After 7 years of a bloody civil war in Liberia, the ECOWAS monitoring group-ECOMOG organized what is considered as the most credible elections in the ECOWAS sub region

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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.

On 20 August 2020, the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, the Human Rights Institute of South Africa, DITSHWANELO - The Botswana Centre for Human Rights and the Global Rainbow Foundation (Mauritius) hosted a webinar on civil society experiences on the shadow reporting mechanism of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

The webinar provided the opportunity to learn about the experiences of civil society organisations in using the shadow report mechanism for promoting human rights at national levels, especially in the absence of civil society reporting guidelines on shadow reporting to the African Commission.

Theme: Civil society experiences on the shadow reporting mechanism of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

Chair: Ms Alice Mogwe
Director, DITSHWANELO - The Botswana Centre for Human Rights

Panellists:

• Professor Frans Viljoen
Director, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria (UP)
Welcome and Introduction to the state reporting procedure and shadow reporting
• Ms Patience Mungwari Mpani
Manager, Women’s Rights Unit, Centre for Human Rights, UP
State reporting, challenges and prospects and the role of civil society
• Mr Armoogum Parsuramen
Founder President, Global Rainbow Foundation
Experience and highlights about the development of the Mauritius shadow report
• Ms Nora Ho Tu Nam
Independent Consultant
The process of writing the Mauritius Shadow report
• Ms Corlett Letlojane
Executive Director, Human Rights Institute of South Africa (HURISA)
Shadow Report Guidelines, Way Forward and Next Steps

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, is a Continental human rights body entrusted by the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights to promote and protect human rights in Africa. Article 45 (c) of the African Charter strengthen the Commission mandate to cooperate with African and international institutions concerned with the promotion and protection of human rights. The ACHPR Rules of Procedure 74/75 enhances CSOs’ cooperation relations with the African Commission.

The Commission has over the years developed mechanisms for CSOs enjoyment of this relationship. These have advanced various opportunities, including contribution on agenda items, attending sessions, research, capacity building on the African system of human rights, such as institution of a communication procedure and drafting of CSO Shadow reports. These processes are creating vibrant space for CSO constructive engagement with the Commission concerning human rights on the African Continent.

The State periodic reporting is an imperative duty set under Article 62 of the African Charter and Article 26 of the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) for State Parties to demonstrate the steps taken in compliance with the African Charter and the Maputo Protocol. During its 66th Ordinary Session (13 July to 17 August 2020) the African Commission examined was highlighted by the examination of a list of state party reports, which included a the 9th to 10th Combined Periodic Report (2016 - 2019) of the Republic of Mauritius.

DITSHWANELO - The Botswana Centre for Human Rights and The Global Rainbow Foundation (Mauritius) jointly submitted a shadow report to the African Commission, with the aim of contributing relevant information to assist with an objective examination of the Mauritius State report.

This webinar provides the opportunity to learn about the experiences of civil society organisations in using the shadow report mechanism for promoting human rights at national levels, especially in the absence of civil society reporting guidelines on shadow reporting to the African Commission. CSOs shadow reporting guidelines are set to provide a uniform reporting structure for enhancement of the content provided by CSOs and this is a major premise of the African Commission’s Resolution 436 adopted during its 27th Extra Ordinary Session held from 19 February - 4 March 2020 in Banjul, The Gambia. This resolution mandates the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders and Focal Point on Reprisals in Africa, the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa and the Special Rapporteur on Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Internally Displaced Persons and Migrant in Africa to develop these Guidelines on Shadow Reporting.

It is based on this background that we convene this webinar to unpack the objective and experiences in submission of the CSO Shadow Reports to influence the content of the guidelines on shadow reporting.

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TIME2FARM: A Gambian-Danish couple met and married in Brussels, Belgium back in 2010 and ten years later moved to Denmark. In 2021 they purchased the first land in Gambia.

TIME2FARM is our attempt at preserving local agriculture, produced by local work force, transported and sold locally and finally consumed locally within Gambia. While living in Denmark most of the year, we travel to Gambia as frequent as possible to sustain the project and to invest further – while anchoring the farming efforts further into local business.
All this to increase employment, fair food prices and introducing Gambia to Danes and vice versa. Gambia is a wonderful coastal country with a thriving tourism industry, and full of
potential for diverse agricultural development.

The aim of the webinar was to present the findings of the report and create a space for dialogue between national governments, UN agencies, international and regional organizations and civil society from the West Africa region to discuss the implications of the findings for future policymaking to enhance social protection for agri-food systems workers in West Africa.

