AFRO-NETS> DB Classifieds - Dec 6, 2001 - Training, Books, Events, Consultants

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DB Classifieds - Dec 6, 2001 - Training, Books, Events, Consultants
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TRAINING

1. Continental Conflict Transformation Course (Feb 4 - Mar 8 2002) - 
Johannesburg - South Africa

Purpose includes: Identify the origins and causes of new and ongoing 
conflicts in various parts of Africa; Examine the causes of these 
conflicts in order to understand more clearly the dynamics of the 
various factors and forces, and the relationship between peace and 
development; Support and strengthen skills for facilitating dia-
logue,including communication and facilitation skills, negotiation, 
mediation and arbitration

http://www.comminit.com/events_cal/2002/604-event.html
Contact: <copa@barclays.africaonline.com>


2. Community-Based Health Education & Health Promotion (Apr 15 - Jun 
21 2002) - Leeds, United Kingdom

10 week course is targeted at experienced managers and field staff 
from developing countries who are requiring a short course to improve 
their capacity to plan, implement and manage communication/health 
promotion components of projects.

http://www.comminit.com/events_cal/2002/572-event.html
Contact: <health-promotion@lmu.ac.uk> or <john@hubley.co.uk>


3. International Course on Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation 
(Feb 28 - Mar 2 2002 - Preparatory Session - and Mar 4-22 2002) - Si-
lang - The Philippines

Designed for development project executives, research study leaders 
and extension officers who have been managing and/or implementing 
community-based development. It examines PM&E at the community, pro-
gramme and organisational levels. 

http://www.comminit.com/events_cal/2002/617-event.html
Contact: <Education&Training@iirr.org>


4. Development Studies Course (Apr 20 - Jul 6 2002) Birmingham, UK 
 
Designed to meet the needs of people working in non-government and 
international aid organisations as well as government departments. 
Themes include: Understanding poverty, & the processes of underdevel-
opment & development; Reviewing social & human development & social 
policy issues in developing countries; and, Examining possibilities 
for social, political & economic changes at all levels.

http://www.comminit.com/events_cal/2002/551-event.html
Contact: <w.banner@bham.ac.uk>

 
5. Training Programme in International Health - PAHO

Promotes leadership in international health by enabling participants 
to develop:
a broader vision of the evolution of international and regional 
health trends; a capacity for critical thinking on the main trends 
and challenges facing countries today; and. a more profound under-
standing of, and capacity for, action in international cooperation in 
health

http://www.comminit.com/Training/sld-3321.html
Contact:
http://www.paho.org/English/HSP/HSR/pfsiabout.htm#description


6. International Course on NGO Leadership, Development and Social 
Change - January 21 - February 8 2002 - The Philippines

A three-week seminar that enables NGO leaders and managers to develop 
and refine core competencies strategic to managing development or-
ganisations in an era of rapid globalisation. Individual and team 
learning are enhanced by internet-based learning and state-of-the-art 
conferencing and course management applications allow participants to 
work 'virtually' with other learners in Bangladesh, Peru and the USA.

http://www.comminit.com/Training/sld-3319.html
Contact: <Education&Training@iirr.org>


MATERIALS

7. Latin Politics, Global Media - Elizabeth Fox and Silvio Waisbord 
(Eds) - University of Texas Press 

Investigates the interaction of local politics and global media in 
individual Latin American countries. 

http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-3490.html
Contact: <utpress@uts.cc.utexas.edu>


8. Children in our Midst: Voices of Farmworkers' Children - compiled 
by Irene McCartney - Weaver Press

Brings together the voices of several hundred children in Zimbabwe 
collected through essays and interviews. 

http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-3489.html
Contact: <weaver@africaonline.co.zw> 


9. Abandoning Female Genital Cutting - Population Reference Bureau

Presents an overview and recent statistics about the practice of Fe-
male Genital Cutting, a summary of Female Genital Cutting abandonment 
approaches, and a brief discussion of projects in four countries. 

http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-3479.html
Contact: <measure@prb.org>


10. Tradition and Change in the Nicaraguan Press: Newspapers and 
Journalists in a New Democratic Era - by Kris P. Kodrich - University 
Press of America

