General Policy Documents (page 8)
Addressing fragility in Africa
The High-Level Panel on Fragile States in Africa was set up by the African Development Bank to review the likely sources of fragility in Africa in the coming years and to recommend how to handle them. The report (Feb 2014) “Ending Conflict and Building Peace in Africa: A Call to Action” points to several issues […]
Pastoralism marks a success in EU policy
On 15 September 2011 the European Parliament adopted a resolution on famine in East Africa. The resolution calls upon the Commission to better integrate pastoralists into EU development policies. The resolution, among other things, states that pastoralists ensure an important part of economic activity in the region and that they need proper assistance and policies […]
Pastoralism, policies and practice in the Horn and East Africa
by Sar Shadrack Omondi & Michael Ochieng Odhiambo, RECONCILE This publication forms one of a series of six reports prepared under the ECHO-funded project on ‘Reducing the vulnerability of pastoral communities through policy and practice change in the Horn and East Africa’. The aim of the project is to raise awareness among planners and policymakers about […]
Why De Soto’s land-tenure ideas of formalized property rights fail to benefit Africa’s poor
by Marcel Rutten, African Studies Centre The World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development noted in 1989 that “land availability was not a major problem in the context of most African countries” (WCARRD 1998: 17). Since then, however, some of the continent’s most serious conflicts (e.g. in Rwanda and Ivory Coast) have been linked to problems related to land availability […]
ASC: Ignoring another Inconvenient truth? Managing Africa’s water crisis
By: MARCEL RUTTEN AND MOSES MWANGI. “Among the many things I learnt as a president was the centrality of water in the social, political and economic affairs of the country, the continent and the world.” (Nelson Mandela) Water is a basic need and an important catalyst for accelerating socio-economic development in semi-arid areas. Good management […]