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Grant Opportunity by Maternal Newborn and Child Health Activity Agency for International Development Zambia USAID-Lusaka

Deadline: 17 February 2015

The United States Government (USG) represented by the U.S agency for Intenational Development mission in Zambia is requesting for applications for the Maternal Newborn and Child Health Project from eligible and qualified indigenous Zambian non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

As per the availability of fund, USAID/Zambia intends to award a cooperative agreement of 4 years with maximum grant up to $7,500,000 USD. The program will start from May 2015 for a five year period.

This program is designed to reduce maternal mortality and newborn mortality by 35% in 3 districts in Zambia. The program will be responsible for phase II of the Saving Mothers, Giving Life (SMGL) initiative.

Eligibility Criteria

An Applicant must be a Local Civil Society Organization (CSO), Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), business, or educational institution that is: Organized under Zambian laws, has the principal place of business in Zambia, is majority owned (in the case of businesses) or controlled (in the case of NGO or CSO Boards) by citizens or lawful permanent residents of Zambia, and is not majority controlled by foreign entities or individuals.
Each organization can submit only one application.
USAID encourages applications from organizations with no prior experience working with USAID.
Recipients will not be responsible for cost share.

How to Apply

In frist phase, applicants have to submit content and form of concept paper via e-mail.
In second phase, only selected applicants will have to submit full application.

For more information, visit grants.gov and search for funding opportunity number – RFA-611-15-000001.

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Job at UNDP : Development Researcher and Writer – Home-based

Application Deadline : 13 Feb 2013

Starting Date : 25 Feb 2013 (date when the selected candidate is expected to start)

UNDP is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Development Researcher and Writer. This is home-based job and the duration of initial contract is 7 months. Fluency in English is a must. Working knowledge of reading in Spanish and/or French would be considered as asset.

Qualifications and Experience :

Master’s degree in the following relevant fields: social or political science, international development, journalism, public relations, or related field.

Minimum 3 years relevant experience at the national and/or international level working with well recognized universities, research institutes and/or development organizations;
Demonstrated experience producing analytical written pieces on development issues that are concise and convincing;
Experience interacting with, researching or managing international development initiatives
Demonstrated experience with and understanding/knowledge of development issues, particularly those related to poverty reduction, inequality and the MDGs
Demonstrated experience writing academic or development oriented policy papers, project proposals and/or development reports for reputable international organizations.
Professional experience conducting research on developing issues
Web editing experience Drupal would be an asset
Proficient in the use of computers and office software packages.

Language:

Fluency in English.
Working knowledge of reading in Spanish and/or French would be considered as asset.

Incomplete applications or applications received after the closing date will not be given consideration. Please note that only applicants who are shorted-listed will be contacted.

The Secretariat will cross check previous work experience and expertise.

If shortlisted the Secretariat may ask the applicant to share one or several of his/her previous works to assess competencies and skills of the applicant.

For more information visit this link.

Job at IDRC:Communications & Public Relations Officer – Nairobi-Kenya

Deadline: 1 Feb 2013

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Canada has invited applications from qualified and suitable applicants for the job/vacancy of Communications and Public Relations Officer. The location of this job will be based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Education

Master’s degree or equivalent experience in communication, journalism, popularization of science and with considerable experience in a research and/or international development environment OR Master’s degree in social sciences or international development with relevant experience in communications and/or journalism

Experience

Position requires at least five years’ track record of relevant communications and public relations work as well as experience in a research-related setting which includes:
preparing and implementing communications plans to support program and project activities;
identifying and analyzing issues to provide strategic advice regarding communications and public relations approaches, activities and products;
building and maintaining collaborative relationships;
developing, writing and implementing a wide range of communications and public relations products using a variety of media including multimedia, web and social media;
organizing special events and activities to disseminate or promote program and project information and results;
coordinating media relations, representing an organization and acting as spokesperson; and
working experience in French-speaking African regions is an asset.

