Browsing: Africas

Africa’s Great Green Wall is entering a new phase as governments and development partners look beyond individual restoration projects and work toward a continent-wide investment platform capable of rebuilding degraded landscapes, creating jobs and strengthening communities against climate shocks. At COP-17 of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification in Ulaanbaatar, the African Development Bank committed…

Across sub-Saharan Africa, welfare does not begin and end with government programmes. Families, savings groups, burial societies, labour-sharing networks, women’s organisations, religious institutions and customary systems routinely help people navigate illness, unemployment, bereavement, financial stress and other shocks. However, much of this architecture remains peripheral to formal social-policy design, even as formal social protection reaches…