Category: Sustainable Development

By Sherelle Folkes  Tel: +44 20 20 7638 6856 Email: Sherelle@BrandCommsGroup.com Overall fintech in Africa will grow from around US$ 200 million currently to US$ 3 billion by 2020 KIGALI, Rwanda, February 15, 2018/ — Millions more people in Africa now have access to financial systems thanks to cashless systems using digital technology, and more and more people are seeing the benefits of mobile banking, according to Ecobank (www.Ecobank.com), the leading independent pan-African banking group. Ecobank is the main sponsor at the Africa Tech summit currently taking place in Kigali, Rwanda. Today, Nshuti Lucy Mbabazi, Assistant Vice President, Push Payments for...

By Derrick Sinjela The National Biosafety Authority (NBA) a Zambian statutory body established through the Biosafety Act No. 10 of 2007, will hold a sensitization and awareness workshop in conjunction with the United Nations Environment –Global Environment Facility from the 20th to 21st February, 2018 at Twangale Park, for selected key stakeholders in order to establish the Biosafety Clearing House (BCH) as a fully functional and effective platform for implementation of the Cartagena protocol. According to National Biosafety Authority Communications Officer, Sandra Lombe-Mulowa the sensitization and awareness meeting aim is to consolidate and intensify cooperation toward achieving common goals and...

By Lewis Mwape – Executive Director Zambia Council for Social Development (ZCSD),  As developments Actors we have spent time to analyze many development tools, visions, agenda and plans. We have not asked a question on what could be the root cause of fragility of our development? What is the importance of a dynamic Curriculum Setting to building a sustainable and strong development Foundation? In the Zambian set up most Curriculum Specialists are subject Teachers in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, English Geography and other subjects. These are well trained friends locally and abroad. What is the problems then? Curriculum setting is political!...