Towards deeper regional economic integration: What does the (Mozambican) Northern Corridor mean for Botswana, Malwai, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique itself?

Southern African Political Economy Series: Policy Dialogue Forum

Date: Thursday  17th October 2013
Time:  5pm – 7pm
Venue:  SAPES Seminar Room, 4 Deary Avenue, Belgravia, Harare

Speaker: Hon. Christopher Mutsvangwa, Deputy Minister,  Foreign Affairs, Republic of Zimbabwe
Discussant: Gilbert Mudenda, Sapes Trust,  Zambia
Chairperson: Ibbo Mandaza, Sapes Trust

ALL WELCOME

SAPES TRUST Policy Dialogue Forum Membership forms available at entrance

Feel free to visit our website at www.sapes.org.zw

‘Bikes for Africa’: Bicycles for income generating
Deadline: 18 October 2013

A Dutch NGO, ‘Bikes for Africa,’ is contemplating to supply bicycles to Zimbabwe with the ultimate aim to improve the income generating capacity of families by increasing the mobility of urban commuters and rural (school-going) inhabitants.

Intermediate objectives are to promote road safety for cyclists and to improve the urban cycle infrastructure.

More short-terms objectives are to setup a bicycle distribution and repair centre, create employment by training bicycle repair mechanics and bicycle-and-spare-parts distribution and resale persons and to furnish bicycles to needy charities that can justify their use.

The Dutch organization is looking for registered non-profit making organizations as partners to attain the above stated goals and objectives.

If you represent a non-profit making organization (Trust or Foundation) and share these objectives, you are invited to propose how you can assist by expressing your interest, presenting your organization, its background, aims, objectives and track record of performance and details of how you think you can assist.

Details should include type of organization its (management) structure, number and qualifications of people to be involved, location and infrastructure available, exactly what can be done, costing proposal, etc.

Please submit your contribution of maximum 2 pages (appr. 1000 words) to: bikesforzim@gmail.com

For his project Pretend You’re Actually Alive, Leigh Ledare traced his mother Tina from teenage ballet dancer to mature sexual exhibitionist.

More from the Guardian

Volkswagen Foundation’s Knowledge for Tomorrow – Cooperative Research Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa
Deadline: 13 December 2013

Volkswagen Foundation has announced funding initiative “Knowledge for Tomorrow – Cooperative Research Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa”. The objective of this program is to focus on development and sustainable reinforcement of research in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Research projects, developed and carried out by African scholars and scientists in close cooperation with their German partners, shall provide junior researchers in Africa with an opportunity to enhance their skills and academic qualifications.

Special emphasis is put on the development, reinforcement, and extension of academic networks inside Africa beyond existing language barriers.

Thematic areas
-Land
-Water
-Biological resources
-Sustainable energy for domestic use

Please use this link for more information