From: Rebecca Iwerks

Dear Colleagues,

I am happy to announce below and attached that RWI is accepting applicants for the 2010 Petrad and Capacity Advancement Fellowships.  Please distribute widely and send in applications by March 19^th, 2010 to fellowships@revenuewatch.org.

Best regards,

Rebecca

RWI Capacity Advancement Fellowship in Extractives

The Revenue Watch Institute (RWI) and the Oil for Development Program (OfD) of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation are pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for the 2010 Capacity Advancement Fellowship in Extractives (CA Fellows) program. The deadline for application is March 19^th 2010. The program seeks to broaden and deepen the role of the next generation of civil society activists in promoting the better management of oil, gas and minerals for the public good.  The fellowship is open to civil society activists from the following OfD countries: Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Cambodia, Ecuador, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Iraq, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria, São Tomé e Principe, Sudan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Uganda, and Vietnam.

Description:

The CA Fellowship aims to build the capacity of mid-career civil society activists by deepening their understanding of the extractive industries and broadening their skills to connect local, national, and international campaigns.  Fellows are expected to return to their organizations and coalitions with specific knowledge and skills that will enable them to better meet current challenges and develop broader training, advocacy, and research agendas. The program targets key individuals to develop a cadre of future leaders in the extractive industries transparency campaigns.

The year-long fellowship has two components – a period of focused learning and research in New York and a period of application of that learning in their own countries.

During the first half of the program, from August 2010 through January 2011, CA Fellows will be placed at the Revenue Watch Institute office in New York. Fellows will investigate international best practices for extractive resource management and governance and take part in: extractive industry related classes at leading academic institutions, donor and civil society networking events, hands-on support for original research and day-to-day RWI projects activities. Throughout this period they will be partnered with an expert mentor. Fellows are responsible for producing a paper that captures their investigations and learning at the end of this period.

After they return to their home organizations, CA Fellows will implement a project based on their new learning and experience, with the continued support of their expert mentor. They may apply for funding from the fellowship to support this work.  Revenue Watch will publish a short report from each fellow online at the culmination of the year, to highlight what was learned and the impact of the fellow’s activities.

RWI will work with the CA Fellows to co-develop a tailored capacity-building program that corresponds to their particular interests, goals and the primary challenges they expect to face in their revenue governance campaigns upon their return home.  CA Fellows will receive full financial support for the duration of their term in New York, including travel, accommodation and a living stipend.  Financial support for the implementation of home country projects may also be available after competitive review.

Criteria:

The CA Fellowship is designed for mid-level civil society activists involved in extractive industry transparency and management campaigns.  The successful candidate will have introductory knowledge of the extractive industry and related international campaigns, and a position within their organization and career enabling them to capitalize on a significant increase in learning. While exposure to other training opportunities is a plus, it is not required, and applicants must explain how this fellowship opportunity will add particular value to their development and work.  Preference will be given to applicants from newly producing countries or from contexts where civil society is newly engaged in extractive issues.

The successful CA Fellowship candidate will have, at minimum, an undergraduate degree/equivalent; a background in civil society research, monitoring and activism around extractive revenue transparency; a commitment to return to their country and continue their current campaign; a strong ability to work independently; and good English skills. They also must have the explicit support of their current home organization to pursue all aspects of this fellowship.

To apply, please send the following to Page Dykstra at fellowship@revenuewatch.org or fax at +1.212.548.4618 with ‘CA Fellowship’ in the subject line no later than March 19^th, 2010:

A. Completed application form;

B. CV or resume;

C. Letter from your current manager/head of your organization recommending you for the fellowship and committing to support fellowship and post-fellowship activities.  This letter should include a brief description of the organization’s work related to extractive industries;

D. An essay (no more than 3 pages) that includes:

• An outline of extractive related issues in your country and the current work you, your organization, and civil society groups broadly are doing in response;
• An outline of what you will seek to learn and achieve during the fellowship opportunity;
• A description of how you will use the learning and products from the fellowship on return to your country and organization; and
• A description of how this fellowship fits into your current career goals.

