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As we edge closer to the half of this quarter, we invite you to keep tabs with some of our engagements through our thematic programmes as we share with you our first edition of the SID Africa newsletter. In this edition we apply back-casting to highlight our engagements in 2024, and how these lay the foundation of our work and shape the year ahead.
Italy's Piano Mattei initiative promises partnership with Africa, but its top-down approach and historical echoes of colonialism raise doubts about its genuine commitment to equitable cooperation. Read the article by Arthur Muliro.
As part of the G2H2 Policy Debates, SID webinar on 23 Jan 2025 will explore overlooked aspects of the energy transition, emphasizing the essential steps for ensuring it is both sustainable and equitable, while also revealing the human health impacts of failing to act.
As part of the G2H2 Policy Debates, SID webinar on 22 Jan 2025 intends to shine a light on the WHO debates on the pandemic treaty, One Health and the fight against AMR, taking stock of the research work conducted in this area in past years.
If the recent events that unfolded in Kenya starting in June 2024 are anything to go by, the questions on how to engage, participate and call for accountability will be the crux of the African post-modern revolution. The youth are demanding a different future from the current crisis in governance and contemporary capitalism has ravaged to their nation and this starts taking shape towards a state of civil unrest.
The 2nd edition of the dialogue featured discussion on locating Africa’s engagement and input in the Summit of the Future and Pact for the Future. The need to understand the convergence of thought and expectations from the Pact and the chapters therein, with the session paying particular attention to the fourth chapter on Youth & Futures Generations.
On the 26th of April 2024, the first dialogue session was held themed “Who Ideates Africa’s Future?”. This session was first and foremost a reactivation of the NGFP African network around a potentially viable subject that would allow them to participate in shaping their continental future by applying foresight to not just ideate that future for Africa in theory, but to produce a treatise of their own that would help the member states of the Africa Union (AU) first, and later the UN, understand the necessity of building this theory of change from local and regional standpoint to realise an ideal future for Africa.
Dubbed as a ‘Finance COP’, this year’s conference was platformed to be the centre-stage of the governments establishing a new climate finance goal and mobilizing finance for climate change mitigation and adaptation. However, the situation was not entirely as straight-forward at the close of the extensive two weeks in Baku, it was apparent that the outcomes was extensively invoking a poignant precedence.