SDGs

Climate Resilience in Africa: Six Priorities for an Era of Rising Risk and Falling Aid

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”

Strategies for sustainable cities in Africa

The Sustainable Development Goals have increased conversations around how cities and towns can be planned and organised to fulfil their roles as drivers of sustainable development. Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable is the focus of goal seven. This topic is of crucial importance to Africa’s development efforts for some reasonsContinue reading “Strategies for sustainable cities in Africa”

Africa and measuring the sustainable development goals

Many African countries lack the capabilities to plan, manage and do the research required for successful formulation, implementation and evaluation of policy. Data from the continent is generally perceived as inaccurate, unreliable, untimely or inexistent. The reasons behind this are numerous. While statistics bureau exists in most countries, they are sometimes insufficiently funded. This conditionContinue reading “Africa and measuring the sustainable development goals”