Language

Bilingual position (English/French) requiring oral and written fluency at an advanced level in both languages

Knowledge

Sound understanding of principles and practices of communications, public relations, marketing and promotions
Knowledge of international development and IDRC’s mandate

Competencies

Superior interpersonal and interactive communication skills
Excellent writing and editing skills including meticulous attention to details
Strong analytical, decision-making and project management skills
Ability to manage projects while maintaining quality and meeting deadlines, budget and client needs
Ability to partner and network to build and maintain collaborative relationships with internal and external clients
Ability to work effectively in a team demonstrating initiative and creativity
Ability to work under pressure and with minimum supervision
Flexible and adaptable with ability to respond quickly to unanticipated demands
Diplomacy, tact and collegiality

How to Apply

Please email your curriculum vitae and supporting cover letter highlighting how your experience, qualifications and skills match the requirements for this position to our Regional Office for Sub-Saharan Africa at: [email protected]

For more info please visit this link.

Care USA Requires Deputy Director – Learning Tours – Washington

Date Posted: 16 Jan 2013

Applications are invited by Care USA from qualified and deserving candidates for the job/vacancy of Deputy Director, Learning Tours. Location of this job is Washington-US. Kindly note that job type is full time, Accompanied – Family and requires upto 40% travel.

Responsibilities:

• Project management;

• Manage and support Program Manager and Program Officer;

• Serve and Represent as a leader of the Global Advocacy Initiatives team;

• Follow-up Advocacy Coordination;

• Budget Management.

Required:

• Bachelors degree in political science, international affairs, international development or a related field;

• At least 7 years of experience with a background in both advocacy and development;

• Experience in managing projects in a complex, international organization;

• Experience in managing people;

• Experience with political and/or social change advocacy campaigns;

• Experience planning and managing Congressional delegation travel and/or other VIP travel overseas

• Experience getting things done without direct line management authority;

• Experience with and knowledge of how USG policy is made and implemented;

• Experience developing and managing partnerships and alliances;

• Advanced written and oral communication skills;

• Excellent planning and implementation skills;

• Budget management;

• Knowledge and understanding of the U.S. legislative process;

• Knowledge and understanding of policy issues related to CARE’s mission;

• Word processing, Outlook, Powerpoint, internet skills;

• Interest in and willingness to travel;

• Database management skills;

• Facilitation and training skills.

Desired:

• Master’s Degree in relevant field;

• Experience doing advance work for political campaigns;

• General familiarity with U.S. ethics laws and lobbying regulations related to nonprofit organizations;

• Experience with PeopleSoft;

• Fundraising: Working with and relationships with funders.

How to Apply

Online

For more information please visit this link.

Applications invited for Annual Summer Photo Competition

Deadline- 3rd of August 2012

International Summer Photo Competition is organized which offers Fantastic prizes and a great way to profile applicants photos photos.

Rules-

Applicant’s photo must pertain to international development, entry is free, and there are some great prizes to be won! Pictures with the most Facebook likes win prizes.

For more information, visit this link

Round 2 of the CDKN Innovation Fund open for Africa

The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) Innovation Fund is flexible to catalyze a range of different project types, scales of operation and stages of development. This fund is designed as an open competitive mechanism to offer fast-moving support for creative initiatives in the field of climate change and international development. The Fund has now launched the Round 2 which will provide support to innovative projects in Africa.

Round 2 is now structured around support for partnership in designing and developing projects on climate compatible development, through an innovation process. Potential outputs from this process could include a “game-changing” (defined as: ‘an event, idea, or procedure that effects a significant shift in the current way of doing or thinking about something’) project proposal, learning materials, best practice tool kits, policy briefs and an implementation road map.

Round 2 will support two (2) innovation process awards of up to GBP100,000 each. Subsequently CDKN may provide awards of up to GBP200,000 each to support the implementation of high-quality results from the innovation processes.

Deadline: 31st August 2012 at 17:00 (GMT+1)

For further information, visit the link.

The University of Edinburgh seeks Applications for Global Development Academy Master’s Scholarships

University of Edinburgh is one of the world-leading centres of academic excellence which aims to create and disseminate knowledge for the people. The university offers the best quality learning environment for the greater well-being of the students. The university also wishes to enhance its position as one of the world’s leading research and teaching universities.

The University of Edinburgh is currently inviting applications for Edinburgh Global Development Academy Master’s Scholarships from eligible candidates in select countries. The University will offer 2 Master’s scholarships covering the overseas rate of fee for students from less developed countries and 2 Master’s scholarships covering the “home” rate of tuition fee for UK/EU students for eligible Master’s programmes offered by the University.