Speakers
Bintia Stephen Tchicaya, Senior Policy Officer for the FAO Sub Regional Office for West Africa, Programme Leader for Social Protection for Africa, FAO Regional Office
Sintiki Tarfa Ugbe, Director of Humanitarian and Social Affairs, ECOWAS
Gouantoueu Robert Guei, Sub Regional Coordinator for West Africa, FAO
Gabriela Perin, Researcher, IPC-IG
João Pedro Bregolin Dytz, Researcher, IPC-IG
Nourjelha Mohamed, Researcher, IPC-IG
Koffi Eugène N'DRI, Director of Planning, Coordination, Project Monitoring and Statistics at the Ministry of Employment and Social Protection, Côte d’Ivoire
George Kwadwo Osei Ababio, National Coordinator of Ghana Productive Safety Net Project, Ministry of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development
Mahmoud Ali Sako, Coordinator of Mali Social Safety Nets Program Jigisemejiri
Papa Malick Gningue, Director of the Management of Social Safety Nets Programs, Senegal
Mr. Marcelino Monteiro, Director of Contributions and Collection, National Institute of Social Security, Cape Verde

Moderator: Ana Ocampo, Regional Social Protection Advisor, WFP

Resources:
Perin, G; Bregolin Dytz, J.P.; Mohamed, N. The state of social protection for agri-food systems workers in West Africa. IPC-IG and FAO (forthcoming)
Sato, L., The state of social insurance for agricultural workers in the Near East and North Africa and challenges for expansion. Working Paper 189, 2021. Brasília: Brasília: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth. Available at https://ipcig.org/publication/....30007?language_conte
Sato, L; Mohamed, N. The role of social insurance schemes in addressing the risks faced by agricultural workers in the Middle East and North Africa. IPC-IG, FAO RNE and ILO ROAS (forthcoming)

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This session will explore the importance of communicating about transitional justice in facilitating a culture of change within societies that have experienced massive human rights violations. Using comparative examples, topics to be addressed will include: 1) the role of media in supporting sustainable transitional justice processes, the different stages in which media plays a crucial role, and the importance of training media actors to communicate with the public on transitional justice as a catalyst for sustainable peace; 2) the work of journalists covering current transitional justice issues, such as Ukraine, Colombia, colonial crimes, and environmental crimes, that highlight the value of specialized and independent reporters and the challenges of bringing transitional justice expertise to a larger audience to explain both the political relevance and technical nature of the issues; and 3) art as a means of engaging youth in Tunisia and Lebanon, including through art and photo contests as well as oral history projects, intergenerational dialogue, and workshops on collecting testimonies.

Speakers: Thierry Cruvellier, Nour El Bejjani Noureddine, Judie Kaberia

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Eric Osiakwan is an Entrepreneur and Investor with 15 years of ICT industry leadership across Africa and the world. He has worked in 32 African countries setting up ISPs, ISPAs, IXPs and high-tech startups. Some of these companies and organizations are Angel Africa, Angel Fair Africa , Ghana Cyber City, PenPlusBytes, African Elections Portal, FOSSFA, WABco, GISPA, AfrISPA, GNVC, Internet Research, InHand, Ghana Connect. He serves on the board of Farmerline, Forhey, Teranga Solutions, Siqueries, Amp.it, SameLogic, eCampus, Bisa App and Wanjo Foods, - some of which are his investments.

He was part of the team that built the TEAMS submarine cable in East Africa and an ICT Consultant for the WorldBank, Soros Foundations, UNDP, USAID, USDoJ, USDoS as well as African governments and private firms.
He authored "The KINGS of Africa Digital Economy", co-authored the “Open Access Model”, “Negotiating the Net” – the politics of Internet Diffusion in Africa and “The Internet in Ghana” with the Mosaic Group. He was invited to contribute ideas to Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Commission for Africa.

Eric is a Poptech, TED, Stanford, and MIT Fellow. He was previously a Berkman Klein Fellow at Harvard University.

Find out more about this event here:
https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2017/02/Osiakwan

Vaccination has saved more lives than any other medical advancement, but traditional methods of vaccine delivery are fast becoming outdated in our technological age. Dr Christine Rollier, James Martin Fellow on the Oxford Martin Programme on Vaccines will look at new methods of vaccine delivery technology that promise cheaper, safer and pain free implementation. Christine will be joined by Dr Pawan Dulal, a researcher in the Vaccine Delivery Technologies group at the Jenner Institute, who is developing a technology to render vaccines thermo-stable, a process that could revolutionise the global distribution of vaccine technology.

Oxford Martin School,
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Vienna Mbagaya, Founder of The Invisible Neighbors (www.theinvisibleneighbors.com) guest hosts Impact Africa with guest Laetitia Mulamula, Vice President, Eastern Africa Diaspora Business Council (EADBC) (http://www.eadiaspora.org/)

August 3, 2014

To launch the 2020 International Day for Universal Access to Information and its themes, UNESCO will organize a high-level online panel, “Access to Information – Saving lives, Building Trust, Bringing Hope!,” set to take place online at 2:00 p.m. (CEST) on 28 September. The online panel will open with statements from the UNESCO representative; it will also include statements made by representatives of the Liberian and Uzbek governments on the importance of the day, as well as interventions from our UN partners, followed by Open Talks session. More info: https://en.unesco.org/commemor....ations/accesstoinfor #AccessToInfo #RightToKnow #UNESCO

Join the GDP Center and distinguished BU alumni for our Open House Thursday, October 22 9:15-10:30 AM EST for an expert discussion on the state of the outbreak and recovery in Latin America and Africa and to learn about the GDP Center’s agenda for the coming year.

