‘Leave no one behind’ is the catchphrase of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. As development challenges become multifaceted and complex, societies get increasingly fractured with the continuous widening of the gap between the privileged and the rest. Inequality constitutes a threat to eradicating poverty, promotes elite capture, prevents building peaceful and prosperous societies, andContinue reading “Between elite power and social mobilisation in Nigeria”
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New directions in social policy: lessons from and for Nigeria
Social policy is a package of public interventions that aim to guarantee adequate and secure livelihoods, income and well-being, and that enable all individuals to strive for their own life goals. When the Structural Adjustment Programme introduced in 1986 was adopted and implemented by Nigeria at a time of depressed oil prices as social policyContinue reading “New directions in social policy: lessons from and for Nigeria”
Sub-Saharan Africa and achieving the SDG target for drinking water
Achieving universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all by 2030 is a target of the Sustainable Development Goals. Africa has been identified as being at risk of severe water scarcity. Nearly 400 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are denied even a basic drinking water supply. One of the main usesContinue reading “Sub-Saharan Africa and achieving the SDG target for drinking water”
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