This article was originally drafted by Chris Kwaja and the Centre for Democracy and Development for the newsletter “West Africa Insight” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click [...]
When the Future Challenges Team put out a call for local views on International Women’s Day, I thought long and hard. The first issues that came to mind were African [...]
In many sub-Saharan African especially countries (DR Congo, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Liberia & Mali) a considerable proportion of the population faces problems of financial access to essential health care [...]
This article was originally drafted by the African Center for Economic Transformation for the newsletter “West Africa Trends” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, [...]
Modern urbanization in most Sub-Saharan African countries has been dominated by the growth of a single primate city, the political and commercial center of the nation; its emergence was, more [...]
East Africa has the lowest level of urbanization on the continent. United Nations Population Division (UNPD) data estimates East Africa’s rate of urbanization to be 23 percent in 2007. Circular [...]
This article was originally drafted by the African Center for Economic Transformation for the newsletter “West Africa Trends” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please [...]
This article was originally drafted by the Society for International Development for the newsletter “GHEA Outlook” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click [...]
In launching the “Agenda for Change” in 2008, the Government of Sierra Leone declared “agricultural development and food security to be the foundation of the country’s economic development and poverty [...]
The advent of democracy in Sierra Leone has opened up many opportunities for all sectors of the economy. The involvement of the United Nations, the European Union and NGOs from [...]
Ecological issues are a matter of survival for almost all developing countries where we have communities that are disadvantaged in all facets of life. In India lately, I have seen [...]
Drawing on Global Witness’ experience in Angola, Cambodia, DRC, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Sudan, this report aims to promote understanding of, and a strategy for dealing with, the problem of [...]
