http://www.IRINnews.org Updated every hour en-gb Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:27:00 GMT United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks, http://www.IRINnews.org Guineans and the international community are watching mediation efforts of Blaise Compaoré, as international investigators begin to probe the 28 September deadly military attack on civilians in the capital Conakry. The latest violence stunned even a nation with a long history of military repression of civilians – an era Guineans had hoped would pass with the death of 24-year leader Lansana Conté and arrival of Moussa Dadis Camara in December 2008. Here is a timeline of some events since independence from France in 1958. DAKAR, 20 November 2009 (IRIN) - Recently a commercial billboard near Guinea’s presidential palace featured three towering question marks on a white background. That image matches the way many Guineans describe their country’s current condition, eight months after Moussa Dadis Camara came to power in a bloodless coup: utter uncertainty. When Camara took power citizens poured into the streets cheering; Guineans say they were celebrating a rupture with the 24-year regime of Lansana Conté. “We hate that the military has taken power again,” a Guinean told IRIN the day of the coup. “But we hate it less than we hated the Conté regime.” Now many Guineans are wondering where the Camara government – which calls itself the National Council for Democracy and Development – is taking the country. Here is a timeline of some events since independence from France in 1958. 23 August 2009 – Coalition of civil society organizations, unions, political parties, religious groups call on Guineans not to allow junta “to confiscate power” 19 August 2009 – Junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara tells journalists whether he runs for president is “in the hands of God” 17 August 2009 – Ruling National Council for Democracy and Development (CNDD) accepts recommendation by civil society organizations, political parties, unions and religious groups to hold presidential election in January 2010, legislative election in March 2010 13 August 2009 – Junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara announces the formation of a national transitional council, called for by national and international groups in March June 2009 – Following debate over the feasibility of holding elections in 2009, civil society organizations, political parties, religious groups and unions form a committee to evaluate election timetable March 2009 – International community calls on CNDD to work with political parties, civil society organizations, unions to form a transitional council March 2009 – Ruling CNDD says it will hold presidential election by end of 2009 February 2009 – Junta arrests son of deceased president Lansana Conté, Ousmane Conté, as part of a crackdown on suspected drug traffickers January 2009 – The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) rejects a military-led transition in Guinea and bars junta members from attending meetings of any decision-making bodies January 2009 – An international contact group on Guinea is formed, including representatives of ECOWAS, the African Union Commission, the European Union, the Mano River Union, the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the UN Security Council 25 December 2008 – Prime Minister Ahmed Tidiane Souaré and other government officials turn themselves in at Alpha Yaya Diallo army barracks, CNDD headquarters 25 December 2008 – Moussa Dadis Camara announces presidential elections would be held after a two-year transition and he would not be a candidate 24 December 2008 – Moussa Dadis Camara proclaims himself president and head of the new National Council for Democracy and Development 23 December 2008 – In the early morning hours government officials announce that President Lansana Conté died the previous evening; confusion reigns as soldiers announce on state media they have dissolved government and taken over, while Prime Minister Ahmed Tidiane Souaré insists the government is intact June 2008 – Police launch protests over salary arrears, provoking deadly clashes with military May 2008 – Soldiers mutiny over pay, with several soldiers and civilians killed or injured in the unrest; Lansana Conté eventually dismisses defence minister May 2008 – Lansana Conté sacks Prime Minister Lansana Kouyaté and names political ally Ahmed Tidiane Souaré , in a move Human Rights Watch said dealt “a serious blow to hopes that mass protest and ‘people power’ could bring reform” May 2007 – Soldiers stage protests over salary arrears and living conditions February 2007 – Following strike and unrest Lansana Conté names Lansana Kouyaté as “consensus” prime minister January 2007 – In January Guineans massively heed another union call for a national strike; hundreds are killed in crackdown by military 2006 – Union-led national strikes paralyse country; several students are killed by security forces in protests over cancelled exams 2005 – Presidential motorcade of Lansana Conté fired upon in the capital Conakry 2003 – Lansana Conté re-elected in an opposition-boycotted poll 2001 – A referendum changes the constitution to allow president to run for a third term and increase the term from five to seven years; opposition rejects the vote as rigged, calls for boycott 