CPN‐Africa hereby wishes to inform all eligible “Young” African Scientists about the FP7‐Africa‐2010 
Call topics that were proposed by Africans and are directed mainly towards Africa’s research needs in 
the areas of Health, Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology. The deadline for this Call is the 14th of 
January, 2010. In view of getting European partners with whom to collaborate in the writing and 
implementation  of  their  projects,  CPN‐Africa  is  offering  fellowships  to  eligible  “Young”  African 
Scientists to sponsor a 4‐week trip to Europe to search for and find European partners with whom to 
write up and submit a project related to this call. To view the downloadable call for fellowships please click here.
 
More information on this call can be found on the CORDIS website of the European Commission, and 
some institutions searching for partners are also presented in the CIRCA website.

The PRD College announces a call for applications for advanced training in biomedicine and development. PRD College will award up to 24 fellowships to MD graduates registered for PhD, PhD Students or Post-
Docs from Africa and Europe. The programme starts in January 2010 and will last for two and a half years.

Students should have institutional support for this activity. The intensive training courses will be taught by
researchers from partner and other Institutions; Partner institutions are:
• University of Yaounde I, Cameroon
• Makerere University, Uganda
• International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), South Africa
• Tropical Disease Research Center, Zambia
• Mbeya Medical Research Programme, Tanzania
• Stockholm University, Sweden

For more details please download the PRD Call for Applications.

UNV Internship programme open for applications

Irish Aid is funding sixteen positions as part of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) Internship programme in 2010.

The purpose of the programme is to help develop the next generation of Irish development workers and to provide individuals who want to work in the Irish overseas development sector the opportunity to gain field experience with the UN in some of its missions around the world. Interns will be placed as project officers with UN agencies located mostly in one of Irish Aid’s programme countries; Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Timor Leste, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia. However some placements may also be in other countries in which Irish Aid provides support e.g. Cambodia, Laos, Sierra Leone and the Ukraine.

Interns will work in a UN field office for a period of 12 months (non-renewable) and will receive a stipend to cover basic living expenses and travel. Successful applicants will work in one or more of the following areas: education, gender, environment, health, HIV and AIDS, water and sanitation, governance, emergency and rehabilitation, communications, food security and rural development.

For more information and an application form please visit www.irishaid.gov.ie.

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Toolkit HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria and Health Systems Strengthening

Part 1: The M&E system and Global Fund M&E requirements (60 pp. 2.2 MB)

Part 2: Tools for monitoring programs for HIV, tuberculosis, malaria and health systems strengthening

• HIV (92 pp. 1.9 MB):

• Tuberculosis (56 pp. 1.7 MB):

• Malaria (64 pp. 1.9 MB):

• Health Systems Strengthening (72 pp. 1.9 MB):

It is becoming increasingly important for countries to be able to report accurate, timely and comparable data to national authorities and donors in order to secure continued funding for expanding health programs. Most importantly, they need to be able to use this information locally to strengthen evolving programs.

The purpose of the toolkit is to provide guidance on developing robust M&E systems, to gather a selection of standard indicators to manage results and to monitor the impact achieved by the programs in HIV, TB and malaria, including health systems strengthening.

If you need assistance in downloading the document, please contact:

carol lombard
deputy director
population & development information and knowledge centre
department of social development
clombard@dsd.gov.za
http://www.population.gov.za