In the framework of the 13th Policy Dialogue Forum, session 3.4 "Ensuring a systems’ approach for teacher development and mentorship amidst emerging issues: Experiences and lessons learnt in Africa" organized by GPE and IDRC KIX Africa 19 Hub described lessons learned and shared critical knowledge on innovative strategies in systems’ approaches for teacher professional development and lifelong learning for all.

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How do you go from absolute poverty to passive income in a short amount of time? What if you were raised on the other side of the world, where even a basic education had to be fought for, and every opportunity was a constant struggle? This is the real story of Yamundow Camara, who went from sleeping on a dirt floor in a small village of Gambia to making a million dollars per year thanks to real estate.

Yamundow grew up in an environment foreign to many of us. When her parents passed away in her youth, she was forced to live with relatives that treated her as a nuisance, not someone worth nurturing. She slept on the floor of her family’s home and was sometimes lucky enough to have a cardboard box as a mattress. She was set to be wed in her early teenage years, but thanks to her drive, determination, and pleading of her aunts, Yamundow was given a chance to go to high school and college and later immigrate to the US.

From there, Yamundow put success as her sole focus. She not only academically overachieved, but was able to do an INCREDIBLE amount of investing with almost no money, no credit score, and no experience in the industry. She now sits on over thirty rental units, with a monthly income that rivals most Americans’ yearly salaries. Yamundow has one of the most incredible stories we’ve ever shared on the podcast, and you’ll have to tune in to hear her unimaginable path to success.

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00:00 Intro
01:02 Quick Tip
01:31 Orphaned and Sleeping on the Floor
05:47 The Dream of Owning a Home
07:55 Scholarships, Degrees, and Moving to the US
15:23 Getting the First Deal (and Things Going WRONG)
26:41 7 Rentals in 1 Year!
35:08 Making $80K a MONTH!
43:08 Analyzing Deals and Biggest Challenges
47:18 Taking a Hit on Taxes
50:49 Yaamu's Current Portfolio
52:51 Tips to Keep Quality Contractors
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Welcome to this video, where we explore the exciting topic "Youthful and Useful: Building Collaborations Across Africa for the #AfricaWeWant." This topic was recently discussed at the AfricaNXT event, where various speakers shared their perspectives and insights on how youthful energy can be leveraged to build the Africa we want.

The African continent is experiencing a youth boom, and it presents a unique opportunity to harness the potential of its youth towards causes that promote the actualization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With technology, this generation of youth is the most connected in history and is becoming increasingly conscious of the SDGs, active citizenship, and leadership.

Through the AfricaNXT event, various speakers shared their experiences of working on collaborative projects across the continent and highlighted the successes and challenges of such initiatives.

In this video, we bring you highlights of the AfricaNXT event and share insights from the speakers on how youthful energy can be leveraged to build the Africa we want. Join us as we explore how collaboration can help drive positive change across the continent and how we can all work together to achieve the Africa we want.

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U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit - Day 1 - Civil Society Forum - Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General:

Noon Briefing:

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- Senior Personnel Appointments
- Iran, Mauritania shipwreck
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- World Food Programme
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Secretary-General Good afternoon. A travel announcement for you. On Tuesday, the Secretary-General will be heading back to the UN Climate Change Conference, COP25, in Madrid. There, he will take part in several events including the High-Level Meeting of Caring for Climate organized the UN Global Compact and the High-Level Event on Global Climate Action. As you know, he has been calling on leaders to increase their ambition when it comes to nationally determined contributions, and he has also urged them to agree on the guidelines for the implementation of article 6 of the Paris Agreement. While at the COP, he will continue meeting with ministers, members of the business community and civil society leaders to reinforce this message.
The Secretary-General will also take part in the closing, which is scheduled to take place on Friday evening in Madrid.

COP25 update
Also, at the COP25, young people took centre stage as they took part in the Young and Future Generations Day.
Young activists made statements and participated in roundtables with decision makers and discussed how to raise ambition, how to empower the youth to implement the Paris Agreement, and how to foster intergenerational cooperation.
The UN Climate Change Executive Secretary, Patricia Espinosa, stressed their role to raise awareness of this issue and encouraged them to continue speaking up for change.

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Mankind continues to face one of the deepest health crises in its history, affecting the quality of democracies, economies, and welfare worldwide. More than five years from the adoption of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals framework, we find ourselves at a point of setback, where the need to have strong and inclusive institutions, able to guarantee justice and peace, becomes instrumental to enable the achievement of the already ambitious SDGs.

The Covid-19 pandemic has presented significant challenges to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, jeopardizing the global ability to achieve all 17 goals by 2030. This becomes evident with increased levels of inequalities, limitations in State capacity, erosion of democratic institutions, constraints in the access to justice and protection of human rights, increased conflicts based on exacerbates social, political and economic weaknesses all over the world, among other concerning effects that continue to impact us on a daily basis. In addition to this, limitations in the capacity to collect data (official and unofficial) and access to information has presented complications to accurately measure progress and have a clear idea of where we stand and what is needed to continue moving forward.

This event seeks to enable a conversation to discuss evidence-base findings and propose forward looking recommendation to recover from the pandemic, enhancing methodologies for measuring progress, the availability of data, and the effects on the quality of institutions. The conversation will highlight the importance of data collection from official and unofficial sources to achieve SDG 16+ in the post-pandemic world, as well as the need to overcome limitations in the access to information.



Moderator

Massimo Tommasoli, Director of Global Programme and Permanent Observer for International IDEA to the United Nations; Coordinator of the SDG16 Data Initiative

Discussion Panel

- Sarah Chamness Long, Director, Access to Justice Research, World Justice Project (WJP)
- Haakon Gjerløw, Senior Researcher, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
- Toby Mendel, Executive Director, Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD)
- Ivana Bjelic Vucinic, Projects Manager, ‎Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)
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A discussion on the IMF and World Bank Group Spring 2022 meetings and the economic situation of the African continent in a post-COVID-19 context.

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Heather Conley, Director for the Europe Program at CSIS, leads the discussion on the migration crisis in Europe at the 2015 CSIS Global Security Forum.

Panelists include:

Philipp Ackerman
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Geoff Dyer
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Eric Schwartz
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Changing the narrative on Africa and looking beyond aid and potential dependency on it are essential aspects for future development. On 9 May we invite you to a panel debate on this topic.

Africa has been growing strongly over the past decade and has had gradual yet uneven success in increasing human development levels. However, putting Africa on the path to sustained and balanced development remain a great challenge for the international community.

With the war in Ukraine’s impact on the African continent – on top of Covid-19, debt crisis, conflict and climate change - poverty rates remain stubbornly high, and with its limited economic diversification, persisting inequalities, high unemployment, democratic decline, rising food insecurity and environmental degradation, the continent has yet to embark on a sustainable development path which can benefit all women and men over time.

For Africa to succeed in their development the international system must focus more specifically on the continent and discover more effective instruments for addressing its particular needs. Changing the narrative on Africa and looking beyond aid and potential dependency on it are essential aspects for future development. During this year’s EU-AU Summit, African leaders expressed the need for a change of mindset, from a donor-recipient approach to a one based on partnership and equal treatment.

On the 9th of May, UNDP Norway, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and the Center for Development invite you to a panel debate where we will raise questions related to development challenges on the African continent and the need for a new narrative.

Participants are:

Ahunna Eziakonwa, Assistant Secretary-General and Director of UNDP’s Regional Africa Bureau
Morten Bøås, Research Professor at NUPI,
Hamdi A. Mohamed, Statistics Norway and Rethinking Economics Norge
Ragnhild Nordås, Senior Researcher at PRIO
Moderator of this event is Professor Dan Banik, Director of the Oslo SDG Initiative, University of Oslo.

Biographies

Ahunna Eziakonwa, Assistant Secretary-General and Director of UNDP’s Regional Africa Bureau

Ahunna Eziakonwa has many years of distinguished service with the UN. From 2015 and 2018 she was the UN Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Ethiopia. Before that, she served as Resident Coordinator in Uganda and Lesotho, and held several posts with the OCHA, as Chief of the Africa Section in New York and in a number of field duty stations (Liberia, Sierra Leone). She also worked for the UN Departments of Peacekeeping Operations and Public Information in New York. Before joining the UN, Ms. Eziakonwa held a series of senior positions with CSOs in Africa. She holds a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Morten Bøås, NUPI

Morten Bøås is Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. He conducts fieldwork in Africa and the Middle East. The author of numerous reports and articles, his most recent books include Africa’s Insurgents: Navigating an Evolving Landscape (2017) and Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention: a Guide to Research in Closed and Violent Contexts (2020). Bøås has led several large international research projects including the EU Horizon 2020 funded projects EUNPACK (2016-19) and PREVEX (2020-22)

Hamdi A. Mohamed, Statistics Norway and Rethinking Economics Norge

Hamdi A. Mohamed works in Statistics Norway and is a board member of Rethinking Economics Norway, an international network of academics, students and others with interest in economics which aims to renew and enrich the subject of economics by building on the diversity of economic perspectives and traditions that exist.

Ragnhild Nordås, PRIO
Ragnhild Nordås is a Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. She is interested in violent conflict and repression, and in particular the dynamics of conflict-related sexual violence. Her current research projects focus on sexual violence by state actors and the role of demography, gender norms, and corruption.

UN Capital Development Fund in partnership with the European Union and the Organization of African, Caribbean, and Pacific States (OACPS) organized an event to launch a new joint initiative in digital finance. The objective of the initiative is to unlock the potential of digital financial services for the resilience of economies in OACPs countries.

