The Talent Peter van Tilburg Foundation was founded on the 24th of October 1991 in the Netherlands and was named after the father of the founder Mrs. Yvonne Mulder – van Tilburg. The Talent foundation PvT is a small charity fund.

Purpose

Talent foundation supports Talents: individual young people, between 15 and 30 years old, worldwide, who lack opportunities in developing their talents and skills. The Foundation supports them in realizing their dreams. These talents are the stronger individuals living in a poor environment. In the field of sports, arts, culture, and education the Talents are supported in realizing their goals using the set up of small businesses.

Project Criteria

• only those projects will be supported that are directed to the support of individual people.
• only for youngsters who do not receive any other type of support.
• the projects are individual and do not require a large amount of money.
• the youngster who is eligible for support needs to have a mentor/tutor who supervises his/her progress and welfare (the tutor/mentor will be the contact person/intermediary).
• the youngster needs to have the sincere intention to utilize the funds as a positive example to his/her social environment and the country.

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The Refugee foundation provides direct assistance to refugees and displaced persons in Netherlands.Resistance heroes Gerrit Jan van Goedhart and Cees Brouwer are the founders of Refugee Foundation.

The foundation provides life-saving relief such as water, shelter and medical care to refugees.

Eligible Countries: Afghanistan, Burundi, CAR,DR Congo, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Haiti, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Yemen, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia, Malaysia, Mali, Myanmar (Burma),Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, North Caucasus, Uganda, Pakistan, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Chad, Turkey, Zimbabwe, Southern Sudan

Themes

• Emergency aid
• Reconstruction
• Medical care
• Malnutrition
• Water & Sanitation
• Sexual violence
• Demining
• Education
• Urban Refugees
• Protection
• Economic aid

Foundation’s Latest Programs

1. Improving healthcare Nigeria
2. Lifesaving emergency in Yemen
3. Assistance to Displaced Iraqi children
4. Lifesaving aid for Burundian refugees
5. Improving medical care for mother and child in Mogadishu

To apply for the grants the applicants can visit the given website.

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The Bernard van Leer Foundation is an international grant making foundation based in The Hague which focuses to improve opportunities for children up to age 8 who are growing up in socially and economically difficult circumstances.The foundation also aims to leverage impact by working with influential allies to advocate for young children.

The grant-making works primarily through supporting programs implemented by local partners in selected countries. The partners include public, private and community-based organizations. Working through partnerships is intended to build local capacity, promote innovation and flexibility, and help to ensure that the work they fund is culturally and contextually appropriate.

In 2014 the Bernard van Leer Foundation made grants totaling EUR 15,605,000.

Focus Areas

• Children
• Narcotics
• Drugs & Crime
• Youth & Adolescents
• Violence Prevention
• Early Child Development
• Education

Focus Countries

The foundation has three programme goals for 2010 to 2020 – Taking quality early learning to scale, Reducing violence in young children’s lives, and Improving young children’s living conditions in

• Brazil
• India
• Israel
• Netherlands
• Peru
• Tanzania
• Turkey
• Uganda

Eligibility Criteria

• Organizations in the selected countries mentioned above are eligible to apply for grants to the Bernard Van Leer Foundation.
• Foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals from grant seekers.

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Foundation to Earth, Mankind through Inspiration and Initiative (FEMI) offers opportunities to people, young and old, to achieve a more dignified existence in a more sustainable manner.

The FEMI Foundation offers inspiration based on mutual respect and equality in collaboration and rapport towards active involvement and creativity. It initiates and connects in every area of well-being and welfare while recognising everybody’s own responsibility and individuality.

In collaboration with its partners FEMI is autonomously developing several projects in India, Nepal, Tanzania and Peru. In these projects it operate in close collaboration with the local communities.

FEMI Focus Areas

The integral approach that FEMI uses will ensure attention to sustainable development, education, health, the certainty of nourishment, improvement of the income and the infrastructure.

Focus Countries

• India
• Kenya
• Nederland
• Nepal
• Peru
• Tanzania

How to Apply

The foundation is always looking for partners in the local communities to work in close collaboration with. To apply for support, please contact the foundation.

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ASML Foundation aims to give children in underprivileged communities a better start in life.

The foundation support initiatives across the world that enables children to attend school in places where their access to education is limited, or projects that improve the quality of education or provide vocational training for the youth and young adults.

Each year, ASML Foundation co-sponsors approximately 30 educational projects in more than 20 countries.

