The members of the legal fraternity in partnership with the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs and the Democratic Governance Facility were part of the people who marked the pro bono day. Henry Adonyo reminded the magistrates, lawyers and judges to ensure that marginalized persons access justice.

Pro bono day is cerebrated voluntarily and without payment to judges and lawyers. On this day the members of legal fraternity mix up with people who are unable to enjoy heir rights by virtue of their circumstances, gender, age, location and voicelessness.

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Intensive Language Course in Germany Scholarships: DAAD offers grants to graduate students at North American universities to attend 8-week intensive language courses at leading institutes in Germany.

The scholarship of €1,300 includes tuition, accommodations (arranged by the host institute), and a cash allowance for meals and incidental expenses in full or in part, depending on the choice of location and accommodations.

DAAD will provide health and accident insurance as well as a travel subsidy of €210.

Scholarship recipients are expected to devote their full attention to the course and may not concurrently undertake individual research. A written report is requested within four weeks of the end of the course.

Scholarship Application Requirements:

• Scholarships are awarded to students currently enrolled full-time in a graduate program in all fields of study except English, German, or any other modern language or literature.
• Applicants will be assessed on the basis of their academic record and statements of projected academic and professional future.

Foreign nationals are eligible if they have been full-time graduate students at a US or Canadian University for at least one academic year at the time of application.

Applicants who have received a DAAD summer language grant in the past three years are not eligible to apply.

Deadline: November 15.

Complete applications should be sent to the DAAD New York office. Applications postmarked November 15 or earlier will be accepted.

For further details and application forms, see: Intensive Language Course in Germany – DAAD Website

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Research projects should be aimed at understanding and controlling diseases (either human or animal) of relevance to local, national or global health.

Fellowship Eligibility

Applications are only accepted in the Public Health and TropicalMedicine Interview Committee remit. This covers research oninfectious and non-communicable diseases within the fields ofpublic health and tropical medicine that is aimed at understanding and controlling diseases (either human or animal) of relevance to local, national or global health.

This can include laboratory based molecular analysis of field orclinical samples, but projects focused solely on studies in vitro or using animal models will not normally be considered under this scheme.

You must be a national or legal resident of a low- and middle–income country, and be either a:

• graduate in a subject relevant to public health or tropical medicine (for example; biomedical or social science, veterinary medicine, physics, chemistry or mathematics) with a PhD and at least five years’ postdoctoral experience, or
• medical graduate with a higher qualification equivalent to membership of the UK Royal College of Physicians (i.e. qualified to enter higher specialist training), or be recognised as a specialist within a relevant research area, and have at least five years’ research experience.

Applicants who do not have a PhD but who are educated to first degree or Master’s level and have substantial research experience, as evidenced by their publication record, may be considered.

Fellowship Applications

Fellowships are for up to five years in the first instance and provide support that includes:

• a basic salary
• research expenses (e.g. consumables, equipment, collaborativetravel, research assistance, technical support, fieldwork and data collection)
• training costs where appropriate and justified
• an inflation allowance and support to attend scientific meetings.

Contributions to costs of the project that are directly incurredby the overseas institution may also be provided.

The salary should normally be based on the pay scales of the employing institution and must be justified by the head of theinstitution.

The salary level should be appropriate for the holder of a competitive grant and allow him/her to focus fulltime on research.

If the fellow is already in receipt of a salary from the hostinstitution, the host institution may use the salary to pay fora replacement member of staff while we provide the fellow’s salary for the duration of the fellowship.

It is not expected that the fellow will hold a salary in addition to the one provided by the Trust.

Overseas allowances will be provided for periods of training or collaborative research spent outside the home institution country, where appropriate.

Research-dedicated costs (excluding salary costs) should not exceed £100 000 per annum.

This fellowship is subject to competitive rolling scientific review every five years, and will be renewed on the basis that the Trust and the host institution will jointly fund the Senior Fellow’s basic employment costs through a partnership arrangement for the duration of any renewal period.

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We hear that any person or company dealing in garbage must cough one million shillings to get registered. The KCCA director, Jenifer Musisi confirms that the authority is to register the garbage collectors and adds that they are required to register with KCCA detailing their physical address, location and the areas they cover.

They must also indicate their logistical base, equipments, key personel, copies of memoranda, certificate of incorporation, and certificate of registration in case of a CBO. We have also learnt that the registration shall be conducted by the office of the executive director at City hall building.

 By Moureen Nakyanzi

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Kayihura says that the organisers of walk to work campaigns (A4C) in the first case did not comply with the 1995 Constitution of the Republic ofUganda. Kayihura says the police received solid intelligence evidence that the walk to work protests was designed to start on a peaceful note but later turn violent and cause bodily harm on the people who would have shunned the campaign.

The inspector general further says that the coordinator of walk to work protests Masaka Municipality MP Mathias Mpuuga notified the Police late “considering the time required to prepare for such an event,” and that Mpuuga had concealed the A4C programme.

Kayihura says that the concealment of the A4C agenda meant that the organisers of walk to work protests had ill intentions. Kayihura says that the Uganda Police under Article 212 has a duty to protect life and property, ensure law and order, prevent and detect crime.

Kayihura also says that the police drew lessons from previous experiences of the walk-to-work demonstrations which ended up in violent riots where roads were blocked, cars stoned and other property damaged as well as loss of lives.

The police boss further says that the organisers of walk to work protests did not indicate the specific location and times of their intended protests, in addition to obtaining clearance from the custodian of the premises they intended to use for their event.

The organisers of walk to work protests had given police the location of their protests as ‘countrywide’, which made it impractical for Police to secure their activities, and they did not confirm whether the custodian of Kololo Airstrip (Office of the President) had cleared them to use the grounds for the A4C rally on 22nd October, 2011.

By Walakira Nyanzi

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