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Microsoft/IYF/US

2008-08-18T09:31:00.000-07:00

Microsoft/IYF/ US Government Employability Programme (MEP) – hosted by “LEAP Africa” in collaboration with YES NIGERIA

Nominate a young person or apply today!

Deadline: send in all forms for Calabar event slated for Sept 1st - 5th to YES Nigeria contacts by the 22nd August 2008

The Microsoft / IYF / United States Government Employability Programme builds on LEAP Africa ’s Youth Leadership Programme, which is focused on providing youth with life and leadership skills. In addition, it will build on the experience of its implementing partners, who work with youth in the area of employability and job placement across Nigeria .

"Through a five -day training programme, LEAP will use a combination of role plays, case studies, breakout sessions and interactive exercises to equip the youth participants with insights, tools and skills needed to identify their career path, gain employment and be successful in their chosen occupations, which benefits themselves, the workforce, the community and the economy."

Please see attached for programme flier and application forms.

For the Calabar event please send nominations to YES NIGERIA to
Leke <lekeoba@yahoo. com> 08032222859

and copy
cc Esther <daisydiamond2000@ yahoo.com>, Pamela <miz_pdb@yahoo. com>

*YES Nigeria mailing list recipients please note that our list does not support regular attachments so click on the link to the document to access forms and fliers.

Pamela Braide - Coordinator
YES Country Network - Nigeria
http://projects. takingitglobal. org/YES-Nigeria
e group http://groups. takingitglobal. org/yesnigeria

Check the above link to get the application forms.
Thanks

GYCA] Sex, Rights and Law. Request for abstracts

2008-08-18T09:18:00.000-07:00

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Request for AbstractsSex, Rights and the Law in a World with AIDSIn partnership with aids2031, the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA) will convene a meeting in early 2009 entitled Sex, Rights and the Law in a World with AIDS. The conveners are soliciting abstracts of published or unpublished papers that capture research and/or experience on sexual behavior, sexual identity, human rights and the law as they relate to a long-term response to the AIDS epidemic. Research, program and advocacy-oriented papers are welcome. Ten to twelve of the submitted abstracts will be selected by the conveners for presentation at the meeting.The goal of the meeting is to identify effective strategies to address sexuality- and gender-related vulnerabilities to HIV. The objective of the meeting is to uncover existing strategies, generate innovative thinking and develop recommendations on addressing:The complex social, legal and political obstacles to the successful prevention of sexually transmitted HIV, andThe barriers to effective, gender-transformative and human rights-based approaches to treatment, care and support. The meeting will produce succinct but thorough guidance for programs, policy and action. The meeting will take place over 2.5 days in late January/early February of 2009, location to be determined. Abstracts of no more than two pages (12 point, Arial font, 1 inch margins) should include the following information:Issues: A summary of the issue(s) addressed by the abstract; Description: A description of the research, project, experience, service and/or advocacy; partners involved; and the extent to which this work captured new or marginalized voices;Results/Lessons learned: Conclusions and implications of the research or project, especially for marginalized groups; Conclusions and next steps: Main finding/results of effort, and possible next steps for future action and collaboration with additional partners. Abstracts should be sent in PDF format to Ann Warner (awarner@icrw.org), by September 30, 2008. Abstract submissions will be reviewed and applicants notified regarding acceptance for the workshop by October 31, 2008. Completed papers are due to the conveners by December 15, 2008. Direct travel expenses as well as room and board will be covered by the workshop host. Exact dates and the venue for the three-day workshop will be finalized soon.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --www.youthaidscoalition.org-