A study of how journalists in Nicaragua are overcoming political and 
economic barriers...examines journalists' behaviors and attitudes and 
measures the professional and ethical impact of foreign influences...

http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-3486.html
Contact: http://www.univpress.com/Catalog/


11. Condom Social Marketing: Selected Case Studies - UNAIDS

Presents six applications of different social marketing techniques 
drawn from on-going projects in developing countries in the field of 
reproductive health and prevention of HIV/AIDS and STD's. 

http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-3481.html
Contact: <unaids@unaids.org>


12. Expanding Community Action on HIV/AIDS - Alliance and Positive 
Action

Includes approaches to the HIV/AIDS pandemic over the past twenty 
years that work...from successful small-scale projects that reach 
relatively few individuals to effective strategies that really make 
an impact on the pandemic. 

http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-3482.html
Contact: <mail@aidsalliance.org>


13. Gender, Land, and Livelihoods in East Africa Through Farmers' 
Eyes - by Ritu Verma - IDRC

Examines 'the complexity of women's lives as they struggle to sustain 
their soils and their livelihoods in a difficult political-economic 
environment'.

http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-3491.html
Contact: <pub@idrc.ca> 


14. Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth - by Lester R. 
Brown - Earth Policy Institute 

Is the environment part of the economy or is the economy part of the 
environment? 

http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-3385.html
Contact: <epi@earth-policy.org>
 

15. Media Coverage of Women and HIV/AIDS

A report on the impact of HIV/AIDS on women and girls, as seen by fe-
male journalists in developing nations... contains a collection of 
articles and scripts by journalists from Costa Rica, Ghana, India, 
Kenya, Nepal, Philippines, and Romania. 

http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-3416.html


ELECTRONIC MAGAZINES
http://www.comminit.com/e-zines.html

16. CyberVoice - Bangladesh web based magazine

Politics, Environment, Business, Technology and Development news in 
Bangladesh 

http://www.cybervoice-bd.net/index.html 
Contact <ntasnim@mail.virtualave.net>


17. The Evaluation Exchange 

A forum for dialogue among policy-makers, programme practitioners, 
educators & evaluators.
Published by Harvard Family Research Project

http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~hfrp/eval.html
Contact <hfrp_pubs@gse.harvard.edu>


18. BATIK 

Bulletin d'Analyse sur les Technologies de l'Information et de la 
Communication. Lettre d'information ?lectronique mensuelle publi?e 
par OSIRIS l'Observatoire sur les Syst?mes d'Information, les R?seaux 
et les Inforoutes au S?n?gal.

Contact <osagna@osiris.sn>


19. Balancing Act News Update 

Weekly e-letter covering African internet content & infrastructure 
development

http://www.balancingact-africa.com/
Contact <info@balancingact-africa.com> - subject "subscribe" 


20. PLANetWIRE 

Twice-monthly media analysis; writing on trends in coverage on inter-
national family planning, population, development, & reproductive 
health issues. Published by Family Planet.

http://www.planetwire.org/
Contact <popmedia@ccmc.org>


21. Media Update - Zimbabwe

Goal is balance & fairness in news & current affairs, accuracy & im-
partiality in voter education & equity in political advertising & di-
rect access programming. Published by Media Monitoring Project Zim-
babwee (MMPZ)

http://www.comminit.com/e-zines.html#political
Contact <monitors@icon.co.zw>


22. Agenda Feminist Media - South Africa

Quarterly journal published by a women's media project in South Af-
rica - Agenda

http://www.agenda.org.za/
Contact <subs@agenda.org.za>

For summaries and links to many other electronic magazines please go 
to 
http://www.comminit.com/e-zines.html

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VACANCIES
http://www.comminit.com/vacancies.html

12 new posts at http://www.comminit.com/vacancies.html

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cancies', please contact Carey Hooge <chooge@comminit.com>

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for CONFERENCES and other EVENTS please see an extensive listing on 
http://www.comminit.com/2001-events.html

Contact Jancie Innes <jinnes@comminit.com> for information on posting 
your events.

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CONSULTANTS
http://www.comminit.com/exchange.html

Details on 250 plus consultants at 
http://www.comminit.com/exchange.html

To communicate your consultancy work through DB Classifieds please 
contact Janice Innes <jinnes@comminit.com>

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