Fund for Gender Equality Grant Application 2011-2012

Today, UN Women is pleased to announce Phase 2 of the Fund for Gender Equality’s Second Call for Proposals, reiterating the Fund’s founding vision to help women achieve political and economic empowerment, two key priority areas outlined in UN Women’s recently approved Strategic Plan (2012-2013).

March 1th, 2012: Call for Proposals announced for eligible countires in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific, and Central Asia and Europe (applications accepted in English, French and Spanish). Online application process opens March 12th, 2012. Grants will be announced in October 2012. Please visit http://www.unwomen.org/how-we-work/fund-for-gender-equality/ for additional information..

Seminar on Access to E-Resources for National Development – Free Entrance

African Library Solution and Development (ALISOD) will conduct one day Seminar aiming at Training community on access to Electronic Resources for management of their organizations for national development. This is the continuation of series of ALISOD effort in providing information literacy skills to Tanzanian community.

Target groups for this Training are Academicians, NGO's, CBO's, Researchers and any other development practitioners. This Training which will be Free of charge for participants, will be held at The Institute of Social Work - Kijitonyama Dar es Salaam on 17th March, 2012 from 10:00am - 4:00pm.

These series of Training to Tanzanian communities are due to unawareness of available electronic resources which are essential for their daily activities and Community unawareness of relevancy of information on their daily use causing tiny use of information.

This training aims at bridging community access to modern information environments with reference to E-Resources for national developments. Other objectives are:-

To create awareness of necessity of information in human daily life
To train identification of various information sources
To train how to access e-resources for reference and management of daily activities.
To train methods of creating global networks using e-resources
To create LISTSERV for possible information dissemination and current awareness development.

Hence, ALISOD invite all interested people to participate this free opportunity for national development through effective utilization of electronic resources which are essential in current information trend.

Any interested person should confirm by sending his/her names at this email address (info@alisod.org). It should be noted that only 100 participants are required for this training. For more information about this seminar please visit the following site: www.alisod.org

New added links to open access journals - Hindawi

Hindawi publishes more than 300 Open Access journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines, such as biology, chemistry, dentistry, medicine, phamarcy, nursing etc. All articles published in Hindawi journals are open access and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

New Publication from Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA) in Tanzania

Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA) is one of the leading independent research institutions in Tanzania specialising in policy research on socio-economic and development issues. REPOA's research is currently conducted in Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar, with some research projects covering every district.

Here are the new publications from REPOA

Affordability and Expenditure Patterns for Electricity and Kerosene in Urban Households in Tanzania
Raymond Mnenwa and Emmanuel Maliti, 2011
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Creating Space for Child Participation in Local Governance in Tanzania: Save the Children and Children’s Councils
Meda Counzens and Koshuma Mtengeti, 2011
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Tracer Study on Two REPOA Training Courses: Budget Analysis and Public Expenditure Tracking System
Ophelia Mascarenhas, 2011

Latest reports from Tanzania Online

Here are the latest electronic Tanzanians reports added to Tanzania Online, the gateway to information on development issues in Tanzania. All documents are available free on the Internet at www.tzonline.org

The latest synthesized reports from Tanzania Online include the following:

Tanzania Macroeconomic Forecast - October 2011
2011
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Country Strategy Paper 2011-2015. United Republic of Tanzania
United Republic of Tanzania, 2011
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Transforming Tanzania’s Cotton Sector
Ian Anderson, Gatsby / UKaid , 2011
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Doing Business in Tanzania: 2011 Country Commercial Guide for U.S. Companies
U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service and U.S. Department of State, 2011
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Inception Report for Growth and Employment Platform First phase (August 2011- July 2013)
Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania SUA, 2011
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Is water and electricity serving the deserving?
Twaweza , 2011
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Linking Smallholders to Livestock Markets Combining Market and Household Survey Data in Tanzania
FAO, AU-IBAR, ILRI with support from the Gates Foundation
and, in Tanzania, in collaboration with the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development , 2011
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REDD+ benefit sharing in Tanzania: a Case Study by Leo Peskett
REDDnet and Worldbank , 2010
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Mission report Platform for Growth and Employment Tanzania November 28th - December 3rd 2010
UDSM and SUA in Tanzania, 2010
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When is a school not a school?
Uwezo and Twaweza , 2011
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Palgrave Macmillan, a global publisher has joined HINARI

Palgrave Macmillan, a global publisher with over 160 years of independent academic publishing, has joined HINARI offering 81 journals, including the Journal of Public Health Policy.

In the URL below you will find the publishers offering their publications to your country and institution category for the current year (2011) through HINARI: http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/country_offer.php?country=102&institution=4

Latest health e-resources added to the library website