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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Between elite power and social mobilisation in Nigeria
By Bolaji Ogunfemi ‘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 andContinue reading “Between elite power and social mobilisation in Nigeria”
New directions in social policy: lessons from and for Nigeria
By Bolaji Ogunfemi 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 pricesContinue 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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