[Youthsurvival-network] OPPORTUNITIES

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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Millennium Volunteers funding programme 2008-11
Application Deadline: 14 November 2007
The Volunteer Development Agency is delighted to announce funding for  
the Millennium Volunteers programme to develop youth volunteering in  
Northern Ireland from 2008 to 2011. Applications will be considered  
from voluntary, community, statutory and non-profit organisations that  
are seeking to increase the number of young volunteers and  
volunteering opportunities for young people, increase the diversity of  
volunteers, develop dynamic and creative approaches to the involvement  
of young people, enhance the quality of volunteering practice  
including learning and skills of individual volunteers as well as  
benefit the local community through volunteering. For more  
information, e-mail to mvgrants@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or click here.
Echoing Green Fellowship
2008 Focus: Social Entrepreneurship
Application Deadline: 3 December 2007
Echoing Green is seeking entrepreneurs with an idea for social change  
and the desire to create a new organisation to turn this idea into  
action. Echoing Green Fellows receive up to $90,000 in seed funding,  
powerful technical support opportunities and access to a network of  
hundreds of the world?s most accomplished social entrepreneurs. This  
opportunity is open to entrepreneurs of any nationality, working in  
any field of social change. For more information, click here.
AFRICA: CALL FOR ARTICLES FOR FEMNET NEWS

As a pan-Africa network of women organisations, FEMNET has continued  
to play a vanguard
role in promoting African women?s rights and development. Through our  
bilingual
Newsletter Femnet News, our members and partners have a platform to  
communicate and share
diverse information, experiences and ideas related to women?s  
empowerment as well as
showcase their individual and organisational activities in promoting  
women?s rights at
national, regional and global arenas. Our next issue of Femnet News  
(September-December
2007) will focus on Enhancing African Women?s Leadership.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/fundraising/43826
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AFRICA: CALL FOR PAPERS - AFRICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND  
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
http://www.academicjournals.org/ajpsir/Call%20for%20Papers.htm

African Journal of Political Science and International Relations  
(AJPSIR) is currently
accepting manuscripts for publication. AJPSIR publishes rigorous  
theoretical reasoning
and advanced empirical research in all areas of the subjects. We  
welcome articles or
proposals from all perspectives and on all subjects pertaining to  
Africa, Africa 's
relationship to the world, public policy, international relations,  
comparative politics,
political methodology, political theory, political history and  
culture, global political
economy, strategy and environment.
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GLOBAL: GRANT OPPORTUNITIES FOR MOBILEACTIVES IN HEALTH CARE
http://tinyurl.com/2srqsv

Microsoft Research has issued a worldwide RFP to incubate creative and  
novel healthcare
solutions that are accessible, affordable, and relevant for ?smart?  
mobile phones.
Microsoft Research will support selected academic research with the  
goal of advancing the
state-of-the-art in ?smart? cell phones for healthcare applications.  
Successful projects
must seek to increase the capacity of cell phone-based healthcare solutions in
under-served rural and urban communities. They must also take into  
consideration the
social context of application deployment. deadline for submission of  
proposals is October
29, 2007.
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POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS IN THE OXFORD-PRINCETON GLOBAL LEADERS PROGRAMME
http://glf.politics.ox.ac.uk or

Applications are invited from nationals of non-OECD countries for a  
number of two-year
fellowships to work on development and the role of developing  
countries in the world
political economy. Up to six such fellowships will be awarded in each  
of the next five
years, beginning in September 2008, for a year?s study at Oxford  
followed by a year at
Princeton. Post-holders will be provided with appropriate stipends  
sufficient to cover
full living costs. The programme intends to establish a network of leading
scholar-practitioners in global governance.
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SOUTH AFRICA: FOSS AWARDS LAUNCHED
http://fossawards.co.za/wordpress/?page_id=2

The FOSS Awards were inspired by a love and appreciation of Free  
Software., and a desire
to share this with more people. Ian Gilfillan, who conceptualised the  
idea, writes: ?As a
student, I only learned proprietary software. It was only much later in my own
explorations that I began to explore the world of FOSS. The openness,  
spirit of sharing
and willingness to assist were an inspiration, and allowed me to learn  
much more, and to
create for myself, than would otherwise have been possible.
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WEST AFRICA: BATONGA FOUNDATION
www.sodahead.com/batongafoundation

Batonga Foundation. Led by West African singer, songwriter, and UNICEF  
International
Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo, Batonga?s mission is to provide  
girls with secondary
and higher education so they can take the lead in changing Africa. It  
is currently
operational in five African nations: Benin, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Mali  
and Sierra Leone.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/fundraising/43798
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