Aim

The Foundation’s aim is to improve the lives of underprivileged children through initiatives that enable better access to education and better quality of education.

Focus Areas

• Educational projects aimed at children
• Executed in countries where ASML operates
• Resulting in a positive impact on the lives of children in underprivileged areas as well as their wider communities.
• Focus on technological education

Since 2002, ASML Foundation has provided financial support to over 250 education projects worldwide, representing more than €5.5 million in grants.

Eligibility Criteria

Initiatives across the world that enable children to attend school in places where their access to education is limited, or projects that improve the quality of education or provide vocational training for the youth and young adults are eligible to apply for the funds.

How to Apply

Interested applicants can apply for funding via given website.

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Triodos Foundation has three areas: Nature and Environment, People and Society and International Cooperation. Within these areas, it focuses on the themes of organic farming, renewable energy, arts and culture, animal welfare, poverty alleviation and sustainable independent solidarity with people in developing countries.

The Foundation aims to promote and take initiatives that will give an impetus to social innovation or contribute to a more conscious use of money.

Focus Areas

1. Nature & Environment
2. People & Society
3. International Cooperation

Nature & Environment

Within the area Nature and Environment will focus on initiatives aimed at a long-term change. For example renewable energy projects, organic farming or search for food and health.

People & Society

The Stage People and Society is very varied. The initiatives are an expression of persons and / or foundations that are aimed at improving and inspiration to quality of life in our society.

International Cooperation

International cooperation within the work focuses on fair trade, clean energy, agriculture, health, water and education. Projects encourage people to get out of the spiral of unemployment and poverty. Access to education and sustainable financial services locally in this context is crucial.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants applying for any of the three categories must have a project that

• Falls within the area of the category applied
• well thought-out project plan and financing scheme
• consciously and responsibly handle money
• aimed at a sustainable society
• undertakes activities that may spread further
• reaches a lot of people or has a major impact
• inspiring and innovative be
• a good network and make use of available expertise
• working on a professional level
• realistic plans and concrete results
• at least two other organizations participating in the financing
• have an independent board or adequate supervision.

How to Apply

Applicants must first read the application criteria for each category to check if their project is eligible. Applicants can then submit their applications via email.

Each applicant will get a response within eight weeks.

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Plan Netherlands is working on sustainable poverty reduction and lasting improvements in the living conditions of children, with special attention to equal rights and opportunities for girls.

Focus Areas

1. Protection from Violence
2. Education
3. Work and Food security
4. Water, Sanitation and hygiene (WASH)
5. Emergency Aid

Focus Regions/Countries

• Latin America: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru
• Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Cameroon, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Southern Sudan
• Asia: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Philippines, India, Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam

How to Apply

The Foundation works in partnership with corporate partners, institutional donors and social partners in the mentioned countries.

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The Cordaid Organization began due to concern of people about alleviating the suffeing of people in war-torn Europe.The organization has been helping the communities that we take for granted since 1914.

Cordaid creates opportunities for the world’s poorest, most vulnerable and excluded people. Regardless of race or religion, Cordaid provides world citizens with an opportunity to make their voices heard.
The Foundation aims at creating a world where its Global Common Goods can be shared, space for diversity can be made and flourishing communities can be created to reach out and work with the vulnerable around the world.

The organization works closely with a network of 617 partner organizations in 38 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America as well as providing help to disadvantaged groups in the Netherlands itself.

Funding Information

As one of the largest NGOs in the Netherlands, Cordaid raises and receives funds from both governmental and other institutional donors, companies and private and family contributors to finance its international development and cooperation activities.

Mission

The organization’s mission is to bring about transformation in societies around the world so that they become more just, more inclusive and more sustainable.

Thematic Areas

• Healthcare
• Disaster response
• Entrepreneurship
• Women’s leadership
• Child and education
• Extractives
• Food security
• Security and justice
• Urban matters
• Investments
• Private initiative
• Cordaid in the Netherlands

Cordaid helps organizations to reach their social objectives by matching the organizations with development project or theme that suits the organizations need.

Interested applicants can apply via address given on the website.

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The Turing Foundation is a private Charity based in Netherlands which was established in 2006 by Pieter Geelen and his wife, using the wealth he acquired as co-founder of Tom Tom NV, a company listed at the Dutch stock exchange.

Since it was founded, the Turing Foundation has made donations or allocated donations for 300 (multi-) year projects totaling about €25,000,000.

Goals of the Foundation

• to enable and facilitate education for children around the world
• to let people in the Netherlands enjoy art
• to protect nature
• to fight leprosy and aid its victims

Focus Areas

• Art
• Nature
• Education
• Leprosy

Projects and Programs

• Art
  • Painting Exhibitions
  • Publications of Dutch Property
  • Live performances on classical music
• Nature
  • Protection and sustainable management of de Nurseries of the sea
  • organic agriculture and cattle breeding in developing countries
• Education
  • providing and improving education in developing countries
• Leprosy
  • scientific research in the field of diagnostics and treatment of leprosy

How to Apply

• Interested applicants can send their applications or project summaries at the address given on the website.
• Applications must be sent in the same manner as required for each project.

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The H.G. Boumeester Foundation offer grants in its three categories-

1. Education
2. Asian Culture
3. Flora & Fauna

Education

The H.G. Boumeester Foundation looks to support people in Asia and Africa who evidently possess talent but do not have sufficient or possibly any means to cover the costs of an education in the Netherlands or the UK in one of the following fields:

1. agriculture
2. forestry
3. water management
4. art
5. medicine (only in the Netherlands)

Asian Culture

The H.G. Boumeester foundation aims to fund projects that will contribute to an increase of the understanding and thereby conservation of the cultures – with an emphasis on the arts – of

• Bhutan
• India
• Korea
• Papua New Guinea
• Thailand
• Cambodia
• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Philippines
• Vietnam
• China
• Japan
• Nepal

The foundation, for example, supports projects that propagate the cultures of these countries by means of an exhibition, performance, concert or publication in countries other than the ones mentioned above. Art related research into these cultures is also eligible for funding.

Eligibility Criteria

• Only applications by registered charities or organizations that can show a copy of their constitution or set of rules are eligible.
• The foundation does not grant applications by individuals.
• There are no geographical restrictions as to the locality of the applicant, but there should be a demonstrable connection between the proposed project and its contribution to the increase of understanding and thereby conservation of the cultures of the countries mentioned above.

Flora & Fauna

The H.G. Boumeester foundation offers support to nature conservation projects in Europe and Africa, giving priority to the following projects over others:

• Projects intended to the preservation of the flora and fauna of the United Kingdom, the Benelux, Hungary and South-east Africa.
• Projects that seek to precipitate long-term conservation benefits.
• Projects that give reason to assume that they can become self-supporting or be able to levy further funds over time.
• Projects that are initiated and/or executed by volunteers.
• Projects that pay considerable attention to their educational impact.

Eligibility Criteria

• The H.G. Boumeester foundation invites individuals, registered charities and organizations that can show a copy of their constitution or set of rules to apply for a grant.
• The foundation explicitly does not grant applications by institutes or organizations with general objectives.

How to Apply

Applicants can apply for the funds under all three categories when invited by the Trust.

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The Rabobank Foundation supports farmers abroad by helping them to organise and by giving them access to expertise, funding and markets to sell their product. The fund helps agribusinesses to pre-finance purchase, processing and product sales. The Rural Fund finances sustainable value chains in coffee, cocoa, honey, cotton, spices, nuts, peppers, soya and canned and dried vegetables.

Being established in 1973 in Netherlands, the Rabobank Foundation works to improve “the lives of the underprivileged and disadvantages groups of people in society by providing them with the opportunity to live full and independent lives.” It provides funding to NGOs in which half of its funding support is for projects in Netherlands while the other half is allotted to development interventions in developing countries.

Focus countries

The Rabo Rural Fund operates in the following countries-

• Africa: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia
• Asia: Philippines, India, Indonesia, Laos and Vietnam
• Latin America: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru.

Grant Size

The Rabo Rural Fund provides short-term finance as working capital to producer organisations and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The usual term of such loans is one year. The size of the loan generally varies between €200.000 and €1.5 million.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Foundation supports rural poor in the developing countries. NGOs that work on microfinance and cooperatives are eligible to apply.
• It also provides funding support to microfinance organizations, operating independently and providing services to the communities.
• Agribusinesses and cooperatives that have outgrown donations and microcredit but are not yet eligible for standard bank loans can apply for this loan.

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Maagdenhuis is acting since 1970 as a fund dedicated to support small-scale projects.

Mission

Maagdenhuis mission is to support social projects through a financial contribution and / or through advice and guidance.

