The advancement of national climate adaptation strategies and revision of countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions in 2020 is an important opportunity to include coastal ecosystems in official climate change response policies.
Thirty-four years after leaving the AU, Morocco re-joined to cement its leadership prospects in Africa and secure its control over Western Sahara.
The mining sector, like many others, needs to adapt and align with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Africa Mining Vision.
Growing awareness of the negative environmental and social (E&S) externalities of large infrastructure projects has driven sustainability considerations to the top of infrastructure financing debates in developing countries.
Indirectly, SA could be hurt by a US-China trade war, not least because it increases global uncertainty.
The paper explores Botswana’s experience with multilateral development banks (MDBs) in financing infrastructure to identify key challenges and alternative financial mechanisms available to Botswana that may hinder greater lending by MDBs.
China’s decision to suspend presidential term limits is still reverberating around the world.
Multi-stakeholder Initiatives (MSIs) are voluntary partnerships between governments, civil society, and the private sector which seek to promote good governance by holding governments and corporations accountable to citizens.
This report examines three prominent Multi-stakeholder Initiatives (MSIs) – the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and Open Government Partnership (OGP) through the dual lenses of peer learning and peer pressure.
This report examines four African states (Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania), and their membership in three multi stakeholder initiatives: the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), and the Open Government Partnership (OGP).
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