Second Africa Region Course. Building Capacity for rights: democracy & development in Africa will take place 20 – 30 October 2008. The deadline for scholarships is 15 March 2008.

This course, intended for people concerned with social change in Africa, aims to build capacity for advancing rights within development and activist organizations. It is designed to engage researcher, advocates, trainers and program officers from civil society and state institutions in exploring understandings of rights in developing practical approaches to employing a rights perspective in advocacy and development programmes. The course is jointly organised by KIT and the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) at the University of Witwatersrand.

The deadline for genearl (non-scholarship) applications is 30 May 2008.

For further details and to access the application form, Read More >> [http://www.kit.nl/smartsite.shtml?ch=FAB&id=15680]