The Deputy Director of the center Grace Baguma says consultations will go on for the next 6 months before a decision is made.

Recent media reports indicated that the National curriculum center had abolished teaching of local languages.

Baguma says the reports are false and asked the concerned stakeholders to remain calm as consultations on the issue continues.

She says constitutionally there 65 Languages in the country and the challenge is to decide on which particular languages should be considered.

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The global change System for Analysis, Research and Training (START) seeks to enhance scientific capacity for global environmental change (GEC) research in developing regions.

START’s Africa Initiative (AI) seeks Pre-Proposals from African scientists for one-year projects on global environmental change in Africa.

Proposed research must be field-based and should seek to address substantive policy-relevant challenges facing African policymakers in one or more of the AI areas of conflict resolution, energy, food security, health, migration, and the cross-cutting theme of climate change.

Special consideration will be given to proposals that are amenable to cross-country comparison and develop benchmarks for measuring policy outcomes.

Particular attention will be given to proposals that deal with one or more of the following topics:

• Distribution of food and water as a public good
• Financing for innovative solutions to challenges in the areas of climate change and energy
• Emerging donors in Africa, such as India, China and Brazil
• Implications of demographic change and urbanization
• Policy implementation gaps in local health care delivery and treatment of infectious diseases
• Sources of funding for rebel movements

The Africa Initiative encourages proposals from relevant fields of physical sciences and social sciences. Eligible applicants are African-based scholars, and early-to-mid-career Canadian-based researchers.

Applicants must have a post-graduate degree or be in the advanced stages of a doctoral program.

While the Africa Initiative will give due consideration to any proposal consistent with the overall aim of this project, special consideration will be given to proposed research that:

• Aims to develop innovative approaches to addressing policy challenges in the Africa Initiative’s thematic areas
• Seeks to collect data that can be used by policy makers in Africa
• Attempts to inform both policy makers and academics
• Involves questions that are especially amenable to cross-national comparison

African Small Grants Amount: CAD$15,000

Deadline: Varies

For further details, see: African Small Grants – Small Research Gran

Global change offers research and Training  in Africa

The global change System for Analysis, Research and Training (START) seeks to enhance scientific capacity for global environmental change (GEC) research in developing regions.

START’s Africa Initiative (AI) seeks Pre-Proposals from African scientists for one-year projects on global environmental change in Africa.

Proposed research must be field-based and should seek to address substantive policy-relevant challenges facing African policymakers in one or more of the AI areas of conflict resolution, energy, food security, health, migration, and the cross-cutting theme of climate change.

Special consideration will be given to proposals that are amenable to cross-country comparison and develop benchmarks for measuring policy outcomes.

Particular attention will be given to proposals that deal with one or more of the following topics:

• Distribution of food and water as a public good
• Financing for innovative solutions to challenges in the areas of climate change and energy
• Emerging donors in Africa, such as India, China and Brazil
• Implications of demographic change and urbanization
• Policy implementation gaps in local health care delivery and treatment of infectious diseases
• Sources of funding for rebel movements

The Africa Initiative encourages proposals from relevant fields of physical sciences and social sciences. Eligible applicants are African-based scholars, and early-to-mid-career Canadian-based researchers.

Applicants must have a post-graduate degree or be in the advanced stages of a doctoral program.

While the Africa Initiative will give due consideration to any proposal consistent with the overall aim of this project, special consideration will be given to proposed research that:

• Aims to develop innovative approaches to addressing policy challenges in the Africa Initiative’s thematic areas
• Seeks to collect data that can be used by policy makers in Africa
• Attempts to inform both policy makers and academics
• Involves questions that are especially amenable to cross-national comparison

African Small Grants Amount: CAD$15,000

Deadline: Varies

For further details, see: African Small Grants – Small Research Gran

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We have been told that Yawe has bought a chunk of land in Kireka and he is constructing a house in it. Sources say that Yawe wants to be a resident in Kyadondo East by the time the next general elections would take place.

We have heard that Yawe has realised that he will have no chance of winning Kampala Central MP seat considering the fame the area MP Nsereko has got at the grass root. Nsereko is a darling in Kampala due to his open critic of the ruling party and president Museveni in particular.

By Christine Kate

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