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THE NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT (NEPAD): INITIATIVES AND CHALLENGES

The 37th summit of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) now African Union (AU) held in July, 2001 formally adopted the New Partnership for Africa’s Development strategic framework development to develop an integrated socio-economic development framework that would guarantee Africa’s renewal. The NEPAD founding document makes it very clear that it is national government and Regional Economic Communities (RECs) that must drive the socio-economic renewal agenda. It embodied the principle of no peace without development and no development without peace, that is, if there is no development in a continent, there could be no peace and a continent cannot witness development without relative peace in the continent. NEPAD’s development strategy made security a priority. The writer relies on published and unpublished materials like text books, articles in journals, Newspapers, Charters/Acts of some National and International Organisations, Constitutions of some African countries and internet facilities. NEPAD subsequent evolution however revealed a serious disconnection between its focus on development and its peace and security. It is on this backdrop that this paper traced the several developmental plans couched out by various African leaders that eventually manifested into the present day “The New Partnership for Africa’s development.” The paper further examined the long term, short and medium term objectives of NEPAD and mechanisms through which these objectives could be enhanced. Effort is equally made to discuss the concept of development, achievements and failure of NEPAD in area of Sustainable development, challenges of development in Africa and ways of accomplishing development through the programmes.

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  • Journal IconUganda Pentecostal University Journal of Sustainable Development
  • Publication Date IconApr 17, 2025
  • Author Icon Ronald Ampulira + 1
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Addressing the Impact of Environmental Displacements of Persons in Africa by Operationalizing Sustainable Development Goals and African Agenda 2063

Internal displacement due to environmental disasters has become a major humanitarian challenge in Africa, disproportionately affecting vulnerable groups such as women, children, and the elderly. Despite efforts like the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and adherence to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the continent continues to face rising environmental challenges, raising questions about whether these displacements result from a failure to heed environmental warnings and whether development should be approached from a home-grown perspective. African Agenda 2063 and the SDGs now include forced displacement as key targets and indicators, emphasizing a comprehensive approach that extends beyond humanitarian aid to focus on development. This paper explores whether an intentional Afrocentric development plan, alongside the operationalization of the SDGs and Agenda 2063, can effectively mitigate environmentally induced internal displacement in Africa.

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  • Journal IconJournal of Environmental Law & Policy
  • Publication Date IconApr 14, 2025
  • Author Icon Ijeoma Anozie + 2
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Peace and Conflict Resolution in East Africa and the Horn of Africa: How Efficient Does the African Union (AU) and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) Achieve these Aims?

Wars and armed conflict continue to be a consistent impediment to the growth and development of warring states and bring with them untold human suffering and much destruction in their wake. This is also true for wars in Africa including the five major Civil wars in Africa being, the Nigerian Civil War (Biafra War) (1967), the Somali Civil War (1991), the Rwandan Genocide (1994), the Second Congo War (considered “Africa’s World War”) (1998-2003), the Sudanese Civil War (1955-1972), (1983-2005) (2023-present), and the Eritrean-Ethiopian War (1998). Given the devastating effects of war, the early detection, prevention and mitigation of such conflict as well as post-conflict reconstruction is a major concern for governments and international actors, including the African Union and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). The importance of peace building and conflict resolution is therefore amply recognized across the regional and international spectra, hence its incorporation into global agencies and regional agencies including the World Bank and the United Nations, and regionally through the African Union and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). The African Union, being the umbrella body that encompasses 55 African countries into its membership divided into five regions being Central Africa region, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Southern Africa and Western Africa, holds a large presence in matters African politics, and given its expansive reach has partnered with other organizations, majorly the United Nations (UN) with the view of partnering in peace building and conflict resolution. This has been achieved through putting in place several frameworks, including the Joint UN-AU Framework for Enhanced Partnership in Peace and Security, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2018), Agenda 2063, the AU Post-conflict Reconstruction and Development (PCRD) Policy framework, and the extended AU’s Silencing the Guns Initiative. ...

