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Afreximbank Invites Bankers to Structured Trade Finance Seminar in Cape Verde

Afreximbank Invites Bankers to Structured Trade Finance Seminar in Cape Verde

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...

GOVERNMENT COMMENDS MANJA PAMODZI FOR IMPROVING LIVES

GOVERNMENT COMMENDS MANJA PAMODZI FOR IMPROVING LIVES

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...

Making Ghanaian Girls Great!

Making Ghanaian Girls Great!

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...

Towards Democratic Developmental States in Southern Africa

Towards Democratic Developmental States in Southern Africa

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...

Varkey Foundation-Instructional Leadership Training, Uganda

Varkey Foundation-Instructional Leadership Training, Uganda

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...

Reckitt Benckiser (RB) to partner on health and hygiene initiatives in Zambia.

Reckitt Benckiser (RB) to partner on health and hygiene initiatives in Zambia.

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...

SanDance! And the Kuru Dance Festival: Promoting and Celebrating Indigenous Culture Thursday, Aug 10th, 2017

SanDance! And the Kuru Dance Festival: Promoting and Celebrating Indigenous Culture Thursday, Aug 10th, 2017

In the face of cultural and social erosion and erasure, the San continue to hold fast to the traditions, dances and ancient songs which form the core of their identity as a people. By Delme Cupido | August 10th, 2017 In 2016, the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Programme of OSISA, in collaboration with the Youth, Arts and Culture Initiative, provided a grant to renowned filmmaker to document the 2017 Kuru Dance Festival. The Kuru Dance Festival is the largest gathering of San communities in southern Africa and has played a critical role in preserving and revitalising a culture that continues to be under threat in an,...

Zambian Chiefs ‘Girls Education’ Champions cheer ZOCS’s Cleopatra Chona-Muma

Zambian Chiefs ‘Girls Education’ Champions cheer ZOCS’s Cleopatra Chona-Muma

By Jessie Zimba in Lusaka, Zambia Zambia Open Community Schools (ZOCS) Programme and Advocacy Manager Cleopatra Chona-Muma has commended Zambian Chiefs for their active participation in championing girls’ education in their villages. Mrs. Muma disclosed that Chief Singani of the Southern Province has set up measures in his village to promote educating children especially the girl child. Mrs. Muma expressed delight following positive participation in interventions spearheaded through ZOCS Programme championing girls education in Zambia. Said an appreciative Mrs. Muma:“If you visit Chief Singani, you will see how households have been sensitized and those that have married out young girls...

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