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Application Deadline: Mid-night (Addis Ababa Time) August 16, 2020    African Union Youth Volunteer Corps … a wind of change!     AU-YVC is a continental development program that recruits and works with youth volunteers, to work in all 54 countries across the African Union. AU-YVC promotes volunteering to deepen…

Deadline: August 15, 2020 THEME: “YEAR OF  THE ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE”   Aspiration 5 of Agenda 2063 envisions an Africa with a strong cultural identity, common heritage, shared values and ethics. This calls for an African cultural renaissance which is pre-eminent and that inculcates the spirit of Pan Africanism; tapping…

The 2020 African Economic Conference (AEC), jointly organized by African Development Bank (AfDB), the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), will be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (or virtually) from 1st to 3rd December 2020 or from the 8th to the 10th of December.    …

Deadline: April 20, 2020 The African Union Office of the Youth Envoy (OYE), this week, launched the African Youth Charter Hustlers initiative.    It is a youth-led Pan-African accountability movement, to engage African youths in continental, regional and country-level advocacy for the reform of service delivery architecture across the continent…

DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15, 2019       The African Governance Platform through its Secretariat based at the Department of Political Affairs, together with the Humanitarian Affairs, Refugees, and Internally Displaced Persons Division (HARDP) of the African Union Commission and in collaboration with the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) will co-convene the 2019…

Deadline: October 31, 2019     About Speak Up Africa Headquartered in Dakar, Senegal, Speak Up Africa is a strategic communications and advocacy organization dedicated to catalysing leadership, enabling policy change, and increasing awareness for sustainable development in Africa – particularly around issues such as Sanitation, immunisation, Malaria and Neglected Tropical…

Application deadline: 01 October |  Location: Lagos, Nigeria  Dates: 18 November 22 November    The global trade in human beings is bigger today than at any time in history. Estimates of the numbers of people caught in modern slavery vary from 21 million to 36 million in an industry worth more…

Deadline: September 3, 2019  at 5 PM EAT     The African Academy of Sciences (The AAS) is launching an Africa Science Desk Journalism Awards to recognise and honour excellent reporting on science and scientific innovation in Africa. The awards also aim to improve and increase coverage of research and…

Application Deadline: 30 August 2019, 23:59 Addis Ababa Time Introduction The Commission of the African Union, through its Youth for Peace (Y4P) Africa Program of the Peace and Security Department will appoint African Youth Ambassadors for Peace (AYAP), one from each of the five (5) regions of Africa. This is…

A consortium of 14 prominent civil society organisations working to advance the implementation of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG) is calling for entries from journalists for the Journalism Awards on the Charter.     The Awards is an initiative to recognise and honour journalists in Africa…