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Monitoring social investment in Africa: do spending targets help?
(2018)
Social investment refers to the economic effort made on the social development of individuals, households and communities. The use of the term “investment” is applied because the resources allocated to social issues (i.e., ...
Human trafficking in Southern Africa
(2017)
The present policy brief provides an outline of the modern slavery, smuggling and trafficking debate in the context of Southern Africa, in which the authors argue that, notwithstanding the considerable investment made by ...
S’appuyer sur les enseignements tirés de la poursuite de l’objectif du Millénaire pour le développement concernant le VIH/sida pour faire reculer la pauvreté et les inégalités après 2015
(2017)
La présente note d’orientation met l’accent sur la relation entre, d’une part, le problème sanitaire spécifique du VIH/sida, et de l’autre, les deux phénomènes de la pauvreté et des inégalités. L’objet en est double : ...
Drawing on lessons learned from the Millennium Development Goal on HIV/AIDS to reduce poverty and inequality in the post-2015 era
(2015)
The present policy brief emphasizes the relationship between the specific health problem of HIV/AIDS on the one hand, and the two phenomena of poverty and inequality on the other. Its objective is twofold: recalling that ...
Les politiques urbaines nationales en Afrique: contribution des villes à la croissance économique en Afrique
(2017)
La dynamique économique inhérente aux villes conjuguées à la rapide transformation urbaine que connaît l’Afrique rend les villes de plus en plus cruciales pour la détermination de l’avenir économique du continent. Cependant, ...
Alternative perspectives of the performance of Africa in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
(2014)
The underlying message of this policy brief is that the current performance of Africa in achieving the Millennium Development Goals should not be separated from its initial conditions. Therefore, as the final year of the ...
Policy harmonization in addressing gender-based violence in Southern Africa
(2013)
This report presents the results of a study undertaken to analyse the degree of gender-based violence gender-based violence policy harmonization in Southern Africa. The study utilized various global, regional and sub ...
Policy brief : understanding the relationship between health and education for development in Nigeria
(2018-05)
Health and education are intertwined with economic growth and development, and hence, they are keys to human capital development. Nigeria like other African countries no doubt faces broad challenges on the education and ...
Building biomedical engineering capacity for improved health-care outcomes in Africa
(2014)
This policy brief recommends three policy actions that can be used to mobilize universities to build bio-medical engineering skills, entrepreneurial mindset and innovative capacity in order to meet the continent’s health-care ...
Politiques urbaines nationales: intégration de l'urbanisation dans la planification du développement national
(2017)
L'urbanisation est une mégatendance et l'une des caractéristiques essentielles du XXIème siècle, en particulier pour l'Afrique qui deviendra, dans quelques années, la région à l'urbanisation la plus rapide de la planète. ...