The World Bank - Young Professionals Program

World-Class Training. Global Opportunities. Chance to Improve the World. Pick 3.

The Young Professionals Program
For 45 years, the World Bank’s Young Professionals Program has been the preeminent program preparing global development leaders. If you have a passion for international development and a drive to lead, we want to hear from you.

The Young Professionals Program (YPP) is a starting point for an exciting career in the World Bank.
It is a unique opportunity for young people who have both a passion for international development and the potential to become future global leaders. The Program is designed for highly qualified and motivated individuals skilled in areas relevant to the World Bank’s operations such as, economics, finance, education, public health, social sciences, engineering, urban planning, and natural resource management. In order to be competitive for this highly selective program, candidates need to demonstrate a commitment to development, proven academic success, professional achievement, and leadership capability. We value diversity in our workplace, and encourage qualified men and women with diverse professional, academic and cultural backgrounds to apply. Since its inception, the YP Program has hired over 1,500 people who now hold position ranging from entry-level to vice presidents and managing directors. It is a unique opportunity to experience development and gain exposure to the World Bank’s operations and policies.

Minimum Requirements
The following are minimum requirements to be eligible for the Young Professionals Program.

• Be 32 years of age or younger (i.e. born on or after September 30, 1979)
• Have a Master’s degree or equivalent
• Be fluent in English
• Be fully proficient in one or more of the Bank’s working languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish
• Specialize in a field relevant to the World Bank’s operations such as economics, finance, education, public health, social sciences, engineering, urban planning, and natural resource management
• Have at least 3 years of relevant experience at the policy level or continued academic study at the doctoral level.

Additional Qualifications

In order to be competitive for the limited number of positions, a combination of the following credentials is highly desirable:

• Display a commitment and passion for international development
• Possess outstanding academic credentials
• Exhibit excellent client engagement and team leadership skills
• Have international development country experience
• Be motivated to relocate and undertake country assignments

Please note that the Young Professionals Program does not recruit individuals who specialize in disciplines such as: Computer Science, HR, Accounting, Marketing, Law and Linguistics.

For more detailed information visit: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTHRJOBS/Resources/1058432-1304013341703/index.html

CALD ECO-TOURISM

CALD has partnered with East Africa Eco Safaris to provide eco-tourism services and investment in the East African region. We offer a wide range of management consultancy and development in the tourism and Ecotourism sector all over East Africa.

East Africa Eco Safaries has professional staff; present in all East African countries. They all posses international experience in tourism and Ecotourism consulting, hotel operations, airlines, touring and recruitment.

Ecological Studies
We provides wildlife research, biological consulting and educational courses within East africa. We specialize in aquatic systems, endangered species and special status wildlife populations including amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds. Red-legged frog ecology and management is one example of our emphasis within aquatic systems. Our Associate team members specialize in rare plants, wetland delineations, fisheries, bats, and entomology. We also assist our clients with permit requirements and acquisition from governmental agencies.

We also plan to develop tourist resorts equiped with world class accommodation, catering services, wildlife reserve and sports that will attract local and international tourism and businesses in a social enterprise model product that will also address social and environmental needs of our communities.

“Ecotourism” sustainable tourism integrated with modern technologies and local cultures, traditions, community learning, health and investment in rural Africa

NOTE: We have the lands in strategic and well positioned prime areas for quick growth, what we need are investors interested to partner with us and build this industry in Africa, if interested in any of our services please send an email to info@thecald.org or contact David Mutua at davenzainga@thecald.org  

For more information visit http://www.ea-ecosafaris.com/

The US -Department of State is inviting individuals and organizations to attend a discussion on
the food crisis in the Horn of Africa with Diaspora from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and Kenya.

Speakers:
Ambassador Johnnie Carson, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs and
Nancy Lindborg, USAID’s Assistant Administrator for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance

Date:  Thursday, September 22, 2011
Time:  3:00-4:00 p.m.

Location:  U.S. Mission to the United Nations
45th Street and 1st Avenue
New York, New York

Please arrive at the 45th Street entrance by 2:45p.m.
for security screening and registration
photo ID is required

Please confirm your attendance no later than
1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 21,
at PublicOutreach@state.gov with subject line: Horn of Africa Briefing.

Please include the following information in your reply:
Full name, title, title, organization

This event is closed to the media.

Forging Stronger Business Partnerships, African Women Entrepreneurs Travel to United States for Three-Week International Exchange

Media Note
Washington, DC
September 16, 2011

Working to strengthen economic partnerships between the United States and Africa, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announced today that 43 African women business leaders will travel to the United States September 19 through October 7 as part of the African Women’s Entrepreneurship Program. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with a group of African Women’s Entrepreneurs in June during the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum in Zambia.

These women entrepreneurs will meet and network with U.S. policy makers, companies and industry associations, civil society groups, non-profit organizations advocating for women’s economic opportunities, multi-lateral development organizations, and business alliances. They will travel to Albany, NY; Chicago, IL; Denver, CO; Jacksonville, FL; Kansas City, MO;
Louisville, KY; Miami, FL; New York, NY; Orlando, FL; Pensacola, FL; Portland, OR; Sacramento, CA; Santa Fe, NM; San Diego, CA; Seattle, WA; Tulsa, OK, and Washington, DC.

The U.S. portion of this initiative kicks-off in Chicago on September 19 and will feature a keynote address by Desiree Rogers, Chief Executive Officer of Johnson Publishing Company. While in Chicago, the group will tour and meet with business owners from six local businesses to share best practices, hosted by Entrepreneurs Organization (EO). In New York, the group will participate in an event sponsored by the RAND African First Ladies Initiative and the Corporate Council of Africa featuring Cherie Blair, the former First Lady of the United Kingdom. After breaking off into smaller groups for travel to mid-sized cities, these women will come together in Washington, DC for meetings with senior U.S. officials, businesses, and civil society.

Already, the African Women Entrepreneurship Program has empowered small business owners and provided them the tools to export under the terms of AGOA. Others are working to increase their export capacities and establish business relationships with U.S. partners. Following the success of the inaugural class of African women entrepreneurs in 2010, ExxonMobil committed to funding two more follow-on trainings in Africa in partnership with Vital Voices.

This initiative, which first began in 2010, works to empower African women entrepreneurs to become part of their national and global business networks by:

• Increasing opportunities for women to use the AGOA program;
• Expanding opportunities for exports and U.S. investment in sub-Saharan Africa;
• Recognizing and expanding the roles women play as advocates for changes in laws, regulations, customs, and incentives that support women in businesses in their countries; and
• Instituting a follow-up program so that participants, in their role as community leaders, can pass on what they learn.

The women participating in this current program hail from Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Comoros, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Ethiopia, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

For more information, contact Talley Sergent, U.S. Department of State, at SergentRT@state.gov.


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Chinua Achebe forces 50 Cent to rename movie

Things fall apart for rapper as Nigerian writer makes him change forthcoming film title to avoid conflict with 1958 novel

 

Cheer up Fiddy … 50 Cent forced to change film title

50 Cent has been undone by one of Africa's greatest novelists, Chinua Achebe. The rapper's latest movie has been renamed ahead of its release, due to a conflict with Achebe's most famous work.

Things Fall Apart, published by Achebe in 1958, is Nigeria's most famous English-language novel. It has sold more than 8m copies worldwide. Unfortunately, 50 Cent was not aware of this. He spent much of 2010 shooting a film of the same name, the story of an American football player diagnosed with cancer. "It's a project that I wrote, produced and financed myself," he explained last year. Directed by Mario Van Peebles, it premiered at the Miami film festival in March and is expected to be released soon.

Unfortunately for Fiddy, his film will not keep its original title. After being contacted by Achebe's legal team, 50 Cent allegedly offered $1m to hold on to the title. Achebe, 80, took this as an insult. "The novel with the said title was initially produced in 1958 (that is 17 years before [50] was born)," replied his lawyers, according to Naijan. "[It is] listed as the most-read book in modern African literature, and won't be sold for even £1bn." The film has now been renamed to All Things Fall Apart.

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• Sean Michaels

guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 14 September 2011 06.15 EDT

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NAIROBI, KENYA -Fuel fire leaves stench of death

By Martin Mukangu and Moses Omusula/Standard News Paper.
The grotesque bodies strewn all over the valley captured the tragedy that was visited upon Sinai slum, whose residents have known nothing but misery and poverty, on Monday morning.

