The East Africa Social Science Translation (EASST) Collaborative, jointly administered by the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), headquartered at the University of California, Berkeley, and Makerere University in Uganda, is pleased to announce two exciting research and funding opportunities: (1) 2015 Evaluation Design Contest and (2) Fall 2015-Spring 2016 Visiting Fellowship! Below is a brief summary description of each competition. For more information about the EASST […]
Free Press Unlimited is launching the first ever StoryMaker competition in Africa. The competition is open to journalists, bloggers and activists across Africa who submit stories that showcase human rights issues that are important in your community. Would you like to enter this competition and be the first StoryMaker Africa Competition winner? Click here to […]
The Global Resilience Partnership was recently launched to build resilience to acute shocks and chronic stresses in the Sahel, Horn of Africa, and South and Southeast Asia – complex regions with high resilience needs. The Global Resilience Challenge is a three-stage competitive grant process aimed at combating acute shocks and chronic stresses in the priority regions. […]
Invitation for submission of concept papers: The Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) is pleased to call upon interested individuals and entities (non-governmental and civil society organizations, research organizations/think tanks, media groups, production houses and others) to express their interest in preparing, organising, convening and broadcasting a substantive public issue-based debate series, with special regard for governance, […]
Strathmore University, Kenya and the University of Waterloo, Canada have partnered to bring you the 2014 Mobile Technology Student Competition. The theme for this 1st inaugural competition is: To address agricultural issues in sub-Saharan Africa using mobile and social networking technologies. Examples of agricultural issues lending themselves to mobile solutions could include but are not […]
The Google Online Marketing Challenge is a unique opportunity for students to experience and create online marketing campaigns using Google AdWords and Google+. Over 80,000 students and professors from almost 100 countries have participated in the past 7 years. The Challenge is open to student teams of three to six members from undergraduate or graduate […]
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) Trainee Project for Young Film Critics is a talent development program that offers up to three young (under 30 years), motivated and talented professional film critics from outside the Netherlands a chance to travel abroad to cover a major international film festival, to get acquainted with the Rotterdam film […]
THE HARRY FRANK GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION (HFGF) is an American private foundation which supports research on problems related to violence and aggression. HFGF conducts a special program for young African Scholars, aged 35 or younger, who have been educated and are living on the continent. This includes a methods workshop, to be held this spring in […]