GYCA SMALL GRANTS

2008-08-18T09:16:00.000-07:00

Message attachments:<http://files.tiggroups.org/70089/SmallGrantsApplicationForm.doc.word>My apologies- the wrong file attached by accident! Please find theapplication form attached this time, and disregard the previous email.AlezaOn Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:35 AM, aleza summit wrote:>>>> Dear GYCA Community,>> We are pleased to announce that applications are currently open for the> second round of the GYCA Small Grants Program! Thanks to the generous> support of American Jewish World Service (http://www.ajws.org/), the GYCA> Small Grants Program will continue to help outstanding young leaders> working> on HIV to successfully implement projects in their communities.>>>> In the second round of our Small Grants program, we will be giving out five> small grants of $1500 each. In order to be considered for a grant,> applicants must have successfully completed at least one of GYCA's online> courses. Grant recipients will be required to monitor their projects'> progress on an online blog for the GYCA community and through a mid-grant> project report and final grant report.>> To apply, please fill out the Small Grants Application Form (attached) and> submit it to http://us.mc563.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=grants@youthaidscoalition.org. Please also e-mail any> questions> about the program to http://us.mc563.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=grants@youthaidscoalition.org. *The application> deadline is September 14th.>> *>> GYCA will give priority to applicants who reside in a developing country> where funding is not easily accessible; are living with HIV/AIDS and/or> belong to a marginalized group; are connected with a local,> well-established> NGO; and are committed to sharing their skills with their peers. *GYCA, as> a> youth-serving network, will only make grants to applicants under 30 years> of> age.*>>> More information about grant eligibility and a downloadable copy of the> application are also available on the GYCA website, at> http://www.youthaidscoalition.org/pages.html?page=smallgrants>>>> Also, check out what the first round of Small Grants winners are doing, at> http://www.tigblog.org/group/gycablog/>>> We look forward to receiving your applications!>>> --> Aleza Summit> Program Officer> Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS> 307 West 38th Street, Suite 1805> New York, NY 10018> 1-212-661-6111> 1-212-661-1933 (fax)> www.youthaidscoalition.org> http://us.mc563.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=aleza@youthaidscoalition.org

Regeneration Newsletter

2008-07-27T11:31:00.002-07:00

Newsletter #6 – July 17th 2008

We can’t wait to meet you!
With less than a month to go, the Congress organizers are fully ready to host the event. Everybody that’s involved with organizing the event couldn’t possibly be more excited to meet the young participants in August.
We do know that some participants worked awfully hard to be able to come to Quebec City this summer, some with no avail. We can assure you that your efforts won’t be wasted, as we have prepared both an amazing programme for those who can attend the event and a very useful platform for those who couldn’t make it with the Virtual Congress. (For more information about the Virtual Congress, see below)
If you are still working to attend the event, please know that delays are getting thinner and thinner. We are in the last period and the last confirmations are about to come in. We want to greet as many delegates as we can.
Don’t miss this chance to take part in Quebec City’s biggest international youth event of its 400th anniversary celebrations!

August 12th: the World Youth Walk
On August 12th 2008, the International Day of the Youth of the United Nations Organisation (UNO) will be celebrated everywhere around the world. This summer, the United Nations system will meet in Quebec City for the World Youth Walk!
The main theme for this summer is:
"YOUTH AND CLIMATE CHANGE: TIME FOR ACTION"
Presented by the Uniterra international cooperation program, this walk will be an important meeting of the committed young people who care about the sustainable development of their communities. It will be a great opportunity to meet the 500 young people of 120 countries from around the world who will participate to ReGeneration 2008. The participants of the 5th edition of the summer School of the Institut du Nouveau-Monde will also participate to this event.
Be part of the biggest and the most inspirational gathering of its kind for young people during the events of the 400th anniversary of the City of Quebec.
Get all the details at this page: www.wyc2008.qc.ca/marche
Of course, we also invite you to join the event created on Facebook, at this adress: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=69597945496&ref=ts

Sign the Great Declaration!
August 12th won’t be only about the International Youth Day or even the World Youth Walk. Right after the WYW, our friends at the Institut du Nouveau Monde (INM) will unveil the Great Declaration.
Here are the project’s goals:
"The Great Declaration proclaims the principles and values they wish to promote on a global scale. Its aim is to install the desire for change and to stimulate involvement among citizens. Although primarily proposed by young people, its message is addressed to all generations."
The INM organizers are working really hard to gain hundreds of signatures for the Great Declaration. We cheerfully invite you to personally commit to concrete action at the following address: http://www.nowisign.org/.

