New Zealand Development Scholarships: Open category (NZDS-Open) are offered to candidates from Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia. Preference will be given to applicants from disadvantaged communities. New Zealand Development Scholarships are a central part of the New Zealand Government’s development cooperation programme in Africa. The NZDS scheme offers the opportunity to people from developing countries to study in priority sector courses at New Zealand universities. Scholarships are offered for postgraduate study at the Postgraduate Diploma, Masters or Doctorate (PhD) levels. (Study at PhD level will only be considered where particularly strong development relevance is demonstrated). Undergraduate degree level study is not offered. Up to 14 New Zealand Development Scholarships are given to the region with as equitable a spread as possible across all five eligible countries. Contact Details: Programme Officer, GRM International Pty Ltd, Level 2, 1115 Burnett Street, (Private Bag X38), Hatfield, PRETORIA 0028, SOUTH AFRICA.

Apply for ACCES Scholarship in Kenyan Universities

ACCES Scholarship Program: The African Canadian Continuing Education Society (ACCES) is a non-profit agency that supports Kenyan students by providing post-secondary scholarships. The mission of frican Canadian Continuing Education Society (ACCES) is to help young Africans obtain the skills and education needed to benefit themselves and their society. The scholarships are for study at Kenyan universities and technical colleges. In addition, frican Canadian Continuing Education Society (ACCES) runs primary literacy centres and HIV/AIDS awareness programs. frican Canadian Continuing Education Society (ACCES) donors have helped each one by donating $400 per year or $35 per month to cover tuition fees and accommodation. The scholarships are for the “bright and needy Kenyan youth.” Contact details: ACCES, 2441 Christopherson Rd. Surrey, British Columbia, Canada V4A 3L2. Tel: 604 538 7267. Fax 604 538 7267. Email: acces[at]acceskenya.org

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IFUW International Awards: The International Federation of University Women offers a limited number of international fellowships and grants to women graduates for postgraduate research, study and training.

A small number of awards may be available for Masters’ level studies.

Most of the awards are intended for the second and subsequent years of a doctoral programme and for post-doctoral studies. First year doctoral students do not qualify.

Students in any branch of learning may apply; however, priority is given to proposals related to IFUW priorities which include the improvement of the status of women and girls or women and promotion of women in scientific and technological careers. (See IFUW website for other priority areas).

The awards may be used in any country other than the one in which the applicant was educated or habitually resides.

Preference is given to women whose work will be carried out in a countries other than their home countries or the ones in which they received their previous education.

Normally 16 to 25 fellowships and grants are offered in each competition. Fellowships are the equivalent of 8,000 to 10,000 Swiss francs.

Grants are from 3,000 to 6,000 Swiss francs.

Deadline: The deadline varies by country, but normally falls between September and mid-October.

Contact Details: International Federation of University Women, 10 rue du Lac, CH-1207 Geneva, Switzerland. Tel: (41.22) 731 23 80. Fax: (41.22) 738 04 40. E-mail: info[at]ifuw.org.

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UN.GIFT Small Grants: UN.GIFT has established a Small Grants Facility with the overall objective to increase and improve support structures for victims of human trafficking around the world.

Through a Call for Proposals, relevant organizations will be identified and the most promising projects will be selected.

Civil society organizations will receive grants either to sustain existing anti-human trafficking initiatives or to engage in additional counter-trafficking activities.

In additions, the UN.GIFT website will provide a virtual forum for CSOs to promote their projects, to network with other stakeholders and to showcase their activities to the international community.

The following activities are a priority for UN.GIFT Small Grants:

• The empowerment of vulnerable groups and communities
• Direct victim support
• Cooperation between NGOs from countries of origin and destination
• Collection of evidence-based knowledge

For more information and application see; UN.GIFT Small Grants

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Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Grants: The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG) welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance.

Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence, aggression, and dominance in the modern world.

In addition, ten or more dissertation fellowships are awarded each year to individuals who will complete the writing of the dissertation within the award year.

These fellowships of $20,000 each are designed to contribute to the support of the doctoral candidate to enable him or her to complete the thesis in a timely manner, and it is only appropriate to apply for support for the final year of Ph.D. work.

Applications are evaluated in comparison with each other and not in competition with the postdoctoral research proposals.

Applicants may be citizens of any country and studying at colleges or universities in any country.

Deadline: February 1 each year.

A completed application will include THREE copies of the following items, typewritten in English and mailed to: The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, 25 West 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10019-5401.

For further details, and application materials, contact: Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Grants

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The figures that came from the central government as conditional grants were instead broken down by the Executive Director unilaterally hence set the wrong priorities. As a result of the public outcry more so the bad state of the roads in the city, the Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago decided to convene a special KCCA meeting-purely to revisit and realign those priority areas in order to address the current situation in the city.

According to the KCCA act, the budget has to be presented to the authority for final approval which the Executive Director Jenifer Musisi Semakula did not do. So Tuesday’s KCCA meeting that flopped had been called to address the above issue. Musisi realizing that her office was going to be questioned over the expenditures currently goingon that were not approved by the authority, she decided to frustrate the meeting by influencing councilors not to attend citing unfounded grounds that the meeting had not been legally convened.

The notice was issued to all councilors on 11^th Jan calling for a special authority meeting on 17^th and that was an adequate notice for a special meeting. Ms Musisi wants to continue spending money without accountability queries, this is the reason she is using the councilors to boycott meetings called by Lukwago. To be continued!

By Kampala Lord Mayor, Suleiman Kidandala

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