The work of Maagdenhuis includes the Netherlands, the former Netherlands Antilles, Senegal, Togo and Suriname.

Funding Information

Maagdenhuis provide funding of up to € 10.000 approximately.

Focus Areas

• Meeting and meaning
• Empowerment
• Strengthening informal groups
• Complementing education
• Improving living conditions
• Assistance to vulnerable groups
• Abroad
• Own projects and investments

Past Programs

• Caring for orphans
• Be girls in the courtyard
• Care for the elderly and sick
• Impatient facilities for the elderly

  How to Apply

• Interested applicants can apply by sending their applications via mail at the address given on the website.
• Applications must consist
  • Project plan, project budget and financing scheme
  • Statutes
  • Extract Chamber of Commerce (signed and no older than one year)
  • Substantive report of organization
  • Financial statements of the last year

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Deadline: 11 September 2015

Young Africans aged between 18 to 31 years making outstanding achievement are invited for Nominations for Future Awards 2015.

The Future Awards Africa are a set of awards given by The Future Project (TFP), a social enterprise set up with a strong, practical commitment to human and capital development, especially in Africa. The Future Project is the largest home-grown network of policy-makers, business people, and other stakeholders in Young Africa.

The award is committed to find effective and innovative ways of addressing social issues. It has become one of the most respected private sector-driven development platforms with a history of verifiable impact, including in under-privileged and grassroots communities.

Award Categories

1. The Future Awards Africa Prize in Education
2. The Future Awards Africa Prize in Agriculture
3. The Future Awards Africa Prize in Advocacy
4. The Future Awards Africa Prize in Technology
5. The Future Awards Africa Prize in Public Service
6. The Future Awards Africa Prize in Community Action
7. The Tony O. Elumelu Prize in Business
8. The Future Awards Africa Prize in Entertainment
9. The Future Awards Africa Prize in Enterprise Support
10. The Future Awards Africa Prize for Young Person of the Year

Eligibility Criteria

Young people between the ages of 18 and 31, who have made outstanding achievement in the year are eligible to be nominated.

How to Nominate

Applicants must fill the nomination form online through the website.

For more information, please visit Nominations 2015.

Deadline: 13 August 2015

The Niwano Peace Foundation is seeking applications to to contribute to the realization of world peace and the enhancement of culture by promoting research and other activities, based on religious spirit and serving the cause of peace, in such fields as thought, culture, science, and education.

Grants Information

The foundation will provide grants of 10 million yen in 2015 for applications to be received twice in the year.

Activities to be Supported

• Social activities based on a religious spirit
• Grass-roots activities deployed in a local community

Eligibility Criteria

• Individuals and Organizations from all countries are eligible to apply for the grant.
• Any group which has been in continuous existence for a reasonable length of time is eligible to apply.

How to Apply

Interested applicants can apply by downloading the application forms given on the website.

For more information, please visit Niwano Peace Foundation.

Deadline: 31 August 2015

Nominations are open for 2016 Commonwealth Youth Awards by Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP) of the Commonwealth Secretariat for Excellence in Development Work.

A total of 16 finalists will be shortlisted from four Commonwealth regional categories: Africa and Europe, Asia, America and Caribbean, and Pacific.

Focus Areas

• Promote youth participation in decision making
• Promote economic empowerment of young people
• Take action for equality between young women and young men
• Promote peaceful and democratic environment in which human rights flourish
• Provide quality education for all
• Improve access to information and communication technology
• Promote health, development and values through sport and culture
• Engage young people to protect the environment.

Criteria for Nomination

• The nominee must have been engaged in their development work for more than 12 months either in a professional or voluntary capacity
• The nominee must be from a Commonwealth member country
• The development work must be ongoing and in a Commonwealth member country
• The nominee should not be older than 29 on 31 December 2016
• Nominees should give permission for their names to be put forward (if nominated by someone else). Award winners and finalists must agree to take part in publicity and activities generated by the Commonwealth.
• The development work can be within any number of areas, including agriculture, skills training, arts and culture, environment protection, education, health and well-being, human rights, information and communications technology, journalism and many more areas including sport, science and sustainability.

How to Apply

Interested applicants can apply by submitting an online application form given on the website.

For more information, please visit Commonwealth Youth Awards.

Deadline: 17 July 2015

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is currently accepting applications from the eligible applicants for the post of National Professional Officer/Child & Adolescent Health (CAH) based in Kampala, Uganda.

