The Organization:

The African Community Internship and Placement Programme (ACIPP) has grown from a small Ghana focused programme into a West-Africa wide operation now encompassing Ghana, Sierra Leone, and soon - Liberia. ACIPP pioneers a new model called "sustainable service", where we aim to reinvest profits into our partner organizations and into building local capacity within the countries in which we operate. See …

“You cannot find redemption until you see the flaws in your own soul, and try to efface them,” wrote the philosopher Martin Buber. “Nor can a people be redeemed until it sees the flaws in its soul and tries to efface them. But whether

it be an individual or a people, whoever shuts out the realization of their flaws is shutting out redemption. We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves. 

Buber’s ideas came to mind as the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency recently…

Through a unique partnership between Georgetown University and Generations for Peace and I am able to travel to Ghana to research at different sport for peace and development organizations. My name is Patty Hester and I have created this blog to share my research, travels, and experiences in Ghana. 

I will be visiting two organizations while in Ghana, Right to Play and Play Soccer. I will have the opportunity to visit multiple sites for each organization while I am there. My research…

By Johan Brosché and Daniel Rothbart

This book examines the continuing devastation in the Darfur region of Sudan, from the perspective of a multiplicity of conflicts of distinct types

The crisis reached its peak in 2003–2004, when certain Arab militias joined…

This post on behalf of REPSSI originally appeared on A View from the Cave.

The first and most challenging exercise of the day when I took a seminar from The OpEd Project required me to fill in the following blanks and share with the group:

Hello, my name…

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PRESS RELEASE 

In 2012, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) global will be celebrating its 60th Anniversary. In its sixty years of existence, the IPPF has grown from a federation of eight founding member organizations in 8 countries with an initial budget of $ 5 000…

Kirsti Shields

United States

“Today’s young girls will teach the next generation about puberty, sexuality, and reproductive health. The conspiracy of silence will have been…

The Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS), an autonomous unit within Addis Ababa University, seeks to expand its team with qualified professionals for various fixed term and consultancy positions in its Africa Peace and Security Programme (APSP), a joint initiative with the African Union Commission. The mission of IPSS is to support the African Union, RECs and other African institutions in the design and development of “African-led solutions” in peace and…

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Africa Undercover, a newly established medium to expose corruption, inept politicians and government officials who embezzle state funds in Africa, has published a damning article accusing Britain of granting entry visa to Julius Maada Bio, the SLPP opposition presidential candidate in…

Four leaders from African organizations sat down to give us their frank feedback about site visits from funders a few years ago. I recently ran across my notes from the discussion, and because they offered such good reminders, I am sharing them here. Organization founders from Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, and Lesotho offer the following important, though too-often-unheard insights from a local group’s perspective.

(Pssst, pay attention, donors and aid workers. This is what your…

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Source: http://www.iss.co.za/iss_today.php?ID=1472

http://allafrica.com/stories/201204250388.html

As Antonovs from bases in Sudan continue to miss their targets amidst the ear-splitting sounds of AK47s in parts of the disputed border areas between Sudan and South Sudan, it is…

Angelica Arbulu

“I am wearing large overalls and am but a couple of months away from maternity leave myself. It dawns on us that there isn’t a chance in hell I’m going to get that job. ”…

Sharing a link to my storify-ed livetweets from last night's panel discussion on foreign policy and humanitarian aid efforts in Uganda and the Congo in response to the international media attention garnered by Invisible Children’s KONY 2012 campaign. Panelists included Maurice Carney of Friends of the Congo, Milton Allimadi of …

One hundred years of African intellectual activism

Naledi Pandor

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/81295

Address by the South African Minister of Science and Technology at the Archie Mafeye memorial lecture.

It is no accident that the founding leaders of post-colonial African countries - men like Nkrumah, Nyerere, Mandela – were able to articulate ideologies and…

Priority Deadline: April 15, 2012 (see below for details)

Atlas Corps is an overseas fellowship for the world's best nonprofit leaders. Our mission is to address critical social issues by developing leaders, strengthening organizations, and promoting innovation through an overseas fellowship of skilled nonprofit professionals.

The Atlas Corps Fellowship is a 12-18 month,…