South Africans like to repeat a saying that is supposed to encompass the country’s philosophy and behaviour: ‘Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu’, or a person is a person through other people.
Distributed ledger technologies (DLT) enable the creation of digital databases stored across multiple locations.
It has taken South Africa 25 years to put its foot down on the display of the apartheid flag.
African countries safeguard many of the world’s planetary boundaries and healthy ecosystems. However, despite the recognition of their value, the modification and degradation of crucial habitats such as coral reefs, mangrove forests and coastal wetlands continue unabated.
Engagement with Africa requires facing up to inequalities that erode growth and development. We call for a harmonised approach for deeper, more fruitful cooperation between the G7 and this vast continent.
While the importance of marine and coastal ecosystems is increasingly recognised globally, Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) has not really gained widespread traction among all stakeholder groupings and in climate change policies, and is yet to be fully integrated.
The G20 sees its role as providing a rudder guiding the global economy through choppy seas.
Data on governance, like any other official statistics, are a public good and should be accessible to all. Otherwise, the true scale of violence, exclusion, and discrimination will remain hidden, and the potential of carefully collected information to improve life for ordinary citizens will not be fully realised.
In celebration of Women’s Month in August 2019, the Africa Portal is releasing a number of outputs as part of its thematic series for the year focused on ‘Women, Power and Policy Making’.
In January 2017 Namibia became the 37th state to join the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), the continent’s self-assessment tool promoting good governance.
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