The National Professional Officer will function as the focal point for CAH in the Uganda WCO. The officer will be under the direct supervision of the WHO Representative, but work closely with other units and teams in the country office, Inter country support team (IST) and WHO/African Regional Office in addition to other relevant international, regional and national counter parts to promote WHO’s work on child and adolescent health.

WHO supports countries as they coordinate the efforts of multiple sectors of the government and partners – including bi- and multilaterals, funds and foundations, civil society organizations and private sector – to attain their health objectives and support their national health policies and strategies.

Key Job Responsibilities

The National Professional Officer will perform the following functions-

• To serve as WHO focal point for Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health activities in the country.
• To provide technical support and build capacity towards improvement and monitoring of quality of quality of care at all service delivery levels
• To liaise with, and provide support to all relevant government departments and institutions.
• Support the adaptations of global and regional policies, strategies, tools and plans for Newborn, child and adolescent health to fit the context of Uganda
• To promote the update of pre-service and in-service training programmes in the new approaches to promoting early childhood development and management of childhood illnesses.
• To liaise with other partners, such as UNICEF, World Bank, USAID, and NGOs for better co-ordination of CAH interventions.
• To promote multi-disciplinary and intersectoral approach to addressing social determinants of health relevant to early childhood development and child survival such as early childhood education, Infant and Young Child Feeding, nutrition, school health education, social and cultural practices affecting children amongst others.
• To promote operational research on CAH related topics, and to assist national officials at all levels and the community in the development and implementation of such research projects.
• To support monitoring the progress towards attainment of national and regional targets in reducing newborn and childhood morbidity and mortality and promoting accountability.
• Provide regular information to WHO and partners on the achievements and challenges of the programme, trends in child morbidity, mortality and causes of child deaths and identify policy recommendations for Ministry of Health
• Support strengthening the national system to adopt and monitor a core set of adolescent health indicators
• To prepare quarterly progress reports of activities undertaken and to plan for next quarters’ activities.
• Supporting implementation of RMNCAH grants
• Participate in planning and development of funding proposals, and work with partners to ensure effective implementation, monitoring and evaluation of successful grants.
• Manage financial resources of the unit to achieve the objectives of the country coordination strategy, planning, monitoring and timely, correct and efficient use of financial resources
• Support implementation of planned activities supported by various projects such as the RMNCAH Trust Fund, Commission on Information and Accountability (COIA) and other joint programs
• Participate in writing grants implementation progress reports
• Represent WHO on the national Working group for Grants’ Implementation
• To perform any other duties assigned by the WHO Representative.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants must have-
  • Medical degree from a recognised university.
  • Post graduate degree in Public Health and/or Pediatrics.
  • Excellent knowledge of Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Programme Management.
  • Proven competency in appropriate training skills and/or epidemiological research.
  • Proficiency in computer skills, data analysis and results presentation and or appropriate training/research skills.
  • Monitoring and evaluation skills and experience in Pediatrics and Child Health.
• Other skills-
  • Very good communication skills.
  • Good monitoring, evaluation and analytical skills.
  • Design and implementation of operational research.

How to Apply

Applications must be submitted through an online process.

For more information, please visit WHO.

Deadline:  Ongoing

The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) invites applications for its graduate scholarship (MS and PhD) in agriculture and related fields for Academic Year 2016-2017. Applicants are encouraged to complete the SEARCA scholarship application form and send along with other required documents to the Ministries of Education/Higher Education of their respective countries. The ministries have their own deadline, the deadline for ministries to endorse applications to SEARCA is 30 September 2015.

The graduate scholars’ thesis/dissertation topics must fall within any of the following ISARD priority themes and focus areas:

• Social Inclusion
• Environmental Sustainability
• Sub-regional cooperation in trade and investments

Focus Countries

Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam

Priority Themes & Focus Areas

1. Social Inclusion
2. Strengthening of Value Chains and Agribusiness Commodity Systems
3. Integration of small-scale farmers into commercial food systems
4. Food and Nutrition Security
5. Productivity-enhancing innovations and modern technologies
6. Rural entrepreneurship toward off-farm and non-farm businesses
7. Environmental Sustainability
8. Climate change adaptation and resiliency
9. Natural Resource Management
10. Cross-cutting Concerns
11. Sub-regional cooperation in trade and investments
12. Regional Economic Integration (AFTA and AEC 2015)

Financial Support

The scholarship covers stipend, tuition, international and domestic travel allowances, thesis/dissertation support, book allowance, and health insurance.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants must belong to one of the countries mentioned above.
• Applicants must be regular employees of academic, research or government institutions.
• Applicants can be maximum 35 years of age at the time of application.
• Applicants field of study must be one of the following – agriculture, biological sciences, fishery, environmental science, statistics, forestry, and social sciences.
• The applicant’s topic of research for thesis/dissertation must be in line with any of SEARCA’s priority thrusts.
• Applicants must have sent applications for admission to three of the study posts listed above.

