Seminar

Online Discussion
You are invited to participate in an online discussion on the linkages between women's and girls' access to and participation in formal and non-formal education and training, and their equal access to full employment and decent work.

The Zambian Watchdog publication will lead a two-day seminar in Lusaka that will give participants useful tips on ways to maintain and protect their reputations online. Deadline: June 10.

The workshop, on June 24 and 25, will also cover basic skills such as creating mailing lists, databases, and blogs.

For more information and the application form, email adverts [at] zambianwatchdog [dot] com, or call Nelly Kasabo at +260 977510485.

Isandla Institute invites policy makers, planners, researchers and community activists to a seminar entitled ‘Coming to Grips With Informality and HIV/AIDS Through Innovative Settlement Planning and Design’ from 12-13 May 2010 in Newlands, Cape Town.

Isandla Institute will present the findings of a pilot project in Nelson Mandela Bay Metro. The programme also includes site visits to projects in Phillipi and Khayelitsha.

Speakers:

When it comes to governance, risk & compliance, find out why business leaders and fighter-jet pilots have so much in common.

Presented in association with IBM South Africa, this one-day intervention looks at governance, risk and compliance with a ‘new set of eyes'.

The facilitator, Terry Booysen (CEO of CGF Research Institute), uses the analogy of fighter-pilot tactics in relation to business leadership and sound governance practices.

 When it comes to governance, risk & compliance, find out why business leaders and fighter-jet pilots have so much in common.

Presented in association with IBM South Africa, this one-day intervention looks at governance, risk and compliance with a ‘new set of eyes'.

The facilitator, Terry Booysen (CEO of CGF Research Institute), uses the analogy of fighter-pilot tactics in relation to business leadership and sound governance practices.

 Merchants of Modernity 

Why business should stop apologising and start strategising

Development Intelligence Series Breakfast Briefing and Discussion hosted by Tshikululu Social Investments and GIBS

Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF – Doctors Without Borders) and the University of Johannesburg have partnered to increase awareness of Public Health-related issues within South Africa and across the region through a series of high-level debates. The first in this series of debates will focus on refugees’ access to basic necessities in inadequately-resourced urban settings.

Time: 18h00 for 18h30

As part of its aims to strengthen its role and contribution to the NGO sector, Microsoft, together with SANGONeT will be hosting a one-day seminar on 15 March 2010 at the Microsoft offices in Bryanston, Johannesburg, to discuss ways in which NGOs can use ICTs more strategically.

In the State of ICTs in the South African NGO Sector 2009 survey, conducted by World Wide Worx on behalf of SANGONeT, and sponsored by Microsoft and the NDA, it was found that technology is increasingly impacting on all aspects of the NGO sector.

In recognition of International Human Rights Day, the Democracy Development Programme (DDP) and South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), are hosting a seminar entitled ‘Race, Class and Affirmative Action” on 9 December 2009 in Durban.

The Centre for the Study of Violence & Reconciliation and the Gender, Health & Justice Research Unit of the University of Cape Town cordially invites you to the seminar: The Gateway to Justice? Policing rape in South Africa which will be held in Cape Town.