Panelists:

- Kevin P. Gallagher - Professor, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University; Director, Global Development Policy Center
- Ana Maria Carrasquilla-Barrera - CEO, Development Bank of Latin America, Asset Management Corp (CAF-AM); Alumna – Boston University School of Law
- Lamin G. Barrow - Director, Joint Secretariat Support Office for the African Union Commission, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the African Development Bank; Alum – Boston University

About this event: http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/events..../the-changing-face-o
Angèle Mendy presents her paper 'Dynamics of internal mobility of nurses in the Gambian health system' as part of the parallel session 'High-skilled migration' on Day 2 of the conference The Changing Face of Global Mobility: Celebrating 10 Years of the International Migration Institute, held at the University of Oxford from 13-15 January 2016.

This online event on Tuesday, 27 July examined the range of issues LDCs have to deal with in their efforts to build back better.

COVID-19 has spread quickly across the globe, shaking the world to its core. The world economy has been severely impacted, forcing governments to reconsider short- and long-term responses – both domestic and international – to the impacts. Governments are urgently looking into fiscal stimulus measures to get virus-struck economies on stable ground.

The full extent of the long-term impact on the economy is yet to unfold in the coming months and years, but the least developed countries (LDCs) will be the least able to cope with the impact. They are already challenged by multiple urgent priorities that require undivided financial and technical resources.

The panel of experts discussed multifaceted responses to climate impacts which are exacerbated by COVID-19, exploring questions and identifying options that can inform both policymaking and grassroots action.

Speakers were Sonam P Wangdi, chair of the LDC Group of the UNFCCC;
Isatou F. Camara, principal development planner in the directorate of development planning of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, The Gambia; Andrew Norton, director of IIED; Clare Shakya, director of IIED’s Climate Change research group; Anna Schulz, principal researcher and head of global climate law policy and governance programme in IIED's Climate Change research group; Sejal Patel, researcher in IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets and Climate Change research groups; Ritu Bharadwaj, senior researcher in the climate governance and finance team in IIED's Climate Change research group; Kevin Johnstone, researcher in IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets research group; Xiaoting Hou-Jones, senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group.

More information: https://www.iied.org/understan....ding-challenges-face

This event, co-hosted by The Five Foundation and UNFPA's London Office celebrates the power of grassroots activism and strengthening partnerships to reach our common goal of ending female genital mutilation (FGM) by 2030. The event includes remarks by the UK Minister for Africa, James Duddridge, UNFPA Deputy Executive Director, Diene Keita, and a conversation with grassroots activists and global coordinators working together to end FGM, hosted by actor and activist Pearl Mackie.

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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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Africa is the world's largest continent, with 50 countries, and includes many of the worlds fastest-developing economies. While most are still in the early stages of developing comprehensive electrical and electronic product requirements, all have frequency spectrum regulatory agencies, with required compliance criteria for wireless and telecom communications devices. This presentation is designed to help understand these requirements, along with information on the best practices for entering these markets.

Just by looking at social media and news coverage in countries like Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, it would be safe to assume that China-Africa ties are in serious trouble. The prevailing narrative in many countries is one where Africa is increasingly victimized by China through debt, labor abuse and outright discrimination among other problems.

But that's only part of the story.

A different narrative showcases how China's political ties with African governments have never been stronger. The Chinese are providing desperately needed relief to struggling African states through debt relief, COVID-19 supplies and the promise of being among the first to access a C19 vaccine when it's available.

The fact is that significant portions of both these are true, making it very difficult to understand the current state of China-Africa relations.

Hangwei Li, an award-winning journalist and PhD candidate at the University of London, and Johannesburg-based attorney and China-Africa analyst Jacqueline Muna Musiitwa tackled this challenge in a new article published by the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. Hangwei an Jacqueline join Eric and Cobus to discuss the competing agendas that complicate public perceptions of the Chinese in Africa.

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It's been more than a year since the Covid-19 pandemic began - a devastating disease that emerged from interactions between humans and wildlife. At the same time, the pandemic has presented unique threats to wildlife across East Africa, as local poaching has increased and tourism has dropped - an industry that largely funds conservation.

In the past year, what have we learned in terms of wildlife conservation, protection of biodiversity and natural habitats, and a One Health approach to conservation? How can we prevent another pandemic from emerging - and how should the media take a critical role in forecasting threats before they become crises? How was wildlife trafficking and conservation affected in East Africa, and what can we do to better protect wildlife going forward?

During this event on 24th June 2021, InfoNile also launched our new investigation The Pandemic Poachers, a cross-border data journalism project that looks at how Covid-19 impacted wildlife trafficking and conservation in the region: https://infonile.org/en/wildlife-conservation/

Speakers:
-Bashir Hangi, Communications Manager, Uganda Wildlife Authority
-Dr. Anthony Collins, Director, Baboon Research, Gombe Stream Research Centre, Tanzania
-Dorcas Wangira, Citizen TV Journalist, Kenya
-Prosper Kwigize, Mpanga Radio Journalist and DW Tanzania Correspondent
-Annika McGinnis and Fredrick Mugira, InfoNile/Water Journalists Africa

Moderator: Sarah Mawerere, UBC Journalist

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