Synergy Online – December 2006
  Also available on the web: >>http://www.csih.org/synergy/synergy.html
  In this issue:
  * PDP Funders’s group coordinator post available 
* Interagency Youth Working Group (IYWG) announces new Youth 
InfoNet issue
* Emergency aid distributed to isolated and flooded villages of northeastern Kenya
* Fighting erupts in Nord Kivu, DRC
* Alumni and Volunteer Relations Advisor (AVRA) position available at CUSO
* CSIH Executive Director Janet Hatcher Roberts becomes new Director of Health Migration at the IOM 
  
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  PDP funders’group coordinator post available:
The PDP Funders’ Group (PFG) is intended to benefit government, philanthropic and corporate donors that currently support global public-private product development partnerships (PDPs).  PDPs work to accelerate product development and ensure access to new drugs, vaccines, microbicides and diagnostics for diseases that affect poor people in the developing world.  One distinguishing feature of PDPs is their careful management of a portfolio of candidate products, aligned with efforts to ensure the introduction and uptake of the subset of products that will emerge successfully from the development pipeline. The PFG is Chaired by a member donor organisation on a rotating annual basis.  Its broad objectives are to: facilitate improved decision making by individual donors in this field and strengthen the base of financial support to ensure that PDPs achieve their goals. The Coordinator will work with the PFG Chair and members to provide general program management and coordination
 support for all activities of the PFG. Please send a CV and covering letter explaining why you would like this post and proposing working arrangements.  Electronic versions of CVs and covering letter should be sent to Sue Kinn, UK Department for International Development [log in to unmask] by 12 noon (GMT) on Friday 26th January 2007. It is anticipated that interviews will take place in the week beginning 19th February 2007.
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  The Interagency Youth Working Group (IYWG) announces new Youth InfoNet issue:
The latest issue of the YouthNet electronic newsletter features 18 program resources and 24 summaries of research from Brazil, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Philippines, Serbia, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, and global reviews. For copies or questions about resources mentioned, please use the contact information supplied with each item. To receive the full version of future issues of Youth InfoNet via email, please send a request to [log in to unmask] Inclusion of publications and resources in Youth InfoNet does not imply endorsement. For more information, contact David Hock at [log in to unmask] 
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  Emergency aid distributed to isolated and flooded villages of northeastern Kenya:
Since the morning of November 28, Médecins Sans Frontières teams have been carrying out non-food items distributions with helicopter transport to bring assistance to isolated populations due to the recent floods that have affected the region over the last few weeks. After two days of air assessment over the region most affected by the recent heavy rains, MSF teams managed to identify six villages situated northwest of Dadaab, a small town surrounded by refugee camps that accommodate up to 140,000 mostly Somali refugees.   While these refugees have been severely affected by the floods themselves, some Kenyan villages located around Dadaab have been completely isolated and cut off from the rest of the country and without any possibility to receive supplies by land. Two MSF chartered helicopters have been flying in rotations since November 28th out of Dadaab to carry relief supplies including several thousands of mosquito nets, dozens of rolls of plastic sheeting, fuel
 supplies for generator powered water pumps and medical supplies, specifically Oral Re-hydration Salts (ORS) to the six identified villages of Gurufa, Baraki, Dertu, Alikune, Shantabaq and Kumahamthu. These villages, surrounded by water and with an estimated population of 40,000 people, have faced a massive mosquito presence since the flooding began and the most vulnerable in the villages are struggling to protect themselves from the insect bites.  In addition, numerous houses have been damaged by the heavy rains that show no sign of ending. For more information, see www.msf.ca. 
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  Fighting erupts in Nord Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC):
Since Nov. 25, 2006 fighting has been raging to the north, south and west of Rutshuru district in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). More than 90 wounded have been treated in hospitals in Goma and Rutshuru, and between 15,000 and 20,000 people have been displaced so far. Since the fighting started between 15,000 and 20,000 people have fled the southern town of Sake, next to Goma. Most of the displaced are staying with host families in neighbouring villages. Over the weekend 77 wounded arrived in Goma. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) carried out punctual donations of medical and surgical material to the hospitals in Goma.  Fighting to the west of Rutshuru, in Tongo has also resulted in displacement in nearby towns. So far, 17 seriously wounded have been transferred to Rutshuru hospital where MSF medical and surgical teams are working. Fighting also broke out to the north of Rutshuru district, next to Nyanzale where an MSF medical team has been working
 since late October of 2006. The MSF team evacuated the town this past weekend as combats approached, and the population fled to neighbouring villages. Most people have now returned as the fighting has moved to other villages. For more information, see www.msf.ca. 
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  Alumni and Volunteer Relations Advisor (AVRA) position available at CUSO:  
The Canadian University Services Overseas (CUSO) is looking for a full time Volunteer Relation Advisor to work in the Ottawa area.  CUSO is a leader in international cooperation. We bring Canadians and the world together to address poverty, human rights issues, HIV/AIDS, inequality, cultural loss and environmental degradation. Skilled CUSO volunteers are working to make change happen over 24 countries in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, the Americas and the Caribbean. As Canada's largest and oldest volunteer-sending agency, we've sent more than 14 000 Canadians overseas for development work since 1961.  The incumbent will play a substantive role in the planning, implementation and delivery of CUSO’s new Cooperant Recruitment Model. The role combines strategy with the delivery of tangible guidelines, systems and tools designed to modernize CUSO’s overseas cooperant, alumni and active Canadian volunteers management systems and approach, and will require a holistic, long-range,
 organizational view as well as a hands-on approach with attention to detail and process. As the job title suggests, the incumbent will have an ongoing advisory role in relation to volunteer and alumni matters within CUSO. The application deadling is January 3, 2007.  For more information, see www.cuso.org.
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  CSIH Executive Director Janet Hatcher Roberts becomes new Director of Health Migration at the IOM:
As of January 8th, 2007, Janet Hatcher Roberts will be leaving CSIH after nine years to become the new Director of Health Migration at the International Organization of Migration (IOM) in Geneva, Switzerland. Janet will be replacing outgoing Director, Danielle Grondin, who returned to Canada earlier this year after five years at the IOM.  Janet came to CSIH in 1997and has watched the society evolve from having two projects in Ukraine and Bolivia to now having seven large projects running simultaneously at CSIH, two $7 Million projects in the Balkans, one in Ukraine, one in Southeast Region of Asia, one in Guyana, one in Mali, and one
in Nigeria and Croatia.  Some of Janet’s accomplishments over the past few years have been the development of consortia on all the new projects which has brought agencies, NGO’s and academia together to approach global health, research and development.  Janet has been the co-director of a WHO Collaborating Centre at the University of Ottawa and an assistant Professor at the University in the Faculty of Medicine and affiliate Scientist at the Institute for Population Health at the University of Ottawa. Farewell Janet, and good luck!
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