By fundsforngos, on August 3rd, 2010% NGOs, governmental agencies, multilateral organizations, research firms and academic institutes in the Sub-Saharan Africa can submit proposals for the Inaugural Call for Proposals: Youth Entrepreneurship under the Fund for Evaluation in Youth Employment. The Fund has been set up by the Youth Employment Network (YEN) with the support of the Danish sponsored Africa . . . → Read More: Youth Entrepreneurship Inaugural Call for Proposals under the Fund for Evaluation in Youth Employment
By fundsforngos, on July 5th, 2010% The European Commission’s call for proposals to fight child labour has an overall objective of contributing towards eradicating child labour. Specifically, it seeks to “promote effective policy dialogue aimed at eradicating child labour, bringing victims of child labour, trafficking or violence into full-time quality education/vocational-education training and reintegrating them into society” and “to . . . → Read More: Objectives and Priorities: Fighting Child Labour -EC Call for Proposals
By fundsforngos, on June 3rd, 2010% The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Microinsurance Innovation Facility (MIF) has announced the availability of third round of research grants “on a competitive basis for academics, particularly from developing countries, to analyze various microinsurance issues. Besides answering key questions in the Facility’s research agenda” MIF has teamed up with the European Development Research Network . . . → Read More: Grants for Research on Microinsurance Issues
By fundsforngos, on June 3rd, 2010% The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Microinsurance Innovation Facility (MIF) in partnership with the European Development Research Network (EUDN) is inviting academics and researchers to submit expressions of interest for research fellowships. There are up to five research fellowships available and these will be awarded on a competitive basis.
The research fellows . . . → Read More: Microinsurance Innovation Facility’s Call for Expressions of Interests for Research Fellowships
By fundsforngos, on April 19th, 2010% “The call for applications for the 3rd edition of the Master programme on “World Heritage at Work”, offered by the University of Turin, the Polytechnic of Turin and the International Training Centre of ILO, in collaboration with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, is now open.
The programme is intended for professionals . . . → Read More: Master in World Heritage at Work: Cultural Projects in Development
By fundsforngos, on December 9th, 2009% Insurance is a kind of a financial service whereby clients pay a premium on regular basis in return for reimbursement at higher rate when a risk occurs. In principle, it is one of the risk management tools to counter the losses suffered from a crisis. It is a pool of resources developed by . . . → Read More: What is Microinsurance?
By fundsforngos, on December 9th, 2009% The Microinsurance Innovation Facility, housed at the International Labour Organization’s Social Finance Programme has announced the availability of grants to “support organisations to develop innovations in the microinsurance sector. The grants can support insurance against any type of risk, but priority is given to products where demand exceeds supply, such as agriculture, health, . . . → Read More: Innovation Grants from ILO
By fundsforngos, on December 9th, 2009% The term, “Informal Economy” was first used by Keith Hart (Informal Income Opportunities and Urban Employment in Ghana” in Journal of Modern African Studies) during the 1970s to describe the temporary economic strategies adopted by migrant workers in Ghana. Over time, various definitions have come into place.
ILO’s Kenya Report (Employment incomes and . . . → Read More: What is Informal Economy?
By fundsforngos, on July 5th, 2009% Academics from developing countries can apply for small grants available from ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility to undertake research in microinsurance. The second round of research grants is now open and accepting applications. It is developed in partnership with the European Development Research Network and mainly focused on developing countries only.
Researchers need to . . . → Read More: Research Grants for Microinsurance from ILO
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