October 2020 - One Health and Development Initiative (OHDI)

WHO’s Health for All Film Festival calls for Entries

The World Health Organization (WHO) invites independent film-makers, production companies, NGOs, communities, students, and film schools from around the world to submit their original short films to the 2nd Health for All Film Festival. The film festival was launched in …

Sustainable Rural Livelihoods through Micro-livestock Production

Contributors – Drs Samuel Akpan and Kikiope Oluwarore A few weeks ago, we discussed the thriving Livestock Farming in Nigeria and how the industry has been a source of livelihood and food security. We also explained the various types of …

Apply for the Mongabay Writing Internship on Conservation and Environment

Mongabay offers an internship program, which primarily involves writing environmental news stories for their affiliated news site – Mongabay.com. Interns will be working virtually (at home or wherever they feel most productive) with set deadlines to be met and will …

Africa CDC publishes Framework for One Health Practice in National Public Health Institutes.

Africa Center for Disease Control (CDC), is the institution established to strengthen the capacity and capability of Africa’s public health institutions as well as partnerships to detect and respond quickly and effectively to disease threats and outbreaks, based on data-driven …

Applications open for Training Fellowship on Third-generation Genomics and Bioinformatics in Africa

The Biosciences Eastern and Central Africa at International Livestock Research Institute (BecA-ILRI) Hub, in partnership with its UK-based partners the John Innes Centre (JIC), the Earlham Institute (EI) and Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT), launches an intensive training programme in genomics …

Vacancy for African Swine Fever Communications Officer at OIE

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) is an intergovernmental organisation recognised by the World Trade Organization as the reference Organisation for intergovernmental standards concerning the sanitary safety of international trade of animals and products of animal origin and zoonoses, …

Report – Community-based training on milk hygiene improves knowledge, attitudes and practices of women pastoralists in Borana, Ethiopia

Written by Tezira Lore This article originally appeared on ILRI News Milk and milk products are essential in the diets of the Borana pastoral community in Ethiopia. However, traditional handling and processing of dairy products using basic equipment and infrastructure …

Apply for the African Bird Club Conservation Program

The African Bird Club Conservation (ABC) Program supports small to medium-sized conservation projects in Africa. Since 1996, it has supported a wide variety of projects including training courses, research into threatened species and promotion, and awareness of conservation issues in …

PFAN Fund is supporting climate change adaptation and clean energy projects

The Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN) is a multilateral public private partnership initiated by the Climate Technology Initiative and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Do you have a great climate change adaptation or clean energy project, …

The world needs the contribution of African scientists

Written by Elizabeth Marincola and Thomas Kariuki This article originally appeared on University World News African science matters not only because African people matter but also because people everywhere in the world will thrive only if science is driven by the best …

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Month: October 2020