We’re Hiring! | Registered Nurses | Tshwane

We’re Hiring! | Registered Nurses | Tshwane

MIET AFRICA seeks to appoint experienced Registered Nurses to support the Integrated School Health Programme (ISHP) in collaboration with the Department of Health. In addition, the successful candidates may also be required to provide support to the Adolescent and Young People (AYP) Programme as needed.

MIET AFRICA is a sub-recipient of NACOSA, a principal recipient of the Global Fund Grant, for the grant period ending September 2025.

Closing date for applications is Sunday, 4 May 2025.  Late applications will not be considered. To view the full job advertisement and apply, please click the link provided.

Registered Nurse Tshwane April 2025_

 

 

 

VACANCY | 2 NIMART Nurse Positions – Tshwane

VACANCY | 2 NIMART Nurse Positions – Tshwane

MIET AFRICA is seeking to appoint two NIMART nurses on a 5-month contract, based in the Tshwane district, Gauteng. The positions are available immediately and will support the implementation of the Adolescent and Young People Programme.

Closing date for applications is Monday, 28 April 2025. To view the full job advertisement and apply, please click the link provided to access the full job advertisement.

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We’re Hiring! | 48 HTS Counsellor Positions – Tshwane

We’re Hiring! | 48 HTS Counsellor Positions – Tshwane

MIET AFRICA seeks to employ 48 HTS Counsellors to support the implementation of the Adolescent and Young People Programme (AYP) in the Tshwane District, Gauteng. These positions are offered on a 6-month contract basis and form part of the Global Fund Grant, for which MIET AFRICA is a sub-recipient through NACOSA.  Successful candidates must be based in Tshwane for the duration of the contract. To view the full job advertisement and apply, please click the link provided. Closing date is 25 April 2025. Late applications will not be considered.

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“Ignoring this population means failing them,” warns MIET AFRICA’s Dawn Jones on US foreign aid suspension

“Ignoring this population means failing them,” warns MIET AFRICA’s Dawn Jones on US foreign aid suspension

“If we ignore this population of vulnerable children and youth, especially the girls and young women, we are failing them.” These were the stark words of MIET AFRICA’s Director of South African Programmes and Advocacy, Dawn Jones, during a SABC News Late Edition interview. Her comments come in response to the recent announcement of a 90-day suspension of all US foreign assistance – a decision she warns will have devastating consequences.

“It doesn’t help that it’s just a pause – it’s 89 days too long,” Jones stated, emphasizing that the initial impact of the freeze would hit the world’s most vulnerable populations hardest.
According to The Guardian, UN agencies have already begun scaling back global aid operations, with immediate cuts to humanitarian assistance across multiple regions. The ripple effect is being felt worldwide.
“Ultimately, we cannot stop what we’re doing,” Jones stressed. “Civil society and the private sector must step up in solidarity to ensure this sector continues its essential work.”
Watch the full interview:

https://youtu.be/wwPZFArDZmg?feature=shared

South Africa Menstrual Health Snapshot

South Africa Menstrual Health Snapshot

MIET AFRICA, along with Days for Girls, the global menstrual health (MH) and hygiene advocacy group, and WASH United have just released the MH Country Snapshot on South Africa. MIET AFRICA’s Monitoring & Evaluation Manager, Dr Renjini Devaki contributed to the report which is aimed at providing MH advocates and organizations with high-level research on, and the status of, individual countries’ MH conditions, policies, rights and challenges.

Download the report and share widely.

New Regional Programme: FutureLife-Now!

New Regional Programme: FutureLife-Now!

FutureLife-Now! is a new regional programme that’s built on the successful Care and Support for Teaching and Learning (CSTL) framework developed in the early 2000’s and that, in 2018, reached over 27 million of the region’s learners with support services. This innovative approach has strengthened the education sector’s ability to respond to the growing numbers of vulnerable children and youth in the region, by providing child and youth-friendly services in support of health, gender, migration, food security, violence and other challenges.

By bringing together two critical elements for human development – education and health­ – and by building upon the systems’ strengthening and policy development that has taken place through CSTL, FutureLife-Now! aims to promote greater self-confidence and hope for the present and future among young people in the SADC region. A combination of activities that includes strengthened HIV education policies, enhanced Comprehensive Sexuality Education,

REPORT: Regional Study of Vulnerability Amongst Schoolboys in South Africa

REPORT: Regional Study of Vulnerability Amongst Schoolboys in South Africa

In the years of implementing the SADC Care and Support for Teaching and Learning (CSTL) programme, it has become increasing apparent to CSTL partners that there is a major gap in the delivery of school-based care and support to boys and young men, and that this gap is hindering programme and regional goals for gender equality, HIV reduction and improved educational outcomes for all children. Limited existing literature on boys and young men point to a dearth of evidence on the specific vulnerabilities of boys in schools, and what might be effective in addressing these vulnerabilities.  To this end, an exploratory regional research study was commissioned by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, to better understand the key issues and identify recommendations for future school-based programming.  Click here to download the full report.

 

Official launch of the Zimbabwe Care and Support for Teaching and Learning (CSTL) National Model

Official launch of the Zimbabwe Care and Support for Teaching and Learning (CSTL) National Model

Zimbabwe’s CSTL model was officially launched by Her Excellency, the First Lady Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa on 27 June 2019. The goal of the CSTL programme is that children and youth in SADC realise their rights to education, to safety and protection and to care and support, through an expanded and strengthened education sector response.

Click here for the full report.

 

MIET AFRICA Featured in EU Publication which Highlights the Fight to Promote and Protect Human Rights in South Africa

MIET AFRICA Featured in EU Publication which Highlights the Fight to Promote and Protect Human Rights in South Africa

MIET AFRICA is featured in the recently-published EU publication Walking the Long Road – a snapshot of civil society actors in South Africa. The EU has partnered and supported Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in South Africa for more than three decades to promote and protect human rights and work towards a more equitable and just society. The publication provides a glimpse into the work done by CSOs to fight for a South Africa in which every person’s rights are respected, protected, fulfilled and promoted.

Featured in the ‘Right to Education’ section of the publication, MIET AFRICA is a co-beneficiary with the British Council of an EU grant for a three-year Teaching for All: Mainstreaming Inclusive Education (IE) in South Africa Project. The project aims to improve the attitudes and capacity of pre-service and in-service teachers towards IE through the implementation of existing policy and the integration of training modules and courses on IE into universities and provincial education departments.

It’s Time for Action on #MHDay2019

It’s Time for Action on #MHDay2019

To commemorate Menstrual Health Day 2019, MIET AFRICA’s KwaZulu-Natal District Coordinator Nondumiso Mathenjwa distributed 1500 sanitary pads to Ntabeni Primary School (outside Esikhaleni Township, Richards Bay). This contribution is part of UNICEF South Africa and MIET AFRICA’s partnership project on ‘Strengthening school-based systems to improve education outcomes: sexual and reproductive health and rights, and menstrual hygiene management’. The sanitary pads – generously donated to MIET AFRICA by Donghae Diaper, a South Korean-based manufacturer of sanitary pads, tissues and wet wipes – are being distributed to learners through MIET AFRICA’s school-based programmes, in collaboration with the national Department of Basic Education and provincial education departments.

Pictured are learners from Ntabeni Primary School and Nondumiso Mathenjwa.