The DHS Fellows Program, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is designed to increase the capacity of countries to conduct further analysis of DHS data. The primary objectives of the program are as follows:

• To teach fellows to analyze DHS datasets, produce result tables, and conduct research with DHS data;
• To strengthen skills that fellows will use to integrate DHS data in teaching;
• To increase the ability of fellows to build the capacity for using DHS data at their home universities

To qualify: Applications must be from teams comprised of three faculty members from the same university who teach in departments of demography, public health, economics, sociology, geography, or other social sciences. The universities they represent must be in Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, or Zimbabwe. Teams must include one senior faculty member. All three team members must be available to attend two workshops organized by ICF International, one at the beginning and one toward the end of the program. Each Fellow must bring a laptop loaded with Stata and/or SPSS for the duration of each workshop. The language for the program is English.

Applications are due on January 20, 2014.

Featuring: Francisco Marmolejo, Tertiary Education Coordinator, Education Human Development Network, The World Bank

Francisco Marmolejo will discuss the role that Higher Education can play in alleviating poverty. Marmolejo is the World Bank’s Lead Tertiary Education Specialist and Coordinator of its Network of Higher Education Specialists. He serves as the World Bank’s focal point on the topic of higher education, and provides advice and support to country-level related projects that the Bank has in more than 60 countries. As part of his activities, he serves as coordinator of the internal thematic group on higher education, which helps to facilitate exchange of ideas among the more than 100 Bank’s staff members and consultants involved in higher education initiative across the globe.

When: Monday, November 18, 2013
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Where: Room 505, 1957 E Street NW
Elliott School of International Affairs

Space is limited. Participants must RSVP.

RSVP: http://go.gwu.edu/marmolejo

Sponsored by the GW Office of International Programs, the International Education Program, and the International Development Studies Program of the Elliott School.

 

The Chicago Humanities Festival website offers a multimedia collection of past events, provides lists of upcoming programs, and is an online humanities community. Check out the offerings for this fall.

Just days before the start of the annual meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, will speak about the state of poverty around the world and the World Bank Group’s efforts to lift millions of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people to higher incomes and opportunities. Six months ago, President Kim unveiled global goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and boost incomes for the poorest 40% of the world’s people. In his address, he will discuss the World Bank Group’s new strategy to reach these ambitious goals and how each of us can be a part of this historic quest to end poverty and create shared prosperity in our lifetime.

A physician and anthropologist, Dr. Kim has dedicated himself to international development for more than two decades, helping to improve the lives of under-served populations worldwide. Dr. Kim previously served as president of Dartmouth College and is a co-founder of Partners in Health (PIH) as well as a former director of the HIV/AIDS Department at the World Health Organization (WHO).

RSVPs are no longer being taken, but the event will be webcast at. http://media.elliott.gwu.edu/live

Date and time: Tuesday, October 1, 2013, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Where: The George Washington University. Sponsored by the Elliott School of International Affairs and the Institute for International Economic Policy.

The Great Ape Conservation Fund is soliciting project proposals for the conservation of apes [gorillas (Gorilla gorilla); chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes); bonobos (Pan paniscus); orangutans (Pongo spp.); and gibbons (family Hylobatidae)] throughout their ranges. The U.S. Government enacted the Great Ape Conservation Act of 2000 in response to the decline of ape populations in Africa and Asia. The Act provides for the conservation and protection of apes by supporting conservation programs of countries within the range of apes, and the projects of persons with demonstrated expertise in the conservation of apes. The Great Ape Conservation Fund supports projects that promote conservation through:

• Applied research on ape populations and their habitats, including surveys and monitoring; • Reducing trade in and consumer demand for bushmeat, pets and other illegal products derived from apes;

• Development and execution of ape conservation management plans; • Compliance with applicable treaties and laws that prohibit or regulate the taking or trade of ape or regulate the use and management of ape habitat;

• Conservation education and community outreach;

• Enhanced protection of at-risk ape populations;

• Efforts to decrease human-ape conflicts;

• Habitat conservation and management;

• Protected area/reserve management in important ape range;

• Strengthening local capacity to implement conservation programs;

• Transfrontier ape conservation; and

• Wildlife inspection, law enforcement, and forensics skills.

Proposed project work should occur within the ape range, or, if work is to be conducted outside of the range, the proposal should show a clear relevance to ape conservation. Applied research projects should address specific management needs and actions, and threats from emerging issues such as disease and climate change that affect the species and their habitats.
U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service

Deadline: December 2, 2013

The 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences has the overall theme “Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds.”

The congress will be hosted by the University of Manchester with the support of Manchester City Council. This is the first world congress to be held in Britain since the initial meeting of the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences in London in 1934. The Congress Agenda is being planned by a UK Organizing Committee which includes anthropologists working in all sub-fields of the discipline. The conference program is available online.