All candidates will be judged in an open and competitive selection process that will rate them based on: the relevance of their work experience, training and education; their technical knowledge of the extractives sector; their space and commitment to apply newly acquired knowledge and skills; and their ability to meet the specific mental, relational, and academic challenges of the fellowship.  Short-listed candidates from each region will be interviewed by RWI staff as well as outside advisors.  Additional references may be requested.

RWI Petrad Fellowship

The Revenue Watch Institute (RWI) and the Oil for Development Program (OfD) of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation are pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for the 2010 RWI Petrad Fellowship. The deadline for application is March 19^th 2010. The programs seeks to accelerate civil society leaders’ effectiveness in promoting the better management of oil, minerals, and gas for the public good and is open to civil society activists from the following OfD countries: Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Cambodia, Ecuador, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Iraq, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria, São Tomé e Principe, Sudan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Uganda, and Vietnam.

Description:

The Petrad Fellowship aims to enable fellows to return to their home organization or coalition equipped to immediately take their campaigns to a more technical and informed level and share this knowledge with their colleagues over time.  By targeting leaders in the movement, this program aims to quickly raise civil society’s ability to engage in technical debates surrounding extractive industries.

Fellows in this 8 week program will be sponsored to attend a course in Stavanger, Norway on Petroleum Policy and Natural Resource Management run by Petrad (www.petrad.no). This intensive course spanning the entire extractive industries value-chain is usually only open to senior government officials. To help bridge the knowledge and skills gained in this course to their work in their home country, the fellows will be provided with a mentor before, during and after the coursework.  Fellows will be expected to conduct the background reading, meet regularly with their mentor, participate actively and constructively in the course in Stavanger, and provide RWI with a report about how they will apply their learning from Stavanger upon their return.

Petrad Fellows will be provided with travel, course tuition, and accommodation for their stay in Stavanger.

Criteria:

The Petrad Fellowship is targeted towards civil society leaders in extractive industry transparency and management campaigns that will be able to quickly apply this new and deepened knowledge of industry policy. The successful candidate must have sufficient background in issues related to petroleum extraction to engage in nuanced discussions about policy and its application.  They also should be in a leadership role in their current organization or coalition that will enable them to promote direct change as a result of the experience.  Preference will be given to newly producing countries or context where civil society is new to engage in extractive issues.

The successful candidate will have, at minimum: an undergraduate degree/equivalent; a background in civil society research, monitoring and activism around extractive revenue transparency; a dedicated commitment to return to their country and their current campaigns; a strong ability to constructively debate issues with multiple actors; and excellent English skills. They also must have the explicit support of their current home organization to pursue all aspects of this fellowship.

Application:

To apply, please send the following to Page Dykstra at fellowship@revenuewatch.org or fax at +1.212.548.4618 with ‘Petrad Fellow’ in the subject line no later than March 19, 2010:

A. Completed application form;

B. CV or resume;

C. Letter from your current manager/head of your organization recommending you for the fellowship and committing to support fellowship and post-fellowship activities.  This letter should include a brief description of the organization’s work related to extractive industries;

D. An essay (no more than 3 pages) that includes:

• An outline of extractive related issues in your country and the current work you, your organization, and civil society groups broadly are doing in response;
• An outline of what you will seek to learn and achieve during the fellowship opportunity;
• A description of how you will use the learning and products from the fellowship on their return to your country and organization; and
• A description of how this fellowship fits into your current career goals.

All candidates will be judged in an open and competitive selection process that will rate them based on: the relevance of their work experience, training and education; their technical knowledge of the extractives sector; their space and commitment to apply their newly acquired knowledge and skills; and their ability to meet the specific mental, relational, and academic challenges of the fellowship.  Short-listed candidates from each region will be interviewed by RWI staff as well as outside advisors.  Additional references may be requested.

