Water Witness Social Accountability & Water Stewardship Posts (AJIRA)

Dear Colleagues 

Water Witness International has won new long-term funding which will help us to ensure that social accountability monitoring and water stewardship make a stronger contribution to water justice and delivery of the SDGs in Africa. There is a strong research, advocacy and outreach aspect to this work to support wider learning, practice and impact. 

To deliver this growing workload we have created several new and exciting positions (in the UK, Tanzania and Malawi) which will put the successful applicants at the cutting edge of local and global efforts to forge a fairer water future. I'd be grateful if you could circulate details of these opportunities within your networks to help us find the high calibre and experienced individuals we need. 

Links and summary details of the first positions are here:

Knowledge and Impact Manager, Water Witness International, Morogoro, Tanzania, up to £40, 596 pa plus benefits. Closing date Friday 21st July 2017. https://waterwitness.org/s/Knowledge-and-Impact-Manager-Job-Description.pdf

Knowledge and Impact Officer, Shahidi wa Maji, Morogoro, Tanzania, TZS 3.3 M – 4.1 M per calendar month. Closing date Friday 21st July. 

http://www.shahidiwamaji.org/s/Knowldge-and-Impact-Officer-Job-Description.pdf

International Programme Support Officer (part-time), Water Witness International, Edinburgh. Salary: £21 252 per annum pro rata, Closing date 21st July 2017. 

https://waterwitness.org/s/IPSO-Job-description.pdf

Many thanks in anticipation,

Nick

Nick Hepworth, PhD

Director, Water Witness International

UN House, 4 Hunter Square

Edinburgh, EH1 1QW

Mobile:+44 (0)7519 120 967 

Landline: +44 (0)131 225 3407

Skype: nick.hepworth1 Email: nickhepworth@waterwitness.org

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Tanzania plot to KO Zambia in Cosafa Cup semifinals

Tanzania coach Salum Mayanga says his charges are ready to show Zambia why they are unbeaten in the 2017 Cosafa Cup.

The Taifa Stars and Zambia clash in the 2017 Cosafa Cup semifinals on Wednesday in a 17h00 kickoff at Moruleng Stadium in South Africa where this year’s tournament is being held from June 25 to July 9.

Tanzania qualified to the knockout round unbeaten and topped Group A on 5 points before ejecting hosts and defending champions Bafana Bafana 1-0 in the quarterfinals on July 2.

That match came a day after Zambia qualified to the semifinals following a 2-1 win over 2016 runners-up Botswana.

Zambia only entered the competition at the last 8 stage after they were handed a preliminary group stage bye.

“We had the chance to see Zambia who won their game 2-1 against Botswana, so I already know what I am supposed to do,” Mayanga said.

“The results we have produced have given us the boost and essentially we will play better than in the group games.”

Meanwhile this will be Zambia and Tanzania’s second meeting in the Cosafa Cup since 1997 when they finished 2-2 in Arusha.

Zambia went to to lift the inaugural tournament that year after finishing top of the round-robin final pool stage on 8 points.

Mugabe donates $1 million to African Union

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Monday he was donating $1 million to the African Union (AU), hoping to set an example for African countries to finance AU programmes and wean it off funding from outside donors.

For years, about 60 percent of AU spending has been financed by donors including the European Union, World Bank and governments of wealthy non-African countries.

Mugabe, who has held power in Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, has said reliance on foreign funds allows big powers to interfere in the work of the AU.

The 93-year-old Mugabe told an African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, he had auctioned 300 cattle from his personal herd in May to fulfil a promise made to the continental body two years ago.

"Africa needs to finance its own programmes. Institutions like the AU cannot rely on donor funding as the model is not sustainable," Mugabe said in comments broadcast on Zimbabwe's state television.

"This humble gesture on Zimbabwe's part has no universal application but it demonstrates what is possible when people apply their minds to tasks before them."

The African Union's 2017 budget is $782 million, increasing from $416.8 million last year. African leaders in July 2016 agreed in principle to charge a 0.2 percent levy on some exports to help finance AU operations.

Zimbabwe, whose economy was devastated by a drought last year, does not disclose its contributions to the AU. The top five African contributors are Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Nigeria and South Africa.

(Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe; Editing by James Macharia and Andrew Roche)