Scholarship Provisions

Each scholarship for students from less developed countries will cover the overseas rate of tuition fee, while further two scholarships will cover the UK/EU rate of tuition fee only.

Programs of Study

Scholarships will be available for students pursuing one of the following Global Development Academy programmes:

MSc Africa and International Development
MSc Environment and Development
MSc International Development
MSc Science, Technology and International Development
MSc South Asia and International Development

Eligibility Criteria

The scholarships covering the overseas rate of fee will be awarded to students who are accepted for admission onto an eligible Global Development Academy programme at the University of Edinburgh. Applicants must be both nationals of and resident in the countries eligible.

Eligible Countries

Afghanistan; Angola; Bangladesh; Benin; Bhutan; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cambodia; Cape Verde; Central African Republic; Chad; Comoros; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Djibouti; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea;
Ethiopia; Gambia; Guinea; Guinea Bissau; Haiti; Kribati; Lao People’s Democratic Republic; Lesotho; Liberia;
Madagascar; Malawi; Maldives; Mali; Mauritania; Mozambique; Myanmar; Nepal; Niger; Rwanda; Samoa; Sao Tome and Principe; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Solomon Islands; Somalia; Sudan; Timor-Leste; Togo; Tuvalu; Uganda; United Republic of Tanzania; Vanuatu; Yemen; Zambia; Zimbabwe;

Countries listed above are defined as least developed nations by the United Nations Composition of macro geographical (continental) regions, geographical sub-regions, and selected economic and other groupings.

Selection Criteria

The scholarship will be awarded on the basis of academic merit. Candidates must have, or expect to obtain, a UK first class or 2:1 Honours degree at undergraduate level or the international equivalent.

Last date for submitting the applications is April 2, 2012.

For more information, visit this link.

Reconsidering Development E-Journal seeks Entries focusing on Institutions for its Third Issue in a Variety of Formats

Reconsidering Development, an interdisciplinary E-journal based at the University of Minnesota, is currently seeking submissions in the form of writings, audio, video entries or any other artistic format for its third issue Reconsidering Development and the “Institutions”. The journal is theme-based but contributors are encouraged to be creative in integrating themes of each issue into their submissions.

The issue will be launched in the fall of 2011. Submissions are sought that explore both institutions of development (i.e., trade, bilateral aid, military, charity organizations) and development institutions (i.e., World Bank, United Nations).

Authors are encouraged to submit entries that use the following core questions as guides to help the audience reconsider development from interdisciplinary perspectives:

How does an interdisciplinary perspective (or a specific disciplinary approach) shift our conceptualization of institutions of development or of the role of development institutions in shaping the theory, practice, and/or experience of international development?
What are the trends and issues affecting current “institutions” of international development?
What is the future of international development, including the relationship between ‘institutions of development’ and ‘development institutions’ and the international community?

Submissions are sought from multiple theoretical and practical perspectives, disciplines, vantage points, and sectors expressed through innovative formats, including but not limited to video, audio, written, and artistic forms of media. For each submission, international development issues must be made central. Additionally, submissions are expected to engage a wide range of international audience.

Submission Language and Editing

All articles should be submitted in English, and submissions are welcome from persons for whom English is not their first language. The journal is committed to an editing process that allows for one-on-one editing for submitters who have never published before or who do not speak English as a first or second language. Authors are expected to be creative in their submissions: you are encouraged to combine media formats (for example, adding a video clip or photos to a written submission). Artistic expressions are also encouraged to accompany written pieces.

Last date for submission of entries is October 31, 2011

For more information, visit this link.

USAID Partnership establishes African Agricultural Fund

The U.S. Agency for International Development, in collaboration with six partners, is establishing the African Agricultural Capital Fund (AACF), investing $25 million in small- and medium-sized enterprises. It is a unique effort to provide the capital need to boost and support Africa’s agriculture sector, which is severely in need of funds at the mount. The initiative has come at an opportune time, when food prices are drastically increasing in East Africa, as the region suffers the worst drought in the last 60 years.

Pearl Capital Partners (PCP), a specialized African agricultural investment fund manager based in Kampala, Uganda, is allocated the responsibility of investing $25 million from the AACF, in the next five years. The company will be investing the amount in at least 20 agriculture-related businesses in East Africa. The investment will prove to be beneficial not only for the agricultural sector, by providing it with expertise, but will also have a positive effect on at least a quarter of a million households, by increasing their incomes.