The joint action aims to reach more than 600,000 women, youth and entrepreneurs that have been hit by the effects of the pandemic in their activities and livelihoods.

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The U.S. Global Leadership Coalition’s 2023 Mid-Atlantic Summit brings our regional community together through a hybrid event that showcases what investments in diplomacy, development, and democracy are worth to the security and stability of communities across the Mid-Atlantic region.

About this event
Plastic waste across the African continent is expected to geometrically increase in the next decade due to rising global production, importation and usage, as well as poor plastic waste mismanagement. Plastic waste mismanagement presents substantial risks to biodiversity and marine life and contributes to global warming and consequently climate change. To address the problem of plastic waste mismanagement, there is a need for critical research that provides data to bridge gaps between plastic waste policy and regulations and their enforcement. One of our goals is to engage in research on the African continent to generate relevant data that governments and their agencies can utilize to make informed decisions about regulating and enforcing plastic regulations, creating awareness, and encouraging and training local stakeholders on effective waste management strategies.

This AFRICER workshop seeks to provide opportunities for those in the plastic waste management space (i.e. policy analysts, enforcement officers, plastic waste management practitioners and educators, etc.) to engage in conversations and discussions on effectively implementing plastic waste policies in Africa. The outcomes of the workshop will be relevant for policy planning and implementation. Specific focus areas will include:

Overview of plastic waste policies across African countries;
The importance of data in developing, implementing, and enforcing plastic waste policies;
Behavioral change as an outcome of effective policy implementation; and
Building capacities of local authorities to enforce plastic waste policies.
Guest speakers

Márcia Balisciano, Chief Sustainability Officer, Global Head of ESG and Corporate Responsibility, RELX.
Dr Pritish Behuria, Associate Prof, University of Manchester
Aly Elnady, Consulting Analyst, Sustainability & Social Impact at CID Consulting – Egypt.
Huldah Ateka, Principal Associate at Anjarwalla & Khanna | ALN)-Kenya.
This workshop is supported by the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens.

Background

One of the major challenges to achieving a better society in Africa is corruption. Corruption can be referred to as practices such as bribery, facilitation payment, nepotism and favoritism. In Africa, corruption can have different causes and consequences. The key aim of this episode is to facilitate the interactions and reflections upon three issues: (1) major systemic and structural causes of corruption in Africa; (2) consequences of corruption; (3) major techniques that can be put forward to fight against corruption in Africa.

How is trade driving economic transformation in Africa today? With David Luke, Hanan Morsy and Maudo Jallow.

The Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa is based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Max Riché has been travelling all over the globe, looking for people and answers that deal with a changing climate. Armed with his photocamera, he portayed people and wrote down their stories in order to capture re-actions and actions against climate change. Riché now invites you, to learn from your feeling towards this planet and become your own climate hero | Max Riché, a former engineer, is an environmentalist and award-winning portrait and documentary photographer and director based in Paris, and is alos the Creative Director of Triptych content studio. In 2009, he founded the global photography movement Climate Heroes, culminating with a major exhibition in December 2015 during COP21 in Paris. His projects have taken him to the Indonesian jungle in the company of Mentawai medicine men, and bathing among the throngs of pilgrims in India during Maha Kumbh Mela festival. As the Creative Director of Triptych, he now strives to tell important human, social and environmental stories in support of organisations voicing themselves on the front lines of a rapidly changing digital and global world This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

The Mali Empire was an empire in West Africa from c. 1235 to 1670. The empire was founded by Sundiata Keita and became renowned for the wealth of its rulers, especially Mansa Musa . The Manding languages were spoken in the empire. At its peak, Mali was the largest empire in West Africa, profoundly and widely influencing the culture of the region through the spread of its language, laws and customs. Much of the recorded information about the Mali Empire comes from 14th-century North African Arab historian Ibn Khaldun, 14th-century Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta and 16th-century Moroccan traveller Leo Africanus. The other major source of information is Mandinka oral tradition, as recorded by storytellers known as griots.

The empire began a small Mandinka kingdom at the upper reaches of the Niger River, centered around the town of Niani . During the 11th and 12th centuries, it began to develop as an empire following the decline of the Ghana Empire, or Wagadu, to the north. During this period, trade routes shifted southward to the savanna, stimulating the growth of states such as Bonoman. The early history of the Mali Empire is unclear, as there are conflicting and imprecise accounts by both Arab chroniclers and oral traditionalists. Sundiata Keita is the first ruler for which there is accurate written information . Sundiata Keita was a warrior-prince of the Keita dynasty who was called upon to free the Mali people from the rule of the king of the Sosso Empire, Soumaoro Kanté. The conquest of Sosso in c. 1235 gave the Mali Empire access to the trans-Saharan trade routes.