How to Apply

Applicants can submit their accomplished SEARCA Scholarship Application form together with other original application requirements to the Ministries of Education/Higher Education of their respective countries.

Each applicant is required to submit the following documents:

1. SEARCA Scholarship Application Form (2 copies);
2. Letter of admission/acceptance from SEARCA-accredited university is highly preferred.
3. Official transcript of academic records of each degree completed (BS transcript for MS applicants and BS and MS transcripts for PhD applicants);
4. Certification of employment;
5. Brief description of the research the applicant plans to conduct for thesis/dissertation.
6. Two copies of passport-size pictures of the applicant;
7. Curriculum vitae;
8. Certification from a medical doctor that the applicant is in good physical and mental health condition and is fit to undertake graduate studies;
9. Official endorsement from the employer; and
10. Results of Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)

For more information, please visit SEARCA Call for Applications.

Deadline: 15 December 2017

The National Institute of Health is seeking applications to support collaborative translational research projects aligned with NIH efforts to enhance the translation of basic biological discoveries into clinical applications that improve health, encourages high quality science demonstrating the potential to result in understanding an important disease process or lead to new therapeutic interventions, diagnostics, or prevention strategies within the research interests and priorities of the participating NIHInstitutes/Centers (ICs).

The program will provide access for external researchers to the NIH Clinical Center and will leverage the diverse Clinical Center resources, expertise, and infrastructure available to test promising laboratory- and animal-based discoveries with potential implications for disease diagnosis, treatment and prevention.

Area of Interest

Awards for high quality science demonstrating the potential to result in understanding an important disease process or lead to a new therapeutic intervention will be available.

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible organizations include:

• Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
• Private Institutions of Higher EducationNonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
• Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
• For-Profit Organizations State Governments, Country Governments, City or Township Governments, Special District Governments, Indian/Native American Tribal Governments.

How to Apply

• Interested applicants can apply using application package given on the website.
• The applications must include:
  • Organizational structure
  • Management plan detailing how existing resources, including unique resources available through the NIH Clinical Center, will be utilized.
  • Planned interaction and responsibilities of key personnel
  • Description of how research teams will communicate

For more information, please visit Collaborative Research.

Youths form one of the most vulnerable groups in any conflict as they can be easily be swayed to violent extremism by conflicting parties very easily. In many cases when conflicts are at the rise, there are a host of socio-economic issues that challenge youth development like unemployment, poor access to education and attraction to violence causing a threat to overall peace.

This toolkit from USAID youth participation in violent conflict and draws out lessons for development programming.

Avoiding future conflict means drawing positively on the energy and capacity of youth as the leaders of tomorrow’s societies.

Youth employment has jumped to the forefront of the international development agenda, especially with regard to stabilising fragile states.

The provision of jobs and the idea of youth employment are of paramount importance for the stabilisation of fragile post-conflict states. This document: 1) examines key issues related to youth participation in violence; 2) discusses lessons learned in developing programs for at-risk youth; 3) presents a range of program options; and 4) identifies relevant USAID mechanisms and implementing partners.

The toolkit can be downloaded from this link.

The ‘Youth Advocacy Toolkit’ developed by Plan International, A World at School and the Youth Advocacy Group of the Global Education First Initiative. The purpose of this toolkit is help young people to advocate quality education inspired by some young world leaders like Malala Yousafzai.

This toolkit is for anyone who believes passionately in the power of education as a force for good in the world and the right for all children to get a good quality education, no matter where they are and what the circumstances.

If you are just beginning to think about taking action on education, you can work your way through the toolkit from start to finish. But you can also dip in to pick up useful hints or activities to help you carry out your existing plans. We know this toolkit doesn’t cover everything you might need and we’ve tried to sign-post you to other resources where possible.

Included in here are lots of real stories of change, led by young people, from all over the world. We hope they inspire you. The young global movement for education is growing, and you can be part of it.

You can download this resource here.