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FIRM - Development and Establishment of Two Professional Degree (Masters Level) Programs on Food Security: Land and Water Resource Management for Food Security and Food Security and Agro-food Manageme

"In the presence of the Head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to the African Union (AU), Amb.Gary Quince, and the AU Commissioner Jean-Pierre Ezin, the second set of research grants resulting from the AU's 2nd call for proposals was officially signed at the AU Commission Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 17th December 2012. This call led to the selection of eleven projects in the areas of Agriculture, Renewable and Sustainable Energy, and Water and Sanitation, for a total amount of €7 million."

"Titre du poste: Chargé en chef de l'initiative pour l'alimentation en eau et l'assainissement en milieu rural (IAEAR) - Eau et assainissement (OWAS) Grade: PL-3 Poste N°: 1395A (SAP 50066207) Référence: ADB N°/13/051 Date de publication: 19/03/2013 Date de clôture: 18/04/2013"

En décembre 2010, l'Assemblée générale des Nations Unies a proclamé 2013 Année internationale de la coopération dans le domaine de l'eau. Suite à cette déclaration, la Journée mondiale de l'eau, qui sera célébrée le 22 mars 2013, sera également dédiée à la coopération dans le domaine de l'eau. L'objectif de cette Année internationale est de sensibiliser à la fois aux possibilités de développement de la coopération et aux défis que représente la gestion de l'eau, face à un accroissement de la demande d'accès, de répartition des ressources et de services d'approvisionnement.

On a regular basis, the AQUAEXCEL project invites proposals from European research groups for scientific research that utilises the facilities of any of the participating Aquaculture Research Infrastructures. The AQUAEXCEL project unites major aquaculture experimental facilities with capacity to undertake experimental trials on a selection of commercially important fish aquaculture species and system types. These facilities are made available to the research community for Transnational Access (TNA) with the support of the European Union 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (Infrastructures). The facilities available cover the entire range of production systems (recirculation, flow‐through, cage, hatchery and pond systems); environments (freshwater and marine, cold, temperate and warm water); scales (small, medium and industrial scale); fish species (salmon, trout, sea bass, sea bream, cod, common carp etc.); and fields of expertise (nutrition, physiology, health and welfare, genetics, engineering, monitoring and management technologies).

"Prawn farming in Senegal may hold the key to eradicating a common and deadly parasitic disease. Researchers believe if the shell fish are reintroduced into the West African nation's rivers, they will eat the snails that host the parasite that causes schistosomiasis. Spread through contaminated water, the disease, also known as bilharzia, kills more than 200,000 people a year, according to UN figures. More than two million more are infected each year by the parasitic worms which impair child growth and damage internal organs."

The Agriculture and Agro-Industry Department of the African Development Bank Group (OSAN) is responsible for Bank's assistance in Agriculture and natural resources management in the Regional Member Countries. This assistance includes environmental concerns, promoting agro-industries development, enhancing production, productivity and competitiveness. The Department provides technical and managerial services as well as technical quality assurance to ensure development effectiveness of Bank financed interventions in Agriculture and related areas on the continent . In 2010, the African Development Bank Group started implementing its current Agriculture Sector Strategy (AgSS) covering the period 2010 - 2014. The strategy aims primarily at contributing to the broader development objectives of greater and sustained agricultural productivity, food security and poverty reduction. The strategy was designed with the view of enhancing Bank interventions through more focused, selective and innovative activities. These activities covered areas such as: i) rural infrastructure, including water management and storage, and trade - related capacities for access to local and regional markets; and ii) natural resource management. The strategy also supported selected research initiatives and a wide range of capacity building programs, with distinct features of gender sensitivity, with particular emphasis on fully mainstreaming gender appropriat ely on more than 50% of projects, and ensuring that a similar scope of beneficiaries are women. The Bank recently concluded a Mid-term Review of the AgSS (2010-2014), and will soon commence work on the new Agriculture Strategy to cover the period 2015-2019,and it will be formulated in line with the Bank's Ten Year Strategy ( TYS:2013-2022).OSAN therefore seeks to recruit a junior consultant to assist in : data collection,analysis, research,results reporting and support for the preparation of an approach for the new Strategy.

Al Idrisi II is a program of short-term academic mobility for nationals of Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and the European Union. The program supports undergraduate, doctoral, post-doctoral, and staff mobility. The "International Cooperation Cells" define subject areas that include salinization of agricultural soils, non-conventional sources of irrigation water for olive growing, environment and renewable energy, and many others across the sciences and humanities. The application deadline is 12 January 2016.

The Pan African University (PAU) seeks to develop institutions of excellence in science, technology, innovation, social sciences, and governance in Africa. The African Union offers the Pan African University Scholarship for masters and PhD degree programs at four PAU Institutes (in Algeria, Cameroon, Kenya, and Nigeria). Subject areas for the postgraduate educational programs include agriculture, water resources, arid lands management, energy, environmental management, and many others -- varying among the PAU Institutes.