Bank of Afica

Shame, teenage pregnancy and gender-based violence in Kenya

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INCLUDE Secretariat | 10-12-2018 | Opinion

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The research programme ‘New roles of CSOs for inclusive development’ investigates the assumptions, solutions and problems underlying the civil society policy framework ‘Dialogue & Dissent’ of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Currently, all the research groups are conducting the empirical part of their research. The ‘Assumptions blog’ provides insight into the fieldwork of the research […]

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Taking a leap of faith? Providing CBOs with manoeuvering space in the ODA system

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Frank van Kesteren | 07-12-2018 | News

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Official development assistance (ODA) can help civil society organizations (CSOs) find sources of funding of their activities. Yet, the procedures and requirements within this system can also prevent small community-based organizations (CBOs) from doing their day-to-day work, while CBOs operating outside the ODA system can sometimes respond to emergency situations more quickly and flexibly. Hence, […]

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Social safety nets in Africa: everywhere and growing, but going where?

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Kathleen Beegle | 05-12-2018 | Opinion

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Despite a fall in the rate of poverty in Africa (down from 54% in 1990 to 41% in 2015), there are more poor people than in 1990 because of rapid population growth. By 2015, half of the world’s extreme poor were in Africa—up from 25% in 2002. Statistics in the non-monetary poverty space echo these […]

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