Public Forum - Proposed Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission
KENYA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION, URGENT ACTION FUND, KENYA NATIONAL COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
KICC (Shimba Hills Meeting Room)
July 23 2008 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
KNCHR, KHRC, and the Urgent Action Fund Africa, invite you to a Public Forum to discussed the proposed Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC).
Speaker: Prof. Makau Mutua (Former Chair on TJRC)
Topic: Transitional Justice in Post Election Kenya: The case for an effective Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission
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Fellowship Announcement
CGIAR / ICRISAT
Post-Doctoral Fellow-Agricultural Economics
Deadline: July 31 2008
ICRISAT seeks a Post-Doctoral Fellow (PDF) to undertake applied economics research in relation to improving the productivity and market competitiveness of dryland legumes (groundnuts, chickpea and pigeonpea) in collaboration with a team of scientists. The PDF will be based at ICRISAT’s Regional Program for Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Email: P.Ndungu@cgiar.org (Phillip Ndungu)
Web: www.icrisat.org
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CFSK / EDUCATION IN KENYA
Incorporating the 1st National ICT in Education
August 26-28
At this conference, we plan to discuss fundamental issues affecting the education business by bringing together key sector players to share experiences and best practices. We hope to start a process by which private sector players in education can develop a common position on strategic issues and a structured framework for engaging with Government on those issues. Most importantly, we hope to begin developing processes of establishing and promoting Kenya as a Centre of Excellence and Regional Hub for Education services in the context of Vision 2030 and bilateral and multilateral conventions on trade in services.
Tel: +254 20 222 8055
Fax: +254 20 221 2913
Email: info@educationinkenya.com
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Venta Club Temple Point
Malindi-Kenya
September 4 -7 2008
Whereas government and public sectors remain the largest employers, Africa is facing significant challenges in dealing with 70% of the unemployed youth. Job prospects for college and university graduates remain bleak yet they form the most energetic group to actively contribute to economic development. The youth need to engage in creative thinking and entrepreneurship with a mind focused on business. Is this achievable?
Tel: +254202731497
Email: info@irenkenya.com
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Deadline: August 15 2008
This competition seeks to identify and recognize women scientists in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) who are engaged in innovative and pioneering research and communicating the outputs (knowledge, technologies, approaches) for enhancing agricultural performance in SSA. It also targets women who are repackaging and communicating existing knowledge to improve agricultural productivity and livelihoods of rural communities. Women scientists who are advocating for policy change to optimize benefits of scientific and technological developments are also targeted.
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Natural Resource Management and Climate Change in Africa: Issues Opportunities and Challenges
Nairobi, Kenya
September 15-17, 2008
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of AERC, an international conference on climate change will be held in Nairobi from September 15 to September 17 2008. These issues are particularly relevant for poverty reduction measures, both because of the region's heavy reliance on commodity exports and because agriculture forms the backbone of the continent's economies and livelihoods of its poor. The conference will gear up African policy makers to proactively set in place mechanisms to confront these twin challenges.
Contact: The Executive Director - AERC
Tel: +254 20 2734150
Fax: +254 20 2734173
Email: exec.dir@aercafrica.org
Web: www.aercafrica.org
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Nairobi, Kenya
September 17-18
The Humanitarian Development Program (HDP) is pleased to announce the 3rd Summit to bring together key executives in the aid and development community wishing to work closer with the international business sector. The 2008 HDP Summit will be centred around disaster management and preparedness with a concentrated meetings-based two days focusing on partnership and procurement with NGOs, donor agencies and the United Nations. Disaster Management & Preparedness (Acts of Nature & Acts of Humans) This will be the central theme of the summit with special focus on how the relationship between the aid & development community and the international business community can fulfill the specific aims of more>
Email: info@developmentprogram.org.
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Leisure Lodge
Mombasa, Kenya
October 5-9, 2008
The best and the brightest minds in banana research and industry from all over Africa will converge in Kenya later this year to develop a 10-year strategic roadmap that would harmonize and guide efforts to promote the marketing and trade of the crop in the continent. Organizers are pleased to announce that the earlier postponed Banana 2008 conference (www.banana2008.com) on "Banana and plantain in Africa: Harnessing international partnerships to increase research impact" will take place at the Leisure Lodge Resort in Mombasa, Kenya on 5-9 October 2008. This is the first-ever Pan-African banana conference that links research to markets within the African context. Interest in this event is massive; the conference will be opened by Anna Tibaijuka, Undersecretary-General of the United Nations and Director of UN-HABITAT, and Karl Falkenberg, Deputy Director General for Trade of the European Commission.
Contact: Dr. Thomas Dubois - Chair of the Banana 2008 Organizing Committee
IITA - Uganda
Tel: +256 752 787808
Email: t.dubois@cgiar.org
Web: www.banana2008.com
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Request For Information On the Post 2007 Human Rights Violations
Kenya
Ongoing
The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights is a public institution established by an act or parliament in 2007 as the national focal point in the promotion and protection of human rights.
The Commission has commenced investigations into serious human rights violations that have taken place in Kenya following the disputed 2007 presidential elections results. Under Section 16 of this Statute, the Commission is mandated to investigate, on its own initiative or upon complaint made by any person or group of persons, the violation of any human rights in the country.
At the completion of the investigations, the Commission will release a report identifying the patterns of serious human rights violations that have taken place, and where there is sufficient information, naming the persons with the greatest responsibility for the violations that should be further investigated.
The Commission is appealing to members of the public as well as organizations with vital and credible information, particularly concerning the high level persons responsible for inciting, organizing, planning and carrying out the serious human rights violations to contact the Commission and share their information. The information received will be treated in strict confidence.
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
1st Floor, CVS Plaza, Lenana Road
P.O. Box 74359-00200 Nairobi, KENYA
Tel: +254 20 271 7908
Mobile: +254 710 765209
Email: election2007@knchr.org
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