Have your Say!
The world’s definitive scientific authority on climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that the “warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level.”[1] The impacts are discernable on every continent and the IPCC predicts that unless we take decisive action now to reduce our emissions, the world will warm a further 1.1-6.4˚C within this century. With rising sea levels, shifting precipitation patterns, widening ranges of disease and more frequent and violent storms, this will have a harrowing impact on human and natural systems, especially the world’s most vulnerable. As UNICEF has pointed out, it is the world’s young and poor who stand to suffer the worst effects of climate change. Is this the world that we want to inherit?
The good news is that we have a choice. We can avoid the worst impacts of climate change if we take action now. Youth around the world are standing up and calling for action from their governments, their peers and themselves. We are becoming the solution.

Questions:
- What roles can you play in creating just and sustainable solutions to the climate challenge?
- What resources and support do you need to realize these solutions?
- What can we do together at the World Youth Congress to build on this?
- What do you feel are the tools that youth need to efficiently battle the environmental challenge that humanity is currently faced with?
- If you were to start a climate change-oriented action or project, what would it entail?

We will be very happy to have your opinions and stories on the Congress Discussion Board at this address : http://www.wyc2008.qc.ca/virtual/. You will a week to answer to those questions starting from the moment you will receive this newsletter. We will ask some questions each week until the beginning of the World Youth Congress. Don’t forget to specify your age and the country you are coming from!

Welcome to the dialogue!

For more information, take a look on TakingITGlobal’s page about climate change: http://issues.takingitglobal.org/climate

Virtual Congress
The 4th World Youth Congress will take place in Quebec City, Canada during the month of August and even if you cannot attend the Congress in person you can still be an active participant in Congress activities! The Virtual Congress is now online at http://www.wyc2008.qc.ca/virtual/. This space is a place where youth can watch video clips, interact with other people and workshop facilitators, share their thoughts, write articles for the Congress Daily Newspaper, and much more!

Check it out!
[1] Source: IPCC AR4 Synthesis Report, SPM, 2008. Note: range given is an aggregate of all scenarios modelled, based on 1989-1999 to 2089-2099 averages. For pre-industrial temperature increases, add 0.5˚C.

wAi Africa Newsletter

2008-07-27T11:24:00.000-07:00

What is Cooking

Immortalizing Women's Response to Slave Trade
Women were very significant in resting against the slave trade and protecting their families during the slave trade. wAi Africa is interested in erecting a statue in Cape Coast in order to immortalize women's responses to the slave trade. This project is visualization of history and it tells the women's stories. wAi is accepting partnership from around the world to implement this project. http://www.waiafrica.org/page.php?ppid=6

Training Liberian Women in the Arts
The opportunity to be trained in the arts will be extended to the Liberian women at the Liberian camp in the Central Region of Ghana. WAi Africa and Foundation for Female Photojournalists (FFP) aims to train approximately 20 women in the areas of photography, theater, and video editing. Support such as donations of materials like professional cameras and computers will give women a starting point in live after years civil war. This is a call to support the reconstruction of Liberia. http://www.waiafrica.org/page.php?ppid=6&pid=14

Ghana-Liberia Community Harmonization and Reconciliation Arts Festival
WAi Africa and other partners hope to create a festival that involves group dancing, poetry recital, and painting. Want to give your support or attend? http://www.waiafrica.org/page.php?ppid=6&pid=14