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  • Journal IconScholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Publication Date IconJan 17, 2025
  • Author Icon Florah Wairimu Gathii
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The New Partnership for Africa's Development: Differential Effect on the Development of Sub-Saharan Africa

African leaders have undertaken several initiatives to put the African continent back on the path of sustainable development. Among these initiatives, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) was established as a catalyst for alleviating the challenges of African development. This paper aims to evaluate the differential effect of NEPAD on the four objectives of NEPAD to establish if NEPAD has had significant differential effects within the years of NEPAD compared to the years before NEPAD. This will help to understand the priorities of NEPAD policy better. The paper relies on and expands existing research on NEPAD and African development. The research applies a mix of review and quantitative approaches. Proxy data on four of NEPAD's target variables of development were collected from the World Bank Economic Indicators. The data were analyzed using the paired sample t-test for means at an alpha level 0.05. The results of the study show mixed effects of NEPAD. On the one hand, two variables, namely GDP and women in tertiary education in sub-Saharan Africa over some twenty-one years of NEPAD, significantly surpasses the GDP and women in tertiary education in sub-Saharan Africa for twenty-one years before the inception of NEPAD at a p-value of less than 0.0001. On the other hand, another variable, namely merchandising export to higher-income countries from sub-Saharan Africa during the years of NEPAD, is significantly lower than merchandising export before the inception of NEPAD at a p-value of less than 0.0001. In addition, CO2 emissions are found to be significantly lower in the years before the inception of NEPAD than during the period of NEPAD at a p-value of less than 0.0001. These results provide insight for improved public administration policies to bolster merchandising exports. Therefore, this paper is an academic case study on sub-Saharan Africa's economic growth that offers a new agenda for future researchers.

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  • Journal IconOblik i finansi
  • Publication Date IconJan 1, 2025
  • Author Icon Collins C Ngwakwe + 1
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The New Initiative for Africa's Development: A Study in Concept and Challenges

In light of the poverty, underdevelopment, and lack of progress that the African continent is experiencing, its leaders have attempted to find solutions to its economic problems by adopting development policies based on partnership and cooperation. This has led them to reorder their priorities and set developmental goals aimed at advancing Africa. The New Partnership for Africa’s Development, known as NEPAD, was launched in October 2001 with the goal of eradicating the social and economic underdevelopment afflicting African countries. NEPAD sought to develop a comprehensive and consensual development project within Africa, and worked on establishing an African model of good governance rooted in moderate liberalism, combining the public and private sectors, and activating the role of civil society. Despite achieving some positive results since its inception, NEPAD has faced a number of challenges that have hindered the full realization of its goals. Additionally, its reliance on external direction and support has undermined its ability to depend on itself and its own resources to solve its problems.

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  • Journal IconScience, Education and Innovations in the Context of Modern Problems
  • Publication Date IconApr 1, 2024
  • Author Icon Naouel Boukabache
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‘Nothing has changed, South Africa’s sub-imperialist role has been reinforced’: Samir Amin’s durable critique of apartheid/post-apartheid political economy

ABSTRACT Samir Amin’s critiques of both apartheid-era and post-apartheid political economy contributed to his scathing view of the crucial ‘semi-peripheral’ layer of the world system, a perspective typically ignored in binary formulations of Global North and Global South. Amin’s 1977 article ‘The future of South Africa’ was among his first statements of how, using that era’s dependency theory language, ‘South African capital requires an outward policy of expansionism, so that ultimately, internal colonialism becomes coterminous with sub-imperialism’. Amin also labeled post-apartheid South Africa sub-imperialist because of the domination of ‘monopoly capital’ in the extractive-industry circuits (depleting what Marx called ‘free gifts of nature’) and the below-survival-level wages that have long shaped the economic structure. Two other coterminous factors were Pretoria’s imposition of continent-wide neoliberalism through the New Partnership for Africa’s Development and the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa BRICS network – both of which proved incapable of transcending neoliberal economic policies insisted upon by contemporary imperialism. Following the BRICS 2023 Sandton summit’s elite failure to advance de-dollarisation or other ‘delinking’ strategies, Amin would nod, knowingly, when hearing the term ‘sub-imperial’ to describe the bloc – and look for inspiration instead to successes of grassroots campaigners.

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  • Journal IconPolitikon
  • Publication Date IconOct 2, 2023
  • Author Icon Patrick Bond
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Influence of Geo-Technologies Integration on the Learning of Geography