Social Impact and Community Resilience and Engagement during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Social impact and community resilience and engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic Olivia Joseph-Aluko Reinvent African Diaspora Network United Kingdom DOI: 10.47556/B.OUTLOOK2020.18.10 Purpose: COVID-19 has triggered a paradigm shift in all dimensions of society, with potentially severe negative impacts on global efforts towards sustainable development. Although the pandemic has affected all sectors of society regardless of […]
The future of Sudan after lifting the US sanctions
Saturday 28th October 2017 (14:00-17:00) University Square Stratford – London, United Kingdom Early this month (6 October 2017), the US government has lifted parts the sanctions against Sudan towards normalizing relations which was promoted by Sudan’s efforts to end conflicts within the country, allowing good access for humanitarian purposes as well as good cooperation with the […]
Review of the effects of insurgency on public health: the case of Borno state, North-east Nigeria, Dr. Ibrahim N. Mamadu, Zara W. Wudiri and Hyelni H. Mshelia
Ibrahim N. Mamadu Centre for Alternative Sustainable Livelihoods (CASELS) Nigeria Zara W. Wudiri Department of Community Medicine, University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital Nigeria Hyelni H. Mshelia Borno State Primary Healthcare Development Agency Nigeria Purpose: To analyse and highlight the effect of insurgency on healthcare outcomes in the developing world and its implications for future migratory […]
An analysis of the impact of financial literacy on entrepreneurship development in Africa, Habib Auwal Abubakar
Habib Auwal Abubakar Capacity Development Specialist Tunisia Purpose: As financial literacy is gaining momentum both in developed economies with sophisticated financial systems and developing countries with low levels of financial services, this research seeks to establish a formal relationship between financial literacy and access to finance and what impact both have for developing an entrepreneurship […]
The critical role of capacity building in achieving sustainable development in Africa, Prof. Allam Ahmed and Dr. Kobena Hanson
Prof. Allam Ahmed University of Sussex UK Email: allam.ahmed@sussex.ac.uk Dr. Kobena T. Hanson African Capacity Building Foundation Zimbabwe Email: k.hanson@acbf-pact.org DOI: 10.1108/20425945201100007 Abstract: Today, more so than ever before, the African Continent is confronted with many challenges on its path to sustained growth and development. There is no denying the fact that Africa needs to […]
The future of Africa is now! The critical role of capacity development, Dr. Frannie Léautier
Dr. Frannie A. Léautier African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) Zimbabwe Email: f.leautier@acbf-pact.org DOI: 10.1108/20425945201100008 Abstract: African countries experienced severe macroeconomic shocks in the 1980s, which put them on a reform path that has generated resilience visible in their ability to recover and even grow from the fiscal and economic crises of 2008-2009. Critical to the […]
The African capacity building foundation: rising to the challenge of capacity through a unique and innovative framework, W. Ofosu‐Amaah
W. Paatii Ofosu-Amaah African Development Bank Tunis Email: p.ofosu-amaah@afdb.org DOI: 10.1108/20425945201100009 Abstract: The birth of the African Capacity Building Foundation on February 9, 1991, was the culmination of intense efforts and groundbreaking commitment to capacity building in Africa by Africa Governors of the World Bank, the Bank itself and the cofounding Institutions – the African […]
Subverting, disenchanting and rationalizing STI systems for revealing modernity in Africa, Dr. Jacques Hamel
Dr. Jacques L. Hamel United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa Ethiopia Email: jachamel@gmail.com DOI: 10.1108/20425945201000014 Abstract: The paper provides a speculative reflection on the power of modern science, technology and innovation systems (STI) for revealing some distinctive style of modernity in Africa. The modernization of these systems, as the backbones of any mode […]
Energy investments and sustainable development in Africa, Prof. John Adams
Prof. John Adams School of Accounting and Economics Edinburgh Napier University, Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh UK Email: j.adams@napier.ac.uk DOI: 10.1108/20425945201000015 Abstract: There is no lack of energy sources in Africa – especially fossil fuels – however many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa continue to be plagued by energy shortages. This can seriously impede productivity particularly in SME’s […]
Introduction, Prof. Allam Ahmed and Dr. Gale Rigobert
Prof. Allam Ahmed Science and Technology Policy Research The Freeman Centre University of Sussex UK Email: allam.ahmed@sussex.ac.uk Dr. Gale T C Rigobert Institute of International Relations (IIR) The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Trinidad and Tobago West Indies Email: gale.rigobert@sta.uwi.edu The theme of this special issue of WJSTSD is “ICTs, Technological Change […]