Young graffiti artists painted the outside wall of the UN House in Ulaanbataar, Mongolia, in support of the Sustainable Development Goals this month. Each unique art piece represents the artist’s interpretation of one of the 17 goals. More info available here from the UN in Mongolia: https://unitednationsinmongolia.exposure.co/un-mongolia-launches-urban-art-on-sdgs Photo: UN Mongolia Monday August 28th, 2017|News
With global warming expected to significantly impact future yields in countries located closer to the equator, the United Nations agriculture agency is calling on Asia-Pacific economies to take a leading role in adaptation and mitigation. “Many APEC [Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation] economies have already felt the full force of agricultural losses from natural disasters in recent years, with the vast majority of these being climate related,” said Kundhavi Kadiresan, Assistant Director-General and FAO Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific. Geographically, the negative impact of climate change on agricultural output could result in lower yields of rice, wheat, corn and soybeans in countries...
By Freedom House Washington – August 25, 2017 — In response to a court in Baku sentencing one of Azerbaijan’s most prominent independent journalists, Mehman Aliyev, to three months pre-trial detention before being tried for alleged “abuse of power” and on other charges, Freedom House issued the following statement: “The charges against Mehman Aliyev and now his pre-trial detention are part of Azerbaijan’s effort to silence independent journalism and all critical voices,” said Marc Behrendt, director of Eurasia programs at Freedom House. “Mehman Aliyev directs the Turan news agency, the country’s last remaining independent news agency, which has announced it has no...
By Media Contact: Obi Emekekwue (oemekekwue@afreximbank.com; Tel. +202-2456-4238) Cairo, 25 August 2017: – The African Export-Import Bank’s (Afreximbank) has invited African banking and trade finance professionals to the 2017 edition of its annual Structured Trade Finance Seminar and Workshops scheduled to take place from 6 to 9 November in Sal, Cape Verde. The four-day event, expected to attract some 200 participants from banks and other financial institutions across Africa, is aimed at strengthening the capacity of Afreximbank’s stakeholders in understanding international trade and trade-related project financing issues. It is being organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance of Cape...
Zambian Breweries celebrates the second anniversary of its Manja Pamodzi project. Minister of Water Development Sanitation and Environmental Protection Hon. Lloyd Kaziya with outgoing Zambian Breweries Country Director Annabelle Degroot with and in-coming Country Director Jose Daniel Moran By Gillian Langmead at Langmead & Baker Ltd +260 979 060705 info@langmead.com As Manja Pamodzi celebrates two years LUSAKA, ZAMBIA – Government has commended Zambian Breweries’ Manja Pamodzi project for creating employment and helping reduce the disease burden by keeping the environment clean in the areas where it is operating. Vice President Inonge Wina, during the second Manja Pamodzi anniversary celebrations held at Southern Sun...
Home Our Mission About us Programmes Advocacy Grants News & Blog Home | Programmes | Making Ghanaian Girls Great! Making Ghanaian Girls Great! Making Ghanaian Girls Great! (MGCubed) Background Making Ghanaian Girls Great! (MGCubed) is Ghana’s first interactive distance-learning project. The Project has impacted over 10, 000 marginalized girls and boys in 72 schools, within two regions in Ghana (Volta and Greater Accra) by providing them with an enhanced quality of education to improve their lives and transform their future. MGCubed aims at addressing the challenges of teacher quality, teacher absenteeism, and poor student learning by equipping two classrooms in every school with solar-powered...
By Editorial | August 14th, 2017 During the 1980s and 90s – the lost decades of development for Sub-Sahara – African states implemented Structural Adjustment Programmes at the behest of the IMF and World Bank. The new millennium, however, witnessed a change of fortunes, marked by rising growth at an annual average of at least 5% during the period 2000-2015. This sustained growth was driven by increased demand for Africa’s primary commodities largely from emerging economies, especially China, as well as improved economic management. The 3 December 2011 edition of The Economist changed its ‘basket-case’ prognosis of the previous decade towards a positive outlook for...
Low-Cost, High-Impact Teacher Training The Varkey Foundation designed the ‘Instructional Leadership Programme’ a low-cost training, high impact programme that addresses the issue of teacher quality. The 5-day intensive face to face course, aimed at school principals and senior management team members, focuses on the skills required to improve pedagogy within the school and includes an embedded “train-the-trainer” course so principals can cascade their learning to teachers at their schools. Building on the success of the Instructional Leadership Programme, and to maximise the sustainability and embed the impact of our interventions, we have since broadened the scope of the project: Training...
By Tranica Gurcharan Media Release August 2017 Johannesburg – A high-level conference in Lusaka, Zambia, has focused on common symptoms in women and children. With a focus on heartburn and acid reflux in pregnancy and fever in children, Zambia’s first Healthcare for Women and Children Conference 2017 was staged at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Lusaka last week. Zambia, with the 4th-highest fertility rate in the world at 5.28 births per woman, also has an exceptionally young population, with around half of citizens under the age of 15, according to the 2013-14 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey (ZDHS). Malaria is a major...
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