“Achieving food security in Africa requires public and private players working and investing together. This transaction is a testament to that kind of collaboration. Investors increasingly see the promise of Africa’s agriculture sector, but the transaction risks are often perceived to be too high. That’s why we’re leveraging our development dollars and using innovative tools like the Development Credit Authority to lower the investment hurdles for private partners that want to invest with us,” said USAID Administrator, Rajiv Shah.

USAID’s Development Credit Authority is also providing a guarantee of 50% of an $8 million commercial loan from J.P. Morgan’s Social Finance Unit to AACF, so as to help more investors join the initiative. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation are also providing $17 million in equity investment, to the fund. USAID-funded business development services, which is mainly funded by President Obama’s flagship Feed the Future Initiative, will also be supporting the AACF with $1.5 million.

PCP’s model aims to train local management teams, rather than bringing management experts from abroad. This will ensure more job opportunities for the local people, as well as a sustainable investment in Africa.

The investors of the fund are members of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) Investors’ Council. The principal funding organizations of the GIIN are USAID, J.P. Morgan, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Unite for Sight invites people from variety of fields to attend the Global Health & Innovation Conference 2012

Unite for Sight is organizing the Global Health & Innovation Conference (GHIC) at Yale University, New Haven CT from April 21-22, 2012. This is one of world’s most important global health conferences and is attended by a large number of professionals and students from different parts of the world. The conference gives a platform to leaders, change-makers, and participants from different fields of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship to discuss various issues and challenges in global health.

In this context, Unite for Sight is seeking abstract submissions from professionals and students in the form of Oral/Poster Abstracts and Social Enterprise Pitch Abstracts.

About Unite For Sight

Unite For Sight is a nonprofit global health delivery organization that is free of commercial interests and committed to promoting high quality care for all. The Global Health & Innovation Conference is presented annually by Unite For Sight.

Unite for Sight empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness. Unite For Sight supports eye clinics in India, Ghana, and Honduras by investing human and financial resources in their social ventures to eliminate patient barriers to eye care. To date, Unite For Sight has provided eye care to more than 1.2 million people worldwide, including more than 43,000 sight-restoring surgeries.

Unite for Sight scales its overall impact on global health delivery by developing and nurturing current and future global health leaders. Global Impact Fellows learn how to apply Unite For Sight’s strategies to their current and future global health work. Global Health University includes idea incubator workshops, Certificate Programs related to global health and social entrepreneurship, fellowship and internship opportunities in the U.S. and abroad, and more than sixty online courses in Global Health E-Library. Annual Global Health & Innovation Conference convenes 2,200 participants from all 50 states and from more than 50 countries to exchange ideas and strategies across all disciplines of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship.

Abstract Submissions

You can also submit abstracts for the Global Health & Innovation Conference. The GHIC accepts two types of abstract submissions. Professionals and students are eligible to submit either type of abstract.

– Oral/Poster Abstracts: These abstracts may be research-focused, clinical-focused, or program-focused. The abstract must include results (data and outcomes), and accepted abstracts will be invited for oral or poster presentation. The final abstract deadline is September 30, 2011.

– Social Enterprise Pitch Abstracts: Those in an early stage of development should instead submit an abstract for the Social Enterprise Pitch Sessions. Pitch abstracts are accepted on a rolling application deadline.

Who Attends the Global Health & Innovation Conference?

The conference annually convenes more than 2,200 people from 55 countries, and the participants are an eclectic group committed to global health innovation and world-changing ideas. Participants of the conference include College Students, Medical Students, Public Health Students, Law Students, Business Students, Graduate Students, Nursing Students, Public health professionals, Physicians, Nurses, Directors of nonprofits and foundations, Social entrepreneurs, Nonprofit professionals, Philanthropists, Policymakers, Educators, Anthropologists and other social scientists, Scientists, Engineers, Lawyers, Business professionals and CEOs, Venture capitalists, Media and press, Bloggers, Activists, and others interested in global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship.

Last date for submission of abstracts is September 30, 2011.

For more information and details, you can visit this link.