Special Issue: Financing development in Africa

CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Advocacy & campaigns 3. Jobs & announcements

Features

Towards 2030: Financing development in Africa

Tigere Chagutah

This special issue of Pambazuka News brings you analysis and commentary by experts, most based on the continent, outlining what it will take for Africa to achieve its much sought after transformation in the post-MDGs era.
 

Leaving no child in Africa behind: Financing public investments in children in the post-MDGs era

Bob Libert Muchabaiwa

What is required now, more than ever before, is action. The financing architectures of many African countries need overhauling. They need to engender equity, child rights, transparency and accountability. Unless that is don, the many regional and international commitments that touch on children will remain mere political pronouncements.
 

Leaving no African woman behind: Financing gender in the post-MDG era

Brenda Muturi

Gender inequality in Africa is one of the key drivers of poverty, yet there is the lack of political will to make substantive and concrete financial commitments to achieving gender equality. The money simply must follow the rhetoric.

Towards a transformed and more resilient agriculture sector in Africa

Jessica Mwanzia and Andrew Osiany

This article reflects on the status and progress made in the revitalisation of the agriculture sector in Africa. It looks at the challenges that make it difficult to increase food productivity, create decent employment, and end inequalities in our food systems, and what it will take to transform agriculture in Africa.
 

Infrastructure investment should benefit all in the drive for Africa’s transformation

Tigere Chagutah

It must be emphasised that if sustainable development and real transformation are to be achieved, infrastructure development and the approaches chosen to finance it must serve the people, bring education, health and clean energy to the poor and marginalised.

Poverty amidst plenty: How Africans are robbed of benefits of mineral wealth

Kwesi W. Obeng

Africa has not benefited substantially from its mineral wealth. It is, therefore, essential for resource-rich nations to tailor their economic policies to effectively harness and utilise mineral revenues to improve the productivity of non-mineral sectors to break out of the extractive enclave.
 

The Global Partnership meeting: A chance to get development right

Julie Seghers

The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation will be holding its second High-Level Meeting in Nairobi from 28 November to 1 December 2016. Why will this meeting matter, and how can it drive development players to scale up the effectiveness and quality of their actions in view of delivering the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals?  
 

Preserving the integrity of ODA in the fight against enduring poverty

Willem Fourie

The importance of poverty eradication characterises African and global development priorities, and seems to lie at the foundation of Official Development Assistance. Africa, the region with the greatest number of the world’s poor, should be the logical focus of development cooperation partnerships. Yet only 20% of reported ODA is spent in Africa, and there’s evidence that it’s getting less.

Making aid and domestic public finance work for Africa and its people

Tigere Chagutah

The key to sustainable, adequate and predictable financing of Africa’s development no longer lies in the delivery of aid from traditional donors but largely in unlocking the domestic resource potential, so that the continent can harness more of its own revenue for development.

Advocacy & campaigns

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