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Rajiv Shah is the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development since 2009. In this role, he led more than 9,600 professionals and 80 missions around the world. One of his many accomplishments was managing the U.S. Government’s response in the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Now, he leads President Barak Obama’s “Feed the Future” initiative, which works with partner countries to develop their agriculture sectors and break the vicious cycle of poverty and hunger. He also led “USAID Forward,” an extensive set of changes to USAID’s business model that encourage a more strategic, focused, and results-oriented approach to maximize their impact. Before becoming a USAID Administrator, Shah served as undersecretary for research, education and economics, and as chief scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He is married with three children and lives in Washington, D.C
The Federation of Liberian Associations in Canada in Crisis Part 1 with Francis Hinnah and James Wright
Learn how Save the Children used mobile money for emergency assistance to 5,000 households affected by Ebola in Liberia.
Speakers share insights including the importance of the banking sector to mobile money humanitarian programs, consider the role of superagents and address changes in handset ownership and attitudes toward mobile money over the course of the program.
The responsibility to protect a country's territorial integrity does not extend only to the land, but also to a country's territorial waters. Thus, thinking strategically about securing territorial integrity must incorporate a strategy for maritime security. The failure to do so, which is uncommon, has been called "sea blindness".
Dr. Raymond Gilpin explains the profound importance of maritime security for all African countries (even the landlocked ones), discusses the colonial legacy of governance that resulted in neglect of the maritime domain, and walks through several key elements of a maritime security strategy.
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While COVID-19 has rapidly spread across the globe, Africa was among the last regions to be reached by the virus. The first case of COVID-19 was reported in Egypt on February 14, 2020. Today, COVID-19 is expanding across the continent with more than 7,000 reported cases as of the beginning of April (BBC Coronavirus in Africa). As in other parts of the world, the pandemic has upended the lives of millions on the continent, while raising questions about the continent’s ability to manage the pandemic and concerns about both the short and long-term socio-economic, peace, and security impacts of the virus. Please join us as we bring you perspectives from five African countries—South Africa, Libya, Ethiopia, the DRC, and Côte d'Ivoire—to learn how COVID-19 is unfolding in these countries, how the governments and the people are responding, and what the impact and challenges have been so far. We will also look ahead to COVID-19’s likely impact on peace, security, and development in these countries in the coming years.
A panel discussion on the mortality analysis, socio-political implications, and Western response to the Ebola crisis.
Leith Mullings (moderator) – The Graduate Center
Leith Mullings is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and immediate past president of the American Anthropological Association. Her research began in Africa on traditional medicine and religion in postcolonial Ghana, and her work in the U.S. addresses the consequences of class exploitation, racial discrimination, and gender subordination for the health and well-being of working- and middle-class women in Harlem.
Adia Benton – Brown University
An assistant professor of Anthropology, Adia Benton received her Ph.D. in social (medical) anthropology from Harvard University. She is a medical anthropologist specializing in HIV/AIDS, essential surgical care, race, post-conflict development, humanitarianism, and gender violence.
Kim Yi Dionne – Smith College
Kim Yi Dionne is an assistant professor of Government who teaches courses on African politics and ethnic politics. The substantive focus of her work is on the opinions of ordinary Africans toward interventions aimed at improving their condition and the relative success of such interventions. Her work has been published in African Affairs, Comparative Political Studies, and World Development.
Stéphane Helleringer – Columbia University
Stéphane Helleringer is an assistant professor of Public Health who has worked extensively in Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, and Malawi. Most recently, his work has focused on developing new approaches to evaluating the impact of large public health programs on mortality in sub-Saharan countries.
Chad Priest, JD, MSN, RN, assistant dean for Operations and Community Partnerships at Indiana University School of Nursing, spoke at the Duke University School of Nursing about resilience models in hospitals in the U.S. and Liberia and lessons learned from government-run John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Liberia for his lecture "Resilience, Challenges and Opportunities: Initial Hospital Management of Ebola Virus Disease in a Large Teaching Hospital in Monrovia." In this video he talks about how hospitals can become more agile in responding to epidemics and what nurses and nursing schools can do to help promote resilience in health care systems.
Ebola Outbreak in West Africa: Interview with Dr. Luis Gomes Sambo, WHO Regional Director for Africa
The application of appropriate preventive measures are key to bringing the Ebola epidemic under control, says Dr. Luis Gomes Sambo, Director of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional Office for Africa, where he leads technical cooperation efforts for 47 Member States.
Since the first case was reported in Guinea in March of this year, the virus has spread to Sierra Leone and Liberia, where 1,369 cases and 759 deaths had been reported as of 1 August 2014. The three countries had never previously experienced Ebola, a highly infectious disease that is spread by contact with the blood, bodily fluids, or tissue of infected animals or humans.
Sambo has been leading WHOs regional response to the outbreak, mobilizing experts and resources, and convening emergency meetings of the African countries’ ministers of health to discuss the situation and develop strategies at the national and regional levels to address the epidemic, the largest to affect Africa to date.
The Pan American Health Organization (APHO), WHO’s Regional Office for the Americas, interviewed Sambo during his recent visit to Washington, D.C., to attend the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit.
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Are you interested in learning how your organization can enhance their collaborative efforts? Watch our one hour webinar, Collaboration: Organization Cooperation and Technology to learn about collaboration strategies, examples and technologies. We first hear from Briggs Bomba about the collaborative efforts of the Zimbabwe Alliance. We then speak with TechSoup's Michael DeLong about online collaboration tools and resources.
Following the inauguration of a new President of the United States, the global community is watching for how America will enter into a new age of foreign policy and international relations, rebuilding old relationships and fortifying new ones. But what does a new U.S. President mean for African governments and the people who work in government?
On Wednesday, January 27, Emerging Public Leaders (EPL), which runs a fellowship program that recruits, trains, and supports the next generation of civil servants across Africa, hosted a discussion with Judd Devermont, director of the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), on the future of U.S.-Africa relations in the Biden administration, including an overview of issues facing the global public service community.
The conversation was led by Yawa Hansen-Quao, executive director of Emerging Public Leaders. She was recently named as one of 2020’s 100 Most Influential Young Africans and is an Amujae Fellow with the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Center for Women and Development.
On 06 July 2022, the EPI Foundation hosted a powerful film from northern Kenya, showing how drought is pushing Samburu pastoralists and elephants into conflict, and how we can mitigate this conflict.
Our four government speakers discussed these themes with other examples from their own countries in eastern and southern Africa.
Our film from northern Kenya was generously gifted by the Milgis Trust and edited by Michaela Brackenridge.
While COVID-19 has rapidly spread across the globe, Africa was among the last regions to be reached by the virus. The first case of COVID-19 was reported in Egypt on February 14, 2020. Today, COVID-19 is expanding across the continent with more than 7,000 reported cases as of the beginning of April (BBC Coronavirus in Africa). As in other parts of the world, the pandemic has upended the lives of millions on the continent, while raising questions about the continent’s ability to manage the pandemic and concerns about both the short and long-term socio-economic, peace, and security impacts of the virus. Please join us as we bring you perspectives from five African countries—South Africa, Libya, Ethiopia, the DRC, and Côte d'Ivoire—to learn how COVID-19 is unfolding in these countries, how the governments and the people are responding, and what the impact and challenges have been so far. We will also look ahead to COVID-19’s likely impact on peace, security, and development in these countries in the coming years.
Chad Priest, JD, MSN, RN, assistant dean for Operations and Community Partnerships at Indiana University School of Nursing, spoke at the Duke University School of Nursing about resilience models in hospitals in the U.S. and Liberia and lessons learned from government-run John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Liberia for his lecture "Resilience, Challenges and Opportunities: Initial Hospital Management of Ebola Virus Disease in a Large Teaching Hospital in Monrovia." In this video he talks about how hospitals can become more agile in responding to epidemics and what nurses and nursing schools can do to help promote resilience in health care systems.
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A panel discussion on the mortality analysis, socio-political implications, and Western response to the Ebola crisis.
Leith Mullings (moderator) – The Graduate Center
Leith Mullings is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and immediate past president of the American Anthropological Association. Her research began in Africa on traditional medicine and religion in postcolonial Ghana, and her work in the U.S. addresses the consequences of class exploitation, racial discrimination, and gender subordination for the health and well-being of working- and middle-class women in Harlem.
Adia Benton – Brown University
An assistant professor of Anthropology, Adia Benton received her Ph.D. in social (medical) anthropology from Harvard University. She is a medical anthropologist specializing in HIV/AIDS, essential surgical care, race, post-conflict development, humanitarianism, and gender violence.
Kim Yi Dionne – Smith College
Kim Yi Dionne is an assistant professor of Government who teaches courses on African politics and ethnic politics. The substantive focus of her work is on the opinions of ordinary Africans toward interventions aimed at improving their condition and the relative success of such interventions. Her work has been published in African Affairs, Comparative Political Studies, and World Development.
Stéphane Helleringer – Columbia University
Stéphane Helleringer is an assistant professor of Public Health who has worked extensively in Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, and Malawi. Most recently, his work has focused on developing new approaches to evaluating the impact of large public health programs on mortality in sub-Saharan countries.
UN Women is hosting a high-level side event to highlight progress made on tackling gender-based violence in the context of COVID-19, and to activate the UN Secretary-General engagement strategy on gender-based violence. The event organized on the margins of the 75th United Nations General Assembly will also profile the Generation Equality Forum Action Coalition on Gender-Based Violence (one of the themes of the six Action Coalitions), with a strong, vibrant, and results-driven constituency of fifteen leaders from Member States, civil society, the private sector, philanthropies, and international organizations, and its potential to drive change and achieve concrete impact in the coming five years.
Participants at the meeting, including champion Member States, grassroots activists, civil society organizations, as well as young leaders, will also discuss collective responses, innovative partnerships and proven policies solutions to ending violence against women in a COVID-19 world, including invaluable support and adapted measures provided by the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women.
Participants include Mr. António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General; Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Women Executive Director; Ms. Henrietta H. Fore, UNICEF’s Executive Director, Baroness Liz Sugg, Minister for Foreign and Development Affairs and Special Envoy for Girls’ Education of the United Kingdom; Ms. Cecilia Chacón Castillo, Minister for Human Rights of Ecuador; Ms. Mereseini Vuniwaqa, Minister of Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation of Fiji; Ms. Jutta Urpilainen, European Commissioner in charge of international partnerships; Ms. Helena Dalli, European Commissioner in charge of Gender Equality; Ms. Elisabeth Moreno, Minister Delegate for Gender Equality, Diversity and Equal Opportunities of France; Ms. Martha Delgado Peralta, Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico; Ms. Ann Bernes, Ambassador for Gender Equality and Coordinator of Feminist Foreign Policy; Ms. Rachel Shebesh, Chief Administrative Secretary in the Ministry of Public Service and Gender of Kenya; Ms. Celine Bonnaire, Executive Director of the Kering Foundation; Ms. Nicolette Naylor, International Program Director, Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Justice of the Ford Foundation; Ms. Ghida Anani, founder and manager of ABAAD – Resource Centre for Gender Equality; Ms. Kalpana Viswanath, Co-Founder and CEO of Safetipin; Ms. Zahra Al Hilaly, Youth Affairs Council, Ms. Rashmi Singh, International Foundation for Crime Prevention and Victim Care, India.
Recent outbreaks such as Ebola and Measles have raised concerns regarding the spread of diseases worldwide within a short timeframe. In addition, crew and passengers are concerned about becoming infected during air travel. Apart from health implications, outbreaks could also have significant operational and economic repercussion.
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ICAO
Africa has long been seen as the final frontier of emerging markets—a continent desperately in need of large-scale infrastructure investments with a young, expanding population. Yet growth across sub-Saharan Africa has been below expectations in recent years, and countries from Nigeria to Angola continue to succumb too easily to boom-and-bust commodity cycles. Although investors present in Africa have a far more positive outlook on the region’s prospects than those who have never done business there, Africa continues to suffer from the perception that conflict and war are endemic, and that the risks to doing business outweigh the returns. How can the private sector manage the nuances of African markets? To what extent can security risks be managed and when do they become insurmountable? Which industries and sectors hold the most promise for international investors in the years to come?