Rebecca Iwerks | Program Officer for Capacity Building

Revenue Watch Institute   | 1700 Broadway| New York, NY 10019

Office: +1 212-548-0136  | Mobile: +1 917 496 9264

www.revenuewatch.org

Chào các bạn,

Mình mới nhận được lịch sinh hoạt này từ anh Vũ Đức Vượng, giáo sư tại De Anza College, California. Lịch này chủ yếu là cho các bạn vùng Vịnh San Francisco. Có lẽ các bạn đọc được tiếng Anh 🙂 nên mình để nguyên bản Anh ngữ đây.

Cám ơn anh Vượng.

Chúc mọi người vui khỏe!

Hoành

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A few events relating to Vietnamese, around the Bay Area

The Summer Program at De Anza  “VIETNAM  in  VIET-NAM”  will take place in August this year.

Orientation meetings:    at De Anza: tues. March 16  —  noon – 1 pm —   Second floor of the Library (Learning Center);

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Wednesday, February 24

The Long Shadow of Vietnam

Contemporary Asia Seminar Series

Marvin Kalb, James Clark Welling Presidential Fellow at The George Washington University and Edward R. Murrow Professor Emeritus at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

Please join Marvin Kalb to discuss the impact of the Vietnam War on presidential/strategic decisions about national security issues.

Marvin Kalb is also a contributing news analyst for National Public Radio and Fox News Channel. In addition, he is frequently called upon to comment on major issues of the day by many of the nation’s other leading news organizations.

Kalb had a distinguished 30-year broadcast career, working for both CBS News and NBC News, where he served as Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, Moscow Bureau Chief, and moderator of Meet the Press. Among his many honors are two Peabody Awards, the DuPont Prize from Columbia University, the 2006 Fourth Estate Award from the National Press Club and more than a half-dozen Overseas Press Club awards. He has lectured at many universities, here and abroad. Kalb was the founding director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

A graduate of the City College of New York, Kalb has an M.A. from Harvard and was zeroing in on his Ph.D. in Russian history when he left Cambridge in 1956 for a Moscow assignment with the State Department. The following year, he joined CBS News, the last correspondent hired by Edward R. Murrow. Kalb has authored or co-authored 10 nonfiction books and two best-selling novels. His latest book, The Media and the War on Terrorism (co-edited with Stephen Hess), was the recipient of the 2004 Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism. He is currently engaged in research for a book on U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and its impact on American politics and foreign policy.

12:00p.m. – 1:30p.m, RSVP required by February 23

http://aparc.stanford.edu/events/registration/6089/

Okimoto Conference Room

Encina Hall, 3rd floor, east wing

For more information please contact Debbie Warren

dawarren@stanford.edu or 650-723-8387

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Thursday, February 25

The Health Policy Environment in Vietnam: Observations from an Outside Insider

Co-Sponsored by the Asia Health Policy Program and the South East Asia Forum

Dr. Khoa Truong, Assistant Professor of Department of Public Health Science Clemson University

The health sector’s successes in Vietnam have been described as “legendary” by international donors, but there is always the other side of the story. One can question the objectivity of reports from the government of Vietnam, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization. One can wonder in what areas the health sector has failed, who has paid for a “success story” and at what cost, and how much information is well documented and has been made public. Are there “stylized facts” regarding those aspects of health that have been successfully reformed compared with those where reform has lagged? Given these concerns, how can the research community contribute to improving health policy in Vietnam?

Dr. Truong will share his thought on recent socioeconomic development in Vietnam, discuss key health policy issues, and reflect upon his experiences including a research project in which the University of Queensland collaborated with Ministry of Health of Vietnam. Additional evidence will be drawn from a study of the cost-effectiveness of interventions to reduce tobacco use in Vietnam.

Khoa Truong was a visiting faculty member at the Hanoi School of Public Health and a research fellow at the Health Strategy and Policy Institute in 2008-2009.  Prior to that he spent six years as a doctoral fellow at the RAND Corporation.  His research interests include tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug control policies; the impacts of built environments on health; international health issues; and economic development.

