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Date(s) - 07/10/2023
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• Competition

Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA) invites University Students to apply for this competition.

The Case Competition shall be held on 4 November 2023. It gives University students in all countries an opportunity to experience the intellectual challenge and excitement of programme evaluation, with the expectation of exciting careers. Working in small teams on a downloaded evaluation case, students gain a better appreciation of the Evaluation profession and the career opportunities that it offers.

The main requirement is that all team members are university students, or at least were registered as students as of January 1, 2023. This opportunity is open to every youth in the world.

AHOA’s target is to present 50 teams of 5 youths each in 50 AHOA-member countries (one team per country). To ensure that we ‘Leave no one behind’, each country team shall comprise both female and male university students who are citizens or residents of the country. One AHOA member/partner organization from each country shall coordinate respective country teams.

All interested eligible undergraduate youth (males and females), under 35 years of age, and ANY youth who wishes to be contacted with similar opportunities in future, are hereby kindly requested to take these two steps:

1. Complete this form
2. Send an email to afrihealthpartnerships@gmail.com under the following as ‘Subject (of the email message)’ : Youth’s country, Youth’s names, WECC 2023, Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA) e.g. “Nigeria, Uzodinma Adirieje, WECC 2023, Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA): with the following information :
   • Full names
   •  Sex (Male of Female)
   • Age
   • Course being studied in the University
   • Name of University
   • Country
   • Region/Continent (e.g. West Africa/Africa)

AHOA member/partner organizations are also encouraged to consider coordinating this activity in their respective countries, by supporting the eligible undergraduates to submit correct information and follow the EOI process outlined above.

Since spaces are limited (5 persons per country), we are encouraged to apply immediately/asap.

The deadline is 7 October 2023, to complete the 2 processes above for each youth candidate. This will enable AHOA Secretariat to review and inform the selected students, as well as complete their application/onboarding formalities.

Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA) – winner of the SDG 3 – Good Health and Wellbeing Champion Award is a community-focused civil society organizations(CSOs) international Movement/Network Coalition and Think-tank deeply engaged in promoting evidence-based credible actions and support for policies, practices, programmes and interventions that enhance productivity, accountability, transparency, and civil society’s coordination/contributions in gender justice, financial inclusion, equitable access to health, democracy, good governance and human rights; in Society Welfare/Social Safety nets, Development Work/Sustainable Development, Health – including Traditional Complimentary Integrative Health (TCIH)/Ayurvedic Medicine; and in educational, literary, scientific, social, climate change, energy, biodiversity, nutritional/agricultural, cultural, sporting, governance, human rights, and charitable intervention(s)/purpose(s).

AHOA’s mandate includes Building an inclusive and broad movement for Health and Sustainable Development; Creating avenues to influence the design and implementation of policies, practices, programmes and interventions; Promoting coordination, information exchange and harmonization among the civil society and stakeholder groups across the world; and Promoting citizen involvement, leadership and accountability mechanisms in the implementation of respective interventions. AHOA has a global membership/partnership of more than 2,000 (Two Thousand) organizations mainly from the global South and promotes the ‘One Health’ paradigm where Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being. AHOA uses partnership/collaboration, advocacy, research/evidence generation, capacity development, outreaches, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) as strategies. AHOA’s activities/interventions are for the benefit of rural and poor urban dwellers, marginalized, vulnerable and disadvantaged populations of women, children, youth, adolescents, persons with disability, persons in conflict-affected areas, the poor, elderly, rural, disadvantaged and vulnerable persons, orphans and the elderly.

The AHOA CSOs Movement/Network Coalition and Think-tank works to explore the nexus between and within the following sectors:

1. Health – including UHC, PHC, Reproductive Health, Maternal and Newborn Child Health (MNBCH), Primary Health Care (PHC), HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB), Malaria, Non-Communicable Disease (NCDs), Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), Infectious and Communicable diseases, Vaccines/Immunization and COVID-19;
2. Energy and Environment – including biodiversity, environment, ecosystems, renewable energy, energy efficiency, conservation and climate change (BEEREEECCC);
3. Nutrition/micronutrients and Food Security;
4. Gender, Democracy, Good Governance, Peace, Human Security and Human Rights; and
5. Sustainable Development across regions, populations, communities and generations

AHOA partners with the Society for Conservation and Sustainability of Energy and Environment in Nigeria (SOCSEEN). AHOA has members/local Chapters in Nigeria’s 36 States and Federal Capital Abuja, National Chapters in some countries, sub-regional Chapters in North Africa, West and Central Africa, East and Southern Africa; and in America, Asia, Caribbean, Europe and Oceania regions. AHOA has a Consultative Status at the United Nations ECOSOC; and an Accredited Observer status at the UNEP/United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA).