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Fixing Youth Skills Crisis The Key To Unlocking Economic Growth

The global education goal that forms part of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals remains significantly off track, with various reports highlighting a concerning trend that, unless drastic changes are implemented, the world will not meet its commitments to inclusive and equitable quality education by 2030. According to Eugene Ho, Global CSR Director for Future Skills at SAP, […]

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Africa’s Food Systems Forum 2024 Set To Convene Over 5,000 Stakeholders From Across Africa And Internationally

World leaders, innovators, academia, development agencies,  farmers organizations, and the private sector from across Africa and beyond will convene in Rwanda to participate in the annual Africa Food Systems Forum (AFSF) from September 2 to 6, 2024. This year’s summit themed “Innovate, Accelerate, and Scale: Delivering Food Systems Transformation in a Digital and Climate Era,” […]

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The Association Of African Exhibition Organisers Partners With The Event Greening Forum To Drive Sustainable Practices Across The Industry

As the African population rapidly increases, expected to nearly double from 1.3 to 2.5 billion by 2050[1], the demand for secure jobs and a sustainable future will increase in tandem. According to the United Nations, as laid out in their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sustainability is key to the growth of Africa[2] with the SDGs closely aligned with Africa’s […]

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To Attain The SDGs, We Must End Female Genital Mutilation

By Stephanie Musho and Esther M Passaris The tips of our fingers have densely packed nerve endings. That is why a miniscule paper cut activates our pain receptors and causes stubborn pain for a day or two. Now consider that a clitoris has over 10,000 nerve endings. It is the human female’s most sensitive erogenous zone, explaining the […]

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TDB Group And Finnfund Sign MoU To Collaborate On Promoting Sustainable Development Investments

The Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank Group (TDB Group) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Finnfund, a Finnish development financier and impact investor, to promote investments that contribute to the UN sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in key projects in TDB member states. The MoU, signed by TDB Group President Emeritus […]

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Africa Amid Covid19

Africa And The Global South Amid Covid19: Keeping The SDGs While Developing The New Deal

Unprecedented. We often hear this word in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic. While this attribute rightly describes the current global situation, the real risk is that other fundamental problems are crowded out. The focus on the mega-crisis does not mean that other international problems and struggles will magically disappear. The pandemic invites globally-minded leaders and organizations to […]

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Private Sector Impact Investment Partnership To Deliver SDGs

Recently, the launch of Impact Investing Ghana (IIGH) an independent, private-sector collective of entrepreneurship advisory and investment practitioners with the release of an emotive video that captured with a breathtaking narrative just one of the many Development, Social and Environmental challenges we face: plastic waste and mass unemployment. The call to action was simple: rethink Development […]

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