributed worldwide by the Environment News Service. Stories 
cover anything that affects the well being of the Earth and its in-
habitants. Articles must be in by the first of each month.
Contact ENS/Horizon Youth Environmental News Desk <news@ens-news.com>


10. Múcio Athayde Cancer Prize - Health
http://www.comminit.com/awards/sld-3048.html

US$ 100,000 will be awarded to a medically or scientifically quali-
fied Candidate who has made a major discovery or significant contri-
bution with a global impact in basic research or clinical investiga-
tion, in cancer control or epidemiology.
Contact: <info@uicc.org>


11. Stockholm Challenge Award - New Technologies
http://www.comminit.com/awards/sld-1494.html

Annual award inviting cities and organisations worldwide to partici-
pate in a contest that focuses on the benefit of High Tech. The es-
sence of the Challenge is to reduce barriers and make information 
available. Submit IT-projects, which engage and inform people offer-
ing them a new way to develop and improve their common life.
Contact Alix Porsenna <alix.porsenna@challenge.stockholm.se>


12. The Gates Award for Global Health - Health
http://www.comminit.com/awards/sld-2596.html

Annual prize of US$ 1 million presented to an organisation that has 
made an extraordinary, sustained and widespread contribution in the 
field of global health.
Contact Terry Fisher <tfisher@globalhealth.org>


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Please send us information about Awards we have not yet listed on the 
site.
Contact Janice Innes <jinnes@comminit.com>

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13. 1st Annual Media for Development Celebration & Awards Event - Me-
dia
http://www.comminit.com/awards/sld-2972.html

Recognising humanitarian media, celebrating and supporting the aware-
ness and contributions of filmmakers, TV and radio producers, jour-
nalists, internet publishers and designers and traditional publishers 
working across the Humanitarian sector. 
Contact Robert Winter <MediaforDevelopment@excite.co.uk>


14. International Youth In Action Award - Youth
http://www.comminit.com/awards/sld-1492.html

Open to young people (under 25) who have started a project anywhere 
in the world that has positively impacted their community. Cash prize 
of $1,000 has been offered for the award by UNESCO's InfoYOUTH Net-
work and Prodigy Internet, which aim to provide greater recognition 
for young people's positive contributions.
Contact <info@takingitglobal.org>


15. International Women's Media Foundation's Courage in Journalism 
Award - Journalism
http://www.comminit.com/awards/sld-1489.html

Award honors women journalists with a US$ 2,000 cash prize for demon-
strating extraordinary strength of character in pursuing their craft 
under difficult or dangerous circumstances - physical danger, offi-
cial secrecy or oppression, political pressure, or any other profes-
sionally intimidating obstacles. 
Contact Amy Johnson <ajohnson@iwmf.org>


16. Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize - Rights
http://www.comminit.com/awards/sld-1995.html

Annual prize of US$ 1 million awarded to an organisation making ex-
traordinary contributions toward alleviating human suffering anywhere 
in the world. 
Contact <Prize@HiltonFoundation.org>


17. Langley Award - Tobacco
http://www.comminit.com/awards/sld-3133.html

Honoring scientists who have made ground-breaking advances in basic 
nicotine research in one of three areas: pharmacology, neuroscience, 
or genetics. US$ 2,000 prize, recognition at the meeting, and an ex-
pense-paid trip to the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 
Annual Meeting to present a plenary lecture on the applicant's re-
search awarded once every 3 years by the Society for Research on 
Nicotine and Tobacco.
Contact <SRNT@tmahq.com>


18. Starr Fellowships for Mid-Career Journalists - Journalism
http://www.comminit.com/Fellowships/sld-3121.html

Mid-career journalists, and other professional, from developing coun-
tries in Eastern Europe, Russia, the former Soviet Republics, South 
Asia, Latin America and Africa can apply for 3 fellowships, awarded 
by George Washington University's Elliott School of International Af-
fairs, to pursue the Master of International Policy and Practice. 
Supported by a grant from the Starr Foundation, the fellowships cover 
tuition, fees, and a living stipend for total value of approximately 
US$ 35,000.
Contact Office of Graduate Admissions, George Washington University 
<mipp@gwu.edu>


19. Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award - Rights
http://www.comminit.com/awards/sld-3138.html

Annual prize of US$ 30,000 awarded to individuals who, at great per-
sonal risk, stand up to oppression in the nonviolent pursuit of re-
spect for human rights.
Contact Margaret Huang <hrcenter@rfkmemorial.org>

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This issue compiled by Janice Innes <jinnes@comminit.com>

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