2000-01 – Guinean army fights off incursions by rebels at borders with Liberia and Sierra Leone 1998 – Lansana Conté wins presidential election, which opposition denounces as rigged 1996 – Army mutiny. Loyalist troops eventually repulse attacks on the presidential palace 1993 – Lansana Conté wins Guinea’s first multi-party election, which is boycotted by opposition groups and marred by demonstrations 1990 – Guineans vote for new constitution, with a call to end one-party military rule 1989 – Conflict in neighbouring Liberia forces thousands to flee into Guinea; between 1989 and 2002 Guinea would receive some 750,000 refugees from the wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone, thousands more from Côte d’Ivoire after that country’s 2002 rebellion 1984 – President Ahmed Sékou Touré dies in March; Lansana Conté takes power in a coup in April 1970 – Dissidents attack Guinea in an unsuccessful attempt to bring down President Ahmed Sékou Touré; the incident is seen as intensifying Touré’s repression of opponents 1965 – President Ahmed Sékou Touré cuts relations with colonial power France, until 1975 1958 – Independence, with Ahmed Sékou Touré as president np/ic/pt © IRIN. All rights reserved. More humanitarian news and analysis: http://www.irinnews.org http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=85835 Children's rights advocates are taking 20 November, the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), to highlight legal advances, but say when it comes to education, healthcare and protection in conflicts and natural disasters, children are often the first to be deprived of their rights. DAKAR, 20 November 2009 (IRIN) - Children’s rights advocates are taking 20 November, the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), to highlight legal advances, but say when it comes to education, healthcare and protection in conflicts and natural disasters, children are often the first to be deprived of their rights. “The Convention has revolutionized the way children are viewed in our societies,” said Susanna Vilaran with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in a 20 November communiqué. “In many countries…governments, individuals and most importantly children, know [children] should be treated with respect.” The CRC is the most widely ratified human rights treaty. Legal instruments introduced as a result of the CRC include the 2005 UN Security Council Resolution 1612, which established a mechanism to track six violations of children’s rights in conflict, including rape, abduction, killing and maiming, and recruitment into armed forces. The CRC also triggered regional child rights acts and policies, including the 1999 African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and the European Commission’s launch of a child rights strategy. “The CRC has encouraged politicians to listen to children’s views and pushed their rights up the political agenda,” said Save the Children’s child rights adviser and advocate Jennifer Grant. She pointed to a 2001 decision by the Indian Supreme Court directing the government to provide free lunches in government primary schools. This has turned into the world’s largest mid-day meal programme, reaching over 100 million children, according to Grant. In another case the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the Czech Republic had practiced racial discrimination in 2007 by wrongly channeling Roma children into remedial schools; the court awarded damages to affected families. Rights have no meaning if you can’t hold people to account when they are broken National level improvements include the incorporation of children’s codes into 70 countries’ national legislation, say child rights groups. Many national poverty reduction strategies are beginning to call for more funding for children’s access to healthcare, education and social services, say Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) president Mohammed Ibn Chambas and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) West Africa director Gianfranco Rotigliano in a joint statement. “[When] children are better fed, and have access to health facilities...there is a multiplier effect in that the family and community economy is boosted and people may stand a chance of moving beyond the subsistence level,” Rotigliano told IRIN. However 77 million primary-school-age children worldwide are not in school while millions of children are unable to access even basic healthcare, according to the UN. In West Africa three million children die before age five annually and 25 million are out of school, according to UNICEF. For Save the Children’s Grant more accountability is critical. When children’s rights are violated and the national legal system does not protect them, children cannot access an international complaints procedure, she said. “This is a case of age discrimination. Every other UN treaty with reporting obligations has such a mechanism.” An “era of enforcement” is needed to improve the lives of children, said Grant. National governments must make their laws comply with the CRC. “Rights have no meaning if you can’t hold people to account when they are broken.” aj/np © IRIN. All rights reserved. More humanitarian news and analysis: http://www.irinnews.org http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87142 HIV-positive women in western Uganda want fewer children