Shocked relatives at Kenyatta National
Hospital on Monday. Photos: Martin Mukangu
and Moses Omusula/Standard

Facing the valley of death overlooking his eight rooms, which had been gutted to ashes, Saphan Mbuthia, 28, stoked his smouldering settee as he sidestepped burnt remnants of all his earthly possessions, which he had held dear for the last five years.
At one corner, a disfigured hot plate and an overturned paper bag with roasted rice gaped, as if defying what was happening around. But even as Mbuthia counted his losses, he kept murmuring how lucky he was for none of his family members had been hurt by the fire, unlike some of his neighbours like Jennifer Atieno.

Although Atieno’s three children were safe, she was not sure about her nine-year-old grandchild, Vivian Atieno, who was last seen as she left for Jamaica Academy within the slums.
"When I heard loud explosions at around 9am, I rushed to find out what was happening. I saw fire everywhere. I rushed towards the school but it was on fire. I do not know where Vivian is but I hope she is safe.

Atieno’s friend, Judith Aulo was still dazed in shock after she received information that her five-year-old son, John Juma had been knocked down by a vehicle as he fled from the burning school.
"This place was like hell. I tried running to the road but I was too slow. Finally, I reached my son

Survivors’ agony at the scene. Photos: Martin Mukangu and Moses Omusula/Standard

and took him to hospital. He will be fine. I thank God for saving him, although everything has been destroyed by the fire," said Aulo.
Francis Amache dreads going down to the valley where the bodies are because he fears he might find his brother’s remains.
"I last saw him taking a basin as he rushed towards the river where other villagers were scooping petrol from a drainage tunnel. I have not seen him since. He has no phone. I fear he could be dead."

Fire exploded By the time of going to press, the police had put the number of deaths at more than 100.
The residents who spoke to The Standard recalled how they saw many people rushing to the valley to scoop petrol shortly before fire exploded.
After realising they had caught fire, some victims tried to cool their bodies by jumping into the sewerage drain — but it had the leaking fuel.

The situation at the valley was made worse by the drizzle which flooded the area as storm water mixed with sewerage and drained into the valley where the dying and the dead lay.

As soon as the news of the tragedy and its magnitude spread, hundreds of people streamed into the already crowded slum hampering human and vehicular movement.
Amidst all this, the devastated villagers tried to sift whatever they could salvage from the charred debris.

News people, some who were reporting live from the site, didn’t find it easy either. At one point a female broadcaster climbed on top of an ambulance and broadcast as fire sirens blared past her.
And even as the rescue workers tried to estimate the death toll, there were fears that additional fires may erupt as some of the residents were still hiding petrol in their houses.

"Bwana Chief, there are some people who have petrol in their houses. I don’t know what to do because their houses may explode at night when the owners light fires," a resident told an agitated Chief Atandi.
Kenya Pipeline officials suggested that the entire slum be flattened to avoid more fires, but Atandi ruled out such eventuality, arguing that he did not have powers to do so.

While the administrators and Pipeline officials scratched their heads for solutions, politicians trooped into the area with their motorcades to assess the situation.

Kawethei Accident victims Fundraising Event

In my village, Kawethei location in Kangundo district, Kenya, 23 people died and 36 were left with serious injuries after a tragic road accident on the 20th August 2011 as they were travelling back from a dowry ceremony - The groom and 5 others from his nuclear family members are some of those who died. These are people that i knew and know. As neighbours, we used to share little things like cooking salt just as it is in every other rural community in Africa and in the world - For me and others form the village its also time to share the sadness and support each other in every possible way.

CALD and the friends of Kawethei people in Cincinnati Ohio USA organized a fundraising event for the Kawethei Accident Victims on Saturday, September 10, 2011. We appreciate greatly to all those who came, contributed and shared with us at that day and those that still continue to support. - BIG THANK YOU!!!

Kenyan President, Prime Minister and Vice President at the Kawethei mass burial ceremony

Kawethei Community Development Network (KCDN)http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kawethei-Community-Development-Network-KCDN/187655077943484 requests assistance to support these families, your contribution in any amount will make a huge difference for ophans and widows that have been left by their family breadwinners.

We still keep the contributions/donations open to meet the needs and for those who didn't get time to do so or make it. ...Please contact David Mutua at +1 513 237 5911 or mail a check at the address below.

Mailing checks/cheques.Center for African Learning and Development (CALD)
8188 North Legare Drive, Court 105
West Chester, OH 45069
USA