The Manna Center Program for Food Safety & Security, Tel Aviv University is now accepting applications for its 2016 Summer Institute in Food Safety and Security; 3-22 July, 2016. The programme – with an Agriculture track and a Policy and Nutrition track -- provides participants with multi-disciplinary insights into global food security issues. Application deadline: May 20, 2016. Click here for more details and registration.

Do you have a technological idea that answers a social need? SocialTechLab offers an annual programme that guides entrepreneurs step by step from an idea to a viable product without taking any equity. They seek projects in e-health and device, sharing economy, education, personal safety, environmental and third age. Application is on and rolling. Apply now.

An Israeli incubator -- the Mass Challenge -- is supporting 100 African startups with mentorship, office space, access to a vast network and other resources for four months of acceleration. Additionally, top startups are to receive cash awards in no-equity and non-dilutive grants in the end. Read more.

Register for the Internet.org Innovation Challenge and have a chance to win US$150,000. The challenge is aimed to reward individuals and organizations that have internet-based solutions to promote education and economic empowerment in countries throughout Africa. Deadline: May 1st, 2016.

Apply for Cartier Women’s Initiative Award 2016. This award, sponsored by Cartier, the Women’s Forum, McKinsey & Company and INSEAD business school, is to support and promote projects by women entrepreneurs, especially those at their initial phase. Award to be won is a cash prize of US$ 20,000. Application deadline: 27th April, 2016.

One Acre Fund – an organization that supports and provides business solutions to 300,000 small holder farmers globally – is hiring in various positions. So if you are interested in building a career in international development, click here to make your application.

Apply now for an opportunity to participate in the Samsung Runway accelerator programme. The Runway accelerates the development of early stage startups, helping them reach the level of maturity required to be a candidate for further collaboration with Samsung and for their takeoff into global markets. Application deadline: April 30th, 2016.

Aditya Birla Group -- an Indian-based innovation hub -- is accepting applications for its Health Tech and New Media Bizlabs. This platform is to help innovative startups gain access to international markets and rapidly scale up by leveraging the Group’s global reach and business expertise. Registration deadline: 2nd April, 2016. Find more details here.

Innovation: Africa's CEO, Sivan Borowich-Yaari, was featured on Channel 2. In this talk, she discusses how Israeli technologies directly transform people's lives in rural African villages to create energy, pump water and change future generations forever.

FIT -- children's Prosthetic Leg designed by Oz Benderman -- is an affordable, high-quality, adjustable, custom-made prosthetic leg for transtibial amputee children in developing countries. It “grows” along with the child, adjusting to height and leg size to allow continued use over the course of many years. They just won the Grand Challenges Israel grant of NIS 500,000.

It is high time women's priorities and solutions are considered in today’s most pressing development challenges. In this article, five lessons are outlined on collective advocacy to leverage women's voices

In this article, the Economist reveals the future direction of African healthcare after 34 in-depth interviews with leading experts and literature reviews.

Paul Collier describes the condition of the one billion people in 50 failed states of the developing world and analyses the causes of the failure. The solutions he suggests are interesting to know in his award winning book – The Bottom Billion: why the poorest countries are falling and what can be done about it.