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28/09/2020

What are benefits of using technology in agriculture?
is enabling stakeholders to collect agricultural and use that data to advise on how to boost their yields. is the backbone of most developing economies and employs a majority of the working age population in these countries. Find out more: https://buff.ly/2x5uaJI
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28/07/2020

The need to reform public administration is dire and attempts to reform public sectors are sweeping across Africa. Public sectors need to be more efficient, accountable, and transparent. This will enhance public trust. Learn more: https://buff.ly/2JYh2JR

04/06/2020

Food demand is growing, diets are shifting, and as weather patterns become increasingly unpredictable, so does a farmer’s harvest. Much of our diet is sustained by approximately 500 million smallholder farmers growing crops like rice and coffee in the developing world. If we are to stand a chance of feeding the world in the face of a changing climate, these farmers need to be part of the digital revolution. So how can we ensure they are included? Find out:

500 million smallholder farmers need access to technology - from robotic harvesting equipment, to AI-powered advice apps

04/06/2020

Epidemics can strike anywhere. But it’s often the weakest part of the health system, where people are not being reached by health services, is often where outbreaks grow unchecked. We can all be protected from outbreaks and pandemics only if every single person is covered by health services—which is the foundation of UHC. Read more:

Denial of health care is not only unjust, it is also a waste of human potential and a country’s human capital.

03/06/2020

With some delay COVID-19 has also hit the African continent and is expected to trigger the first recession in Sub-Saharan Africa in 25 years with a shock to many households. In a region where roughly 8 out of 10 people are engaged in low-wage informal employment and often just making ends meet, the livelihoods, incomes and well-being of many households, and their human capital, are at risk. Read more:

Across the world, governments are gearing up to respond to the socio-economic shock of COVID-19 (coronavirus). Early actions in countries hit hard by the pandemic range from large economic stimulus packages and the lowering of interest rates to social safety nets for millions of

03/06/2020

School re-opening is currently at the top of the agenda of Governments and Ministries of Education around the globe. It is also the major concern of students and their parents, teachers and other education personnel. Given the uncertainty over the nature and evolution of COVID-19, decisions are pending, flipping between concerns over health and safety, as thousands of people are effected every day, and concerns over learning loss and other risks entailed in prolonged school closures, especially for the most vulnerable segments of the population, as inequalities in learning and access to health and social services, thorough schools, breeds wider social inequalities. Read more:

Share this article School re-opening is currently at the top of the agenda of Governments and Ministries of Education around the globe. It is also the major concern of students and their parents, teachers and other education personnel. Given the uncertainty over the nature and evolution of COVID-19,...

02/06/2020

Several challenges have been identified when it comes to monitoring and tracking progress towards universal health coverage. One of the challenges is obtaining reliable data on an extensive set of health services coverage and financial protection pointers. Reliable data is critical since measuring performance relies on it. Exposing coverage inequities will go a long way in ensuring more efficient and impactful ways of attaining universal health coverage are implemented. Find out more:

Universal healthcare is United Nation’s sustainable goal number 3 and it seeks to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. Great strides have been made in reducing child mortality, improving maternal health and fighting HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. According to the...

02/06/2020

As COVID-19 ravages the world, the fight against HIV, TB and malaria is acutely at risk. That fight is not merely at risk of getting knocked off course – it can be derailed entirely. If health systems collapse, or treatment and prevention services are interrupted, the death toll from these three diseases (and others) will massively outweigh deaths from COVID-19 itself. Millions more lives will be lost. Read more:

As COVID-19 ravages the world, the fight against HIV, TB and malaria is acutely at risk. That fight is not merely at risk of getting knocked off course – it can be derailed entirely.

29/05/2020

By designing a monitoring strategy able to assess outcomes and impacts, you will succeed in proving to your donor that the implemented activities will have a positive, long-term effect in the community. Read more: https://buff.ly/2Qol81b

29/05/2020

Over 16 years of management consulting experience and a growing footprint in sub-Saharan Africa, over 24 countries and counting. Relevant and accurate reporting, the journey continues. Clink link to download our profile 👉 https://buff.ly/2zuNS33

29/05/2020

The global provision of schooling is facing unprecedented challenges as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. In the context of COVID-19 school closures, paper-based and digital distance education platforms have become essential to the continued provision of education for all. Without adequate information and communication technology (ICT) devices, internet/mobile network access, educational resources and teachers’ training, students simply cannot partake in distance education to continue on their learning trajectories. Read more:

Monitoring ICT use at home and at school

28/05/2020

Delays in obtaining pesticides, helicopters, and other vital supplies have set back efforts to combat East Africa’s worst desert locust outbreak in decades. And now a second generation of the pest is forming swarms just as a new crop season gets underway, threatening the livelihoods of millions of people. The problems began before COVID-19 restrictions took effect.

A second generation of the crop-eating insect is forming swarms just as a new planting season begins. Millions could go hungry.