He received his doctorate and master of philosophy in policy analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School and earned a master’s degree in development economics from Williams College. A native of Vietnam, he began his career working with NGOs in bilateral and multilateral development projects in Southeast Asia. He was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and wrote “most outstanding paper” submitted at an Academy Health’s Annual Research Meeting (acknowledged as the premier forum for sharing the results of scholarship on health services).

12:00p.m. – 1:15p.m, RSVP required by February 24

http://aparc.stanford.edu/events/registration/5941/

Okimoto Conference Room

Encina Hall, 3rd floor, east wing

For more information please contact Lisa Lee

llee888@stanford.edu or 650-725-2429
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A community  event

Please come join us in this upcoming theater event and post-theater dialogue within the Vietnamese community on issues of parenting, mental health, immigration policy; we are hoping that you take the collective journey to share your individual story thru story telling and to take additional step from self-care, caring for family to caring for larger community and to care for the planet earth.

Who: Guardians, Disciplinarians and Planters of Values.

Let us generate solutions together for a healthy and vibrant community!

Asian American Recovery Services, Inc. presents…

A Theater and Dialogue Event `LangTa’

performed by San Khau Viet Cali theater group.

on Feb 21st, March 7th and 14th 2010

When: February 21, 2010 Where: Shirakawa Community Center2072 Lucretia Ave San Jose, CA 95122 Time: 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

When: March 7th and 14th, 2010 Where: Mayfair Community Center2039 Kammerer Ave San Jose, CA 95116 Time: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

RSVP: thùy trang at 408-271-3900 x 343 or ttnguyen@aars-inc.org

Other: all events are free, light lunch will be provided.
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A film about New Orleans & Katrina & Viet-Ams

Dear Folks,

A VILLAGE CALLED VERSAILLES has a busy couple months coming up! Please find our March screenings below. Hope to see you at one soon, and please don’t forget to forward this on to friends who might want to see the film.

We are also excited to announce A VILLAGE CALLED VERSAILLES has just been invited to the 2010 American Documentary Showcase, curated by the US Department of State and the International Documentary Association (IDA). The film will travel with the Showcase to over 30 countries around the world this year. Finally, A VILLAGE CALLED VERSAILLES was recently honored with its third award, the Council on Foundations distinguished Henry Hampton Award for ‘Excellence in Film & Digital Media.’

Thank you for your continued support.
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SEBASTOPOL, CA:

WHAT: Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival
WHEN: 3/6 @ 7pm
WHERE: Sebastopol Cinemas, 6868 McKinley Street, Sebastopol, CA
INFO/TICKETS: Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival
FACEBOOK EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/avcvsebastopol

Filmmaker S. Leo Chiang, and associate producers Brittney Shepherd and Eva Moss will be in attendance.
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SAN JOSE, CA:

WHAT: California Association for Bilingual Ed (CABE) Conference
WHEN: 3/12 @ 4pm
WHERE: McEnery Convention Center, 150 West San Carlos St., San Jose, CA
FACEBOOK EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/avcvcabe

Filmmaker S. Leo Chiang will be in attendance. Please visit the CABE Conference page for more information.

SAN FRANCISCO/SAN JOSE, CA (Three Screenings):

WHAT: San Francisco Int’l Asian American Film Fest
INFO/TICKETS: San Francisco Int’l Asian Am Film Festival. Members of Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) receive discounts.
FACEBOOK EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/sfiaaff

Screening #1
WHEN: Sat 3/13 @ 2:15 pm
WHERE: Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, 1881 Post St @ Fillmore, SF

Screening #2
WHEN: Tue 3/16 @ 9 pm
WHERE: VIZ Cinema, 1746 Post St @ Webster, SF

Screening #3 – SAN JOSE
WHEN: Sat 3/20 @ 5:30 pm
WHERE: Camera 12 Cinema, 201 S. 2nd St @ San Carlos, San Jose

Filmmaker S. Leo Chiang and Associate Producers Brittney Shepherd & Eva Moss to attend.