Seminar

South African NGOs are currently facing a crisis of financial sustainability. The combined result of diminishing international funding, ineffective delivery by state funding institutions, and the current economic recession, has placed many organisations in financial crisis.

What better time than now for NGOs and the institutions that support their work to be thinking together about more sustainable financial models.

The Right to Know, Right to Education project of Idasa’s Economic Governance Programme invites you to a public lecture by Statistician General, Dr Pali Lehohla.

Dr Lehohla will be speaking on the importance of the right of access to information for citizen participation.

Time: From noon to 14h30

RSVP: On or before 19 October to Robyn, email: rlubbe [at] idasa [dot] org [dot] za, tel: 012 392 0644

The ACP/EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), together with its partners, is hosting an international seminar on the *"Role of the media in agricultural development in ACP countries"* (Central, East, Southern and West Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific).

Its aim is to:

The Reading Association of South Africa (RASA), which is affiliated to the International Reading Association (IRA), aims to bring together individuals and organisations who are committed to the study and teaching of reading and writing. It seeks to look collaboratively for strategies and tactics to establish and develop a literate society in the Southern African region. In November 2008 the KZN branch of RASA (RASA KZN) was formed at the RASA conference in Durban.

Are you interested and/or involved in

The Unit for Social Behaviour Studies in HIV/AIDS and Health, Department of Sociology in Collaboration with the US Embassy, is hosting 2010 Soccer World Cup, Human Trafficking and HIV and AIDS seminar on 8 May 2009 in Pretoria.

Speakers Include: