Les 02, 03 et 04 Septembre 2019 s’est tenu à Dakar la réunion qui avait pour thème : «Remise en question des orthodoxies dans la pensée économique en Afrique. » Cette réunion, co-organisée par TrustAfrica et Institute for Economic Justice, appuyée par Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) a été rehaussée par la présence d’universitaires, de décideurs et d’activistes provenant de plusieurs pays africains.

On September 2, 3 and 4, 2019, a meeting was held in Dakar on the theme: "Challenging orthodoxies on economic thinking in Africa. The meeting, which was co-hosted by TrustAfrica and the Institute for Economic Justice and supported by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), was graced with the presence of academics, policy makers and activists from several African countries.

Cette étude exploratoire a ciblé trois régions à savoir, Tambacounda, Kolda et Kédougou. Tambacounda est une région située dans l’est du Sénégal. Son chef-lieu est la ville de Tambacounda. Elle est géographiquement la plus grande des 14 régions du Sénégal mais a une faible densité de population et son économie est faible comparée au reste du pays.

Les violences basées sur le genre (VBG) au Burkina Faso se produisent à un rythme accentué. Dans les cinq régions concernées par les enquêtes, la situation s’avère beaucoup plus préoccupante. Les données présentées dans ce document sont issues d’enquêtes menées dans les régions des Cascades, du Centre Nord, du Nord, du Plateau central et des Hauts Bassins.

Pendant longtemps, les questions des violences faites aux femmes ont été taboues dans nos sociétés qui, jusqu’à preuve du contraire, sont très conservatrices. Notons que les violences faites aux femmes sont permanentes et universelles.
Toute femme peut être victime de violence, peu importe son âge, sa race, son origine ethnique, son éducation, son identité culturelle, sa situation socioéconomique, sa profession, sa religion, son orientation sexuelle, ses aptitudes physiques ou mentales, ou sa personnalité.

Nous, parlementaires, universitaires et représentants d’organisations de défense des droits de l’homme d’Afrique, d’Asie, des Amériques et d’Europe, nous sommes réunis à Dakar (Sénégal) du 9 au 11 avril 2019, lors de la Consultation portant sur  « Le Partenariat mondial et action conjointe dans la lutte contre la Discrimination fondée sur le Travail, l’Ascendance,  l’Intouchabilité, des formes contemporaines d’esclavage et des formes analogues de Discrimination » et nous appelons les États et l’ONU à adopter des mesures visant à mettre fin à la discrimination fondée sur le Travail, l’Ascendance, l’Intouchabilité, des croyances sociétales, des formes analogues de discrimination y compris des formes contemporaines d’esclavage.

We parliamentarians, academics and representatives of human rights organizations from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe have come together in Dakar, Senegal on 9 to 11 April 2019, at the Consultation titled “Global Partnership and Joint Action in Addressing Discrimination based on Work and Descent, Untouchability, Contemporary Forms of Slavery and Analogous Forms of Discrimination” we are calling on States and the United Nations to adopt, measures toward ending discrimination based on Work and Descent, Untouchability, socio-cultural beliefs, and Analogous Forms of Discrimination including Contemporary Forms of Slavery...

According to the Executive Director of the United Nation Environment Program, Mr. Erik Solheim, “pollutionis a universal challenge that threatens wildlife, devastates ecosystems and kills millions of people.” Air pollution kills more than 6 million people every year, most of these deaths occurring in Africa and Asia. The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) says air pollution is fundamentally altering our climate.

with profound impact on the health and sustainability of our planet. The agency describes air pollution as “the biggest environmental health risk of our time.”
Whilst a disproportionate number of the mortality rate arising from air pollution occurs in Africa and Asia, there has been no concerted effort by individuals, groups, stakeholders and governments in these two acutely impacted continents to conduct comprehensive studies on the problem. Many of the statistics provided by international agencies are usually extrapolations from studies conducted in developed countries. Therefore, conducting and evaluating epidemiological studies in areas worst hit by air pollution in Africa should be a priority to our governments and international institutions. In many developing countries, air pollution is seen as
a necessary evil by governments in their pursuit of development. Many developing countries are unwilling to invest resources in monitoring air pollution or put in place regulations that would reduce air pollution.

We the participants, in the Tanzania Higher Education Summit on Enhancing the Contribution of Higher Education in the Industrialization Process of Tanzania, gathered in Dar es Salaam on 21st -22nd November, 2016 confirm our commitment to the objective of developing strategies that will enable the Tanzania Higher Education Sub-sector to produce competent graduates and research outputs which will significantly contribute to the process of industrialization in Tanzania.

The Conference on Promoting International Co-operation in TCombating Illicit Financial Flows and Enhancing Asset Recovery to Foster Sustainable Development was held in Abuja, Nigeria from 5 – 7 June, 2017. The Conference was organized under the auspices of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The conference was attended by the Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, S.A.N., Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, S.A.N., Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee, Prof Itse Sagay, S.A.N., members of the Diplomatic Corp, representatives of Ministries, Departments and Agencies, members and staff of PACAC, officials of the Federal Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, representatives of international organizations, delegates and speakers from other African countries, Asia, Europe United States of America, development partners, representatives from the private sector, members of the academia, Civil Society Organizations and the media.

The Conference on Promoting International Co-operation in TCombating Illicit Financial Flows and Enhancing Asset Recovery to Foster Sustainable Development was held in Abuja, Nigeria from 5 – 7 June, 2017. The Conference was organized under the auspices of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The conference was attended by the Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, S.A.N., Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, S.A.N., Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee, Prof Itse Sagay, S.A.N., members of the Diplomatic Corp, representatives of Ministries, Departments and Agencies, members and staff of PACAC, officials of the Federal Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, representatives of international organizations, delegates and speakers from other African countries, Asia, Europe United States of America, development partners, representatives from the private sector, members of the academia, Civil Society Organizations and the media.

We, the participants, in the Nigeria Higher Education Summit on Exploiting Diversity, Differentiation, and Quality Assurance in Revitalising the Nigerian Higher Education System, gathered in Abuja, Nigeria on November 21-23, 2016, affirm our commitment to the objective of creating a national multi-stakeholders' platform to develop strategies for advancing the objectives of the African Union (AU) - adopted Declaration on African Higher Education through renewed commitment to promoting categorisation, legislation, service delivery and quality assurance, leveraging on ICT as driver of rapid and wider revitalisation and sustainable funding of higher education in Nigeria. In this connection, we enact the Nigerian Higher Education Charter hereunder set forth, and also Declare and Adopt the accompanying Action Plans for its actualization.

The reports summarizes the proceedings of a multinational convening organized under Trust Africa’s “Building an Advocacy Movement for Equitable and Sustainable Agriculture in Africa” project held on 24 to 26 November 2014 under the theme “Strengthening smallholder agriculture in Africa: Prospects for mobilization and advocacy”. The convening brought together stakeholders, partners, and researchers, program staff from TrustAfrica and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  

The convening provided a timely platform to reinvigorate discussions on how to sustain the agenda for a more inclusive and sustainable agriculture amongst a broad base of non-state actors with government actors. The convening was also used to launch the discussion on the second phase of TrustAfrica’s advocacy actions and movement building for sustainable agriculture project. The convening took the approach of setting the broader context and understanding the characteristic challenges and gaps of smallholder agriculture. 

The Mano River Union was founded by three West African Heads of States (President Ahmed Sekou Toure of Guinea, President Siaka P. Stevens of Sierra Leone and President William Tolbert) with a focus to promote unity and fraternal ties among Member States. Later, Cote d’Ivoire was added as a member of the Mano River Union with the same objective. In spite of this, political violence, armed conflicts, widespread political violence and social instability have greatly hit Mano River Union countries for the past two decades. That has created a lot of unrest, instability, loss of lives and property and displaced individuals which consequently affected the social cohesion of people in the different countries of the MRU.

The conference brought together over one hundred participants drawn from Civil Society in Sierra Leone and the Mano River Union Liberia, but also taking keen interest in learning from the experiences from Kenya and Ghana. The expertise, rich experiences and lessons learnt and best practices that participants they brought to the space made for lively but critical in examining alternatives for promoting political tolerance, peace coexistence and good governance in sierra Leone and the region taking into consideration the urgency, importance and seriousness of the issue under discussion.

The year 2011 marks a watershed moment in the history of the Arab region; successive calls for change were launched across what had formerly been perceived as the most stagnant and change-resistant part of the world. This collective flux had been building up for decades and should be viewed as a continuum that has not yet born its desired fruits – the revolutionary fervor continues in 2013 as well as grievances that set the Arab Awakening in motion. A common denominator across those waves of mass citizen activism was the call for social justice, and the success or failure of the Arab transition seems to be heavily dependent on whether or not social justice is realized. In Yemen, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, the public discourse had calls for social justice embedded within the more emotionally-loaded term of karama or dignity. Lack of social justice was a key factor that ignited and continues to fuel those uprisings, and its realization has become the goal for those countries as they struggle their way through an uneasy transition.

In October 2012, TrustAfrica, the Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace Working Group and the African Grantmakers Network hosted a convening in collaboration with the Global Fund for Community Foundations and the Arab Foundations Forum. The aim of the convening was to explore a framework to develop and deepen work on social justice philanthropy in Africa and the Arab region. I, along with two others, was asked to prepare a reflection piece for the convening that would be used to provoke and stimulate a discussion amongst the participants. With that mandate in mind, I structured my original contribution around themes pertaining to dilemmas, tensions, observations and warnings in the context of defining and understanding social justice philanthropy in Africa. The following paper is an edited and revised version of that reflection piece.

“Social justice” and “structural change” which are central concerns for social justice philanthropy are contested concepts with multiple definitions and meanings1. The result is that the range of issues which are be the object of social justice philanthropy is broad and the methods for attaining social justice through structural change are varied. The multiplicity of issues are linked to the different understandings of what constitutes structural change and therefore the issues that need to be addressed to bring this about and the variety of ways in which the issues could be tackled. The focus of my discussion about the challenges of social justice philanthropy in Africa is located around a notion of social justice and structural change in respect of the political economy of Africa in the context corporate led globalization and the nature of the continent’s subordinate location in the global order.

ISTR’s 8th International Conference was unique as the Society joined with the EMES European Research Network to hold the 2nd European Conference at the same time. For the second time after the first joint European conference in Paris in 2005, a partnership was created to allow special emphasis on European debates and contributions related to social enterprises and the Third Sector while placing them in a worldwide context.