By Bolaji Ogunfemi Between 2005 and 2024, climate-related disasters disrupted the schooling of 130 million children in Eastern and Southern Africa and caused US$1.3 billion in direct damage to education infrastructure. UNICEF and Dalberg put the resulting loss in lifetime earnings at up to US$140 billion, rising towards US$380 billion by 2050 if nothing changes.Continue reading “Climate Resilience in Africa: Six Priorities for an Era of Rising Risk and Falling Aid”
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Sanitation security model: importance, explanation and uses
Bolaji Ogunfemi Sanitation is one of the most intractable development challenges of the twenty-first century. It has garnered greater attention from the UN, development actors, policymakers, national governments and donors since the declaration of the Millennium Development Goals in 2000. With the launching of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015, rhetoric on sanitationContinue reading “Sanitation security model: importance, explanation and uses”
Experience and reflection on sanitation and human security in South Sudan
Bolaji Ogunfemi It was the afternoon of Tuesday 4th of July, 2017, different thoughts ran through my head as I was approaching departure lounge of Heathrow Airport Terminal 4 to check in for my flight to Nairobi. I was travelling to Juba, South Sudan for the fieldwork of my research titled- Sanitation and Human SecurityContinue reading “Experience and reflection on sanitation and human security in South Sudan”
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