The news about the tool for NGOs to adapt to and assess climate change risks has been circulating lately around the world. As attention for addressing climate change increases and more and more NGOs are expected to get involved, this tool can be very handy to understand climate change, environmental … [Read more...] about A Tool for NGOs to adapt to and assess Climate Change risks
Free the Slaves: 2011 Freedom Awards
The Freedom Awards (from Free the Slaves) celebrate heroes of the anti-slavery movement from around the world. These awards are open to organizations and individuals working to eradicate human trafficking and modern-day slavery. The awards will be given out during late 2011. Awardees will be flown … [Read more...] about Free the Slaves: 2011 Freedom Awards
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Award Categories Award to an individual survivor of slavery living outside of the United States: One award will be given to an individual who has survived a form of slavery and is now using his or her life in freedom to help others exercise the purpose of their lives. The award is named the … [Read more...] about Free the Slaves: 2011 Freedom Awards -2
SIDA’s Advanced International Training Programme on the Rights of the Child in Sweden
The Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), as part of its Advanced International Training Programmes has announced the availability of grants to support participants from following countries to attend the “The Rights of the Child – A Practical Approach” with Phase 1 to be held from 4-22 … [Read more...] about SIDA’s Advanced International Training Programme on the Rights of the Child in Sweden
Call for Pre-Proposals: Gender and Citizenship in the Information Society: An Asia-wide Research Program
IT for Change, a nonprofit organization located in India has announced a call for pre-proposals under its Gender and Citizenship in the Information Society, an Asia-wide research program organized with the support of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Individual researchers or … [Read more...] about Call for Pre-Proposals: Gender and Citizenship in the Information Society: An Asia-wide Research Program
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The objectives of the Gender and Citizenship in the Information Society: An Asia-wide Research Program are: to understand how emerging techno-social paradigms, shaped by new information and communication technologies (ICTs), recast the citizenship of marginalised women; to examine the challenges to … [Read more...] about Call for Pre-Proposals: Gender and Citizenship in the Information Society: An Asia-wide Research Program -2
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Applicants should be either at doctoral-level or should have at least 15 years of experience. They should preferably have experience in the fields of gender and development, information society or digital media in the global South. They should also demonstrate their interest in feminist research. … [Read more...] about Call for Pre-Proposals: Gender and Citizenship in the Information Society: An Asia-wide Research Program -3
Mama Cash
Mama Cash is the oldest international women's fund established in the Netherlands in 1983 to support pioneering and innovative women's initiatives around the world. The Fund has been providing funding to advance women and girls' human rights in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America … [Read more...] about Mama Cash