Artistically Promoting Biodiversity
Using art to save the environment is a new initiative program by wAi-Africa. Recycling widely used materials such as wood, clay, and rocks will lessen the destruction of rivers, plants, and animal ecology. wAi-Africa is committed to establishing multi-purpose furnaces and studios in order to facilitate the use of waste materials and secondary products such as wood dust, glass, etc. http://www.waiafrica.org/page.php?ppid=6&pid=34

Want to Follow your Dreams? wAi-Africa can help!
Interested in the professional arts? wAi Africa will support you in your country with administrative set-up and program implementation skills. You can create groups focused on women in photography, filmmaking, graphic designing, and much more! http://www.waiafrica.org/page.php?ppid=6&pid=33

Entrenching Women in the Arts Economic Empowerment
In efforts to sustain the environment, wAi-Africa hopes to manufacture paper from all materials that can produce paper products. The goal is to use common agricultural products like saw dust and sugar cane chaff to create paper while still advocating for tree planting and paper recycling. Interested in supporting an environment-friendly project? http://www.waiafrica.org/page.php?ppid=6&pid=35

Fulfilling the Dreams of HIV/AIDS Patients in Africa
WAi-Africa pledges to fulfill the dreams of select HIV/AIDS patients within communities that have stigmatized perceptions of HIV/AIDS. The project titled "HIV/AIDS Millionaire Club- the Attraction" will photo document and film AIDS patients in their best dreams to reduce the discrimination and stigmatization of HIV/AIDS patients. Help improve the lives of HIV/AIDS patients by funding this project. http://www.waiafrica.org/page.php?ppid=6&pid=36

From the Policies to the People: Reducing Carbon Emissions
wAi-Africa intends to reduce carbon emissions by 30% within 5 years in West Africa. To ensure low carbon technologies in energy driven machineries, one phase of the program aims to draft policies and enact laws to legally compel. Through research, media coverage, and legislator engagement. The next phase involves the establishment of functional bio or wind energy stations in communities. The final phase will focus on changing lifestyles by advocating to individuals about lessening carbon emissions. Click on the heading for more information today! Put your money where your heart is. http://www.waiafrica.org/page.php?ppid=6&pid=37

Is ICT Sexist?
ICT, or Information and Communication Technology, is programmed to exclude women. Software developers have created programs in order to reject offensive information from external sources. Unfortunately, this offensive information includes terminology associated with women, females, sexual harassment, etc. wAi-Africa seeks to conduct research and propose strategies to make all aspects of ICT inclusive of women. http://www.waiafrica.org/page.php?ppid=6&pid=38

Call for Proposal- TV Comedy Series
The Women's Arts Institute Africa (wAi Africa) is calling on all women writers to script a comedy that will use women as main characters. Chosen scripts will be developed into full scripts by 30th September 2008. All submissions are due by 20th July 2008. http://www.waiafrica.org/news.php?nid=25

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HIV/AIDS CONFERENCE IN MEXICO CITY
GYCA UPDATE

As the International AIDS Conference approaches (AIDS 2008), I would like to inform of you of a service that the Kaiser Family Foundation is offering, allowing you to access online coverage of the conference. Kaisernetwork. org's extensive conference coverage will include live and tape-delayed webcasts of select session; podcasts available in Spanish and English; interviews with newsmakers and journalists; and daily narrated video highlights of major conference developments and much more.I would like to point out that everyday from August 3-8, we will be sending out a daily update email featuring highlights from the conference. We hope you will consider forwarding the daily update email to members of your listserv for that week, to help extend the reach of the conference. This is a highly useful service for members on your listserv because the information presented in this conference will be relevant to the public, researchers, scientists, advocates and policymakers alike. Sign up for the email at http://www.kaiserne twork.org/ aids2008 . In addition to the daily conference update email, we also have a variety of syndication options, including an online widget, that allow organizations and individuals to feature content on their Web sites, blogs and social networking pages. For more information and to see examples of partners' sites that syndicated content from the 2006 International AIDS Conference, visit http://www.kaiserne twork.org/ aids2008/ syndication. cfm.

Emilia Eyo
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