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Director General, National Council of Applied Economic Research, India Shekhar Shah is the Director General of the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). As the CEO of India’s oldest and largest independent economic think tank, he manages NCAER’s wide-ranging research activities across all sectors of the economy, including its extensive data collection, innovation, and curation activities. Prior to joining NCAER, Shah was the World Bank’s Regional Economic Adviser for Sou...

Monitoring and Evaluation Job in Kenya about Food and Nutrition, Protection and Human Rights and Water Sanitation Hygiene, requiring 5-9 years of experience, from CARE; closing on 29 Jan 2021

Liberia: Nineteen Women Benefits from ORWOCH Economic Empowerment Program Liberia: Nineteen Women Benefits from ORWOCH Economic Empowerment Program Share MONROVIA – As Liberia’s economy continues to nosedive, over 19 women have benefited from the Kwekardo Village saving loan program organized by the Organization for Women and Children (ORWOCH). The women, who are mostly single parents and struggling marketers living in the Peace Island Community in Congo town, joined the program in 2020 whe...

Florida International University Search Menu FIU awarded $1M by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help preserve oral history of local communities January 19, 2021 at 5:00pm Florida International University’s Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab (WPHL) has been awarded a $1 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project to collect and preserve the stories of South Floridians.   The project, Community Data Curation: Preserving, Creating, and Narrating Everyday Stories, will l...

Fiscal transparency is always important as an aid to fiscal policy and good budgeting but has becomes critical during the COVID-19 pandemic because of high levels of public spending and debt, to avoid misuse of scarce public funds, and to enhance accountability. The IMFs Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD), in collaboration with the International Budget Partnership (IBP) and with the financial support of the European Union (EU), organized a second edition of the Regional Seminar on Fiscal Transpare...

Program/Project Management Job in Cambodia about Health, requiring 0-2 years of experience, from CHAI; closing on 15 Feb 2021

Emery Mushagalusa Mudinga is a lecturer, researcher and consultant based at the Institute for Rural Development Studies – ISDR Bukavu - DR. Congo. He holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve and a Master’s degree in Development studies. His research focus on land grabs dynamics and peasants resistance in Africa, armed groups dynamics, resource conflicts, peacebuilding and research ethics (with focus on science and knowledge decolonization and rese...

KP govt urged to retain budget for girls education Peshawar January 1, 2021 PESHAWAR: The girls education activists on Thursday asked the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to retain the 70pc of the budget for girls education in the province for the 3rd consecutive year. They made the demand while speaking at a press conference which was organized by Blue Veins, a civil society organization working for promoting the girls education in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The speakers, including Qamar Naseem, Sana ...

fundsforNGOs 2021 Community Grants Program – United States 105SHARES The Community Foundation for South Central New York is seeking applications for its 2021 Community Grants Program. The process is competitive and the maximum award to an organization is $20,000. Types of Support Available The areas of support for which qualified organizations may apply are listed below. The minimum award will be $5,001 and the maximum award will be $20,000. If your request is for $5,000 or under, please util...

Tuesday, 29 December 2020 00:00 -     Permanent Representative Majintha Jayesinghe presents credentials to the UNIDO Ambassador Majintha Jayesinghe presented credentials to United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) Director General Li Yong on 22 December, at the Vienna International Centre, accrediting as the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UNIDO.  The Director General shared his memories on Sri Lanka and commended the progress achieved under the UNID...