The way in which the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) has unfolded in Nigeria – a key regional player with Africa’s largest population – offers lessons and guidance to other participating APRM countries.
Community forests in Namibia are central to promoting sustainable and participatory forest governance and enhancing livelihoods in communal land areas.
Much of recent commentary on the World Trade Organization (WTO) has focused on the stalled Doha Development Round, the reasons for the impasse and proposals for its resolution.
Although South Africa is the only African permanent member of the G-20 group of major economies, the G-20 regularly invites the chair of the African Union (AU) and a representative of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) – usually the chair of the Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee – to attend its meetings.
Global experience in the last century demonstrated that it is possible for societies to move rapidly from poverty to prosperity. The past decade has seen growing hope that Africa may be on the cusp of emulating these experiences.
This paper reviews recent developments in the human rights due diligence concept. In doing so, it highlights the challenges of developing and applying human rights due diligence processes in mineral supply chains in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the broader Great Lakes region.
It is hoped that African countries will soon be signing a new free trade agreement that will take the continent one step closer to its goal of economic development.
Namibia is often cited as an example of an African country that has achieved relative success in managing its marine resources and promoting local ownership in the fisheries sector. This paper draws out key lessons from Namibia’s fisheries governance experience, highlighting not only successes but also a range of challenges facing the country.
Natural sand from estuary and coastal land is one of South Africa’s most valuable resources. However, there has recently been a drastic increase in uncontrolled and unauthorised sand mining activities in rivers, valleys and estuaries throughout the country.
For many years the Doha Round of negotiations of the World Trade Organization (WTO) had been in the doldrums, with little apparent prospect of success in its primary aim. In the wake of the ninth WTO ministerial conference in Bali in December 2013 there is renewed optimism that the WTO can deliver, and that something can still be made of the Round.
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