than women not living with the virus, but often do not have access to family planning services, a new study reveals. NAIROBI, 20 November 2009 (IRIN) - HIV-positive women in western Uganda want fewer children than women not living with the virus, but often do not have access to family planning services, a new study reveals. The study of 421 women in the district of Kabarole found that the probability of HIV-positive women wanting to stop childbearing was 6.25 times greater than it was for HIV-negative individuals. “HIV-positive women tended to want fewer children than their HIV-negative counterparts mainly because they are aware of the risks of mother-to-child transmission and do not want to go through the difficulties associated with having an HIV-positive child,” said Walter Kipp, global health professor at the University of Alberta in Canada, and one of the study’s authors. Statistics from the UN Children’s Fund http://www.scribd.com/doc/20951464/PMTCT show that in 2008, only 55 percent of HIV-positive pregnant women received antiretroviral treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission; close to 30,000 Ugandan children are infected with HIV at birth every year. Kipp noted that the survey’s results highlight the urgent need to integrate family planning into HIV services. “Family planning in Uganda is not well developed, and if women want to stop having children, often they have no access to contraceptive pills or other family planning methods,” he said. According to the Ministry of Health, 41 percent of Ugandan women who would like to stop having children have no access to family planning services. The country has the third-highest population growth rate in the world; only Yemen and Niger have higher rates. Kipp noted there was a need to harmonize the messages of family planning groups, which tended to recommend the use of hormonal contraception over condoms for contraception, and HIV groups, which emphasized condom use for prevention. “For HIV-positive women, we would usually recommend dual protection, which is the use of both a hormonal contraceptive and condoms,” he added. A recent analysis http://journals.lww.com/aidsonline/Abstract/2009/11001/Benefits_and_costs_of_expanding_access_to_family.14.aspx published in the Journal of the International AIDS Society found that family planning was cost-effective for preventing HIV transmission and unintended pregnancies and would also reduce infant and maternal mortality and result in fewer orphans. The survey noted there was a need for education to inform the population on the benefits of family planning and end misconceptions around the subject. “There is a belief that hormonal contraception can affect future fertility, and that it may lead to malformed children in the future,” Kipp said. “However, the main barrier that needs to be overcome is the lack of availability of these services for women who need them.” kr/oa/mw © IRIN. All rights reserved. More humanitarian news and analysis: http://www.irinnews.org http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87125 Renewed clashes in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have led to a further wave of refugees, leaving corpse-littered villages in the affected area deserted, say humanitarian officials. BRAZZAVILLE, 20 November 2009 (IRIN) - Renewed clashes in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have led to a further wave of refugees, leaving corpse-littered villages in the affected area deserted, say humanitarian officials. About 100 people are thought to have died in clashes over fishing rights in DRC’s South Ubangi district, which lies in Equateur province. Others are believed to have drowned while crossing the Ubangi river, which separates the two Congos. "Today we have 30,600 displaced persons. We have had a massive influx since yesterday [19 November] because of a resumption in fighting," Rufin Mafouta, head of the NGO Médecins d’Afrique in Impfondo, the main town in the Republic of Congo’s (ROC) northern Likouala department, told IRIN. Likouala is located about 800km north of the capital, Brazzaville. "There was a week we had just 24,000 refugees. The number has quickly risen because of a resumption in fighting in towns and villages in the DRC," Mafouta said. Conditions are harsh for the refugees. "They are exposed to the bad weather,” Mafouta said. “The sanitary conditions remain worrying. We have recorded some cases of diarrhoea and acute respiratory infections and skin diseases among the children.” “In Eboko, we carried out an evaluation and found there are a lot of unaccompanied children. They lost their parents,” he added. “There are also many pregnant women.” An 18 November update by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Kinshasa said four children had died of diarrhoea in Eboko. A recent interagency mission to the South Ubangi villages of Dongo, Tangala, Ozene and Kungu found Dongo deserted, with corpses still strewn in the streets, stated the OCHA report. Houses, shops and other property were also burned. Congolese police deployed in the area are afraid for their health. The refugees include members of the DRC’s navy, which patrols the Ubangi. "We have been forced to flee with our families because we neither have weapons nor ammunition [to] protect ourselves," Wazaba Paluku, a sergeant, told IRIN in the ROC village of Dongou, where sailors had taken refuge in a police station. About 70 percent of the refugees are women and children, 25 percent are young people, with the rest elderly persons, according to Boubacar Ben Diallo, head of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) crisis unit. Hospitals reported receiving people with bullet and machete injuries. DRC's ambassador to the ROC, Esther Kirongozi, said her government had recently set up a special commission to find a lasting solution to the crisis. DRC authorities also launched an appeal for its citizens to return home.  Aid agencies recently distributed about 15 tonnes of food and non-food items such as insecticide-treated bed nets, cooking pots, water jerry cans and blankets to the refugees in Betou, Boyele, Dongo and Impfondo following a joint UN and ROC ministry evaluation mission. “The [donation] is inadequate but we have been forced to distribute [it], in the meantime [awaiting] other help,” noted UNHCR's Diallo. According to the police, some of the refugees are making their way back to their DRC villages across Ubangi River to harvest their crops before crossing back to the ROC. ai-lmm/aw/am/mw © IRIN. All rights reserved. More humanitarian news and analysis: http://www.irinnews.org http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87136 Two years after Cyclone Sidr hit the southern coastal districts of Bangladesh, many of the survivors are still homeless and at severe risk from further disasters, officials say. BARGUNA, 20 November 2009 (IRIN) - Two years after Cyclone Sidr hit the southern coastal districts of Bangladesh, many of the survivors are still homeless and at severe risk from further disasters, officials say.   Cyclone Sidr lashed the southern coastal regions of Bangladesh on 15 November 2007. Thirty districts were affected, with more than 3,400 deaths. Damage to property, livestock and crops was estimated at US$1.7 billion, with half of that in the housing sector, according to the government.   Despite aid efforts, victims still complain of a lack of assistance to rebuild their homes, while officials say more cyclone shelters are needed to protect communities from future storms.   Meanwhile, crucial work to prevent flooding remains under-funded.   Because of the country's low-lying deltaic topography, the southern coastal areas are extremely vulnerable to floods, high tides and cyclonic storm surges.   Extensive flood embankment networks provide this region with critical protection from these natural calamities, but Sidr damaged a large part, leaving the inhabitants of six coastal districts vulnerable to tidal waves and storm surges.   According to the Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB), which maintains these embankments, about 46 percent or 2,341km of the 5,107km of flood embankments protecting the southern regions were partially or completely destroyed by Sidr.   Repair work to the embankments has yet to begin properly, with a lack of funding cited as the primary reason. About $100 million is required, according to BWDB estimates.   “We have yet to receive the funds to start the repair works on the flood embankments. The process is going on and hopefully within a short time we will be able to start repairing the embankments,” Abdur Rab, BWDB’s senior engineer in Barisal district, told IRIN.   Of the six coastal districts affected by Sidr, Barguna was worst hit. Most of its flood embankments were washed away and the people are faced with the daily predicament of tidal seawater inundating their land.   “Every day, during the tides, brackish seawater gets into the croplands, fouling up the fertile topsoil,” Abdul Mazid, BWDB’s executive engineer in Barguna district, told IRIN.   “Soil salinity is increasing alarmingly. Almost 1,400ha of croplands in Barguna are regularly inundated by seawater,” he said. “The entire southern coastal region is now vulnerable because of the damaged embankments.”   Lacking proper shelter   “Nearly half a million people who were displaced by Sidr are still without proper housing and need rehabilitation,” said Abul Kashem, national councillor with the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS).   In Bagerhat district, farmer Jainal Abedin, 30, said he lost his father, his home and all his possessions to Sidr.   “I am still living in a hovel made of plastic sheets and debris. I spent the 5,000 taka [$73], given to me by the NGOs for rebuilding my home, on food,” Abedin, who lives in the area of Sharankhola, told IRIN.   “It has been two years since the cyclone, but I still don’t know what the future holds for me and my family,” he said. The BDRCS is working with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), which has built 1,250 cyclone core shelters, sturdier homes that can withstand a cyclone.   According to the government’s Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), the district of Bagerhat is also woefully lacking in proper cyclone protection shelters.   And for the 550,000 people living at risk in Barguna, at least 490 cyclone protection shelters are required, say LGED sources.   At present, there are 113 cyclone protection shelters in the district, which can support only 140,000 people.   “Ours is an extremely disaster-prone area, but the number of cyclone protection centres is minimal,” Kamal Uddin, chairman of Sharankhola sub-district council in Bagerhat, told IRIN. “The number … must be increased to minimize human casualties during natural disasters.”     ao/ey/mw © IRIN. All rights reserved. More humanitarian news and analysis: http://www.irinnews.org http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87126 In today's programme - Dhegeyso barnaamijka maanta<br> · Mogadishu: 100 illegal Somali migrants expelled from Saudi Arabia<br> · Galmudug: Mediation bid in power struggle<br> · Weather forecast: No risk of flooding in the Juba and Shabelle river basins<br> · Message: UXOs awareness<br> NAIROBI, 20 November 2009 (IRIN) - In today's programme - Dhegeyso barnaamijka maanta Mogadishu: 100 illegal Somali migrants expelled from Saudi Arabia Galmudug: Mediation bid in power struggle  Weather forecast: No risk of flooding in the Juba and Shabelle river basins Message: UXOs awareness © IRIN. All rights reserved. More humanitarian news and analysis: http://www.irinnews.org http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87124 CONTENTS: JOHANNESBURG, 20 November 2009 (IRIN) - CONTENTS: UGANDA: HIV-positive women need family planning services, study shows KENYA: Stigma holding back the fight against TB SOUTH AFRICA: World Cup to help create HIV awareness AFRICA: Trying to give sex workers safer alternatives KENYA: The million man cut UGANDA: AIDS Commission takes new direction in prevention ZAMBIA: Orphans grow up without cultural identity GLOBAL: Global Fund approves $2.4 billion in new grants ANGOLA: Esperança Mutamba, "I'm living this double life" EVENTS/RESOURCES 1. Case Study Fair on Livelihood-based Social Protection, 8-9 December, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Johannesburg, South Africa 2. The Guide to Community Involvement at AIDS 2010 VACANCIES 1. Executive Director, Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health (APCOM) - Bangkok, Thailand 2. Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programmes - Nairobi, Kenya UGANDA: HIV-positive women need family planning services, study shows HIV-positive women in western Uganda want fewer children than women not living with the virus, but often do not have access to family planning services, a new study reveals. Full report: http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=87125 KENYA: Stigma holding back the fight against TB When Dorothy*, a single mother of five, told her neighbours in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, she had tuberculosis (TB), she expected sympathy and maybe even offers of help. Instead, she found herself so severely ostracized, she felt she had to move out. Full report: http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=87108 SOUTH AFRICA: World Cup to help create HIV awareness In less than seven months South Africa will host the world's biggest single sporting event - the FIFA World Cup. The chance to reach millions of local and visiting football fans presents a golden opportunity, not only for the country's business and tourism sectors, but also for its efforts to combat HIV/AIDS. Full report: http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=87109 AFRICA: Trying to give sex workers safer alternatives A plan by Malawi to offer prostitutes low-interest loans to start small businesses in return for abandoning sex work is generating controversy in a country where women are disproportionately affected by high rates of poverty and HIV. Full report: http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=87087 KENYA: The million man cut The Kenyan government is expanding services to meet the growing demand for voluntary medical male circumcision after the launch of a national campaign a year ago. Full report: http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=87074 UGANDA: AIDS Commission takes new direction in prevention The Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) is revamping its national HIV information campaign after HIV prevention messages were less successful than hoped. Full report: http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=87053 ZAMBIA: Orphans grow up without cultural identity Abigail Mwanashimba has been looking after her five siblings since the age of eight, when her parents died of AIDS-related illnesses. She is now 19 years old, and without relatives to represent her at her lobola (bride price) negotiations, she was forced to hire traditional counsellors to organise the process of marriage according to the tribal customs. Full report: http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=87056 GLOBAL: Global Fund approves $2.4 billion in new grants The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved US$2.4 billion in its ninth round of grants, bringing the total amount of approved funding since its inception in 2001 to $18.4 billion. Full report: http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=87031 ANGOLA: Esperança Mutamba, "I'm living this double life" Esperança Mutamba (not her real name), who has been living with the virus for 10 years and works as HIV/AIDS counsellor in the Angolan capital, Luanda, is still not ready to publicly disclose her HIV status. Full report: http://www.plusnews.org/HOVReport.aspx?ReportId=87064 EVENTS/RESOURCES 1. Case Study Fair on Livelihood-based Social Protection (LBSP), 8-9 December, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Johannesburg, South Africa The FAO's Regional Emergency Office for Southern Africa will be holding a Case Study Fair to showcase country experiences with LBSP programmes aimed at orphaned or vulnerable children. Participants from community-based organizations from across southern Africa and Kenya will also be on-hand to share the challenges and successes they have experienced in implementing their own LBSP programming. For more information or to attend, email Laura.LopezGonzalez@fao.org 2. The Guide to Community Involvement at AIDS 2010 This online guide was created by the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) to help users better understand and participate in the international AIDS conference in Vienna, Austria, from July 18-23, 2010. It includes sections on issues specific to People Living with HIV, scholarships, tips on how to do advocacy, activism and networking at the conference and on how to submit abstracts, workshops and programme ideas. To view the guide, go to: http://www.aids2010community.org/ VACANCIES 1. Executive Director, Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health (APCOM) - Bangkok, Thailand Responsibilities: - Work towards implementation of APCOM’s strategic plan, which includes articulating and fulfilling the APCOM vision - Identify strategic opportunities to communicate, inspire and engage people in supporting and advancing APCOM's mission - Raise the organization's profile and influence - Identify, develop and maintain successful relationships with a variety of donors, including multilateral and bilateral partners, as well as corporate donors, foundations and individuals - Assist the Board to develop, present and implement annual operational plans, lead all fiscal and budgeting activities, and report to the Board and other stakeholders on APCOM's progress in implementing its plans - Recruit, hire, and provide leadership, mentoring and supervision to APCOM's diverse, multi-national staff Requirements: - Academic degree in related field, such as law, public policy, international relations, public health, social work or social sciences, or a minimum of five years experience in programming and services for MSM and HIV issues, or an equivalent combination of experience and training - Exceptional management and supervision skills in senior-level management positions with non-profit, charitable organizations, or professional management training, or a combination of experience and training - Proven track record in managing and/or completing fundraising with institutional, UN system, government, corporate or individual donors - Experience that demonstrates a passion for and commitment to successfully advocating for MSM and HIV issues internationally, and challenging stigma and discrimination associated with homophobia - Excellent verbal and written English language skills with experience in public speaking in international settings - Besides English, fluency in one or more languages of the Asia-Pacific region is highly desirable Application deadline: 30 November For more details and to apply, go to: http://msmasia.org/news_article/items/apcom_seeks_executive_leader.html 2. Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programmes - Nairobi, Kenya Responsibilities: - Provide technical support in the planning for the design and implementation of ME activities required for ICAP HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment programme - Develop, implement, and establish systematic monthly reporting procedures for ME for patient monitoring and to assess programmatic progress in Kenya - Help develop ME tools including clinical and patient tracing forms, medication tracking forms - Refine, implement and evaluate patient tracing systems - Provide technical assistance to health care facilities including review of performance and quality of service delivery, on-the-job mentoring for health workers, and evaluation and use of strategic information Requirements: - Advanced degree in epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, international health, or related discipline - At least eight years of proven professional experience in the design, implementation and management of health monitoring and evaluation systems, with at least five years of experience in monitoring and evaluation of HIV programmes - Strong data management and analysis skills Application deadline: 30 November To apply, send CV and referees to the HR and Administration Manager, ICAP Kenya: em2716@columbia.edu © IRIN. All rights reserved. More humanitarian news and analysis: http://www.irinnews.org http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87135 IRIN-CEA Weekly Round-up 506 for 14 - 20 November 2009 NAIROBI, 20 November 2009 (IRIN) - 87125,87117,87108,87106,87082,87081,87074,87063,87053 © IRIN. All rights reserved. More humanitarian news and analysis: http://www.irinnews.org http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87128 IRIN-HOA Weekly Round-up 493 for 14 - 20 November 2009 NAIROBI, 20 November 2009 (IRIN) - 87116,87113,87106,87098,87081,87077,87057,87055 © IRIN. All rights reserved. More humanitarian news and analysis: http://www.irinnews.org http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87127 . DAKAR, 20 November 2009 (IRIN) - 87142,87122,87110,87091,87068,87059 © IRIN. All rights reserved. More humanitarian news and analysis: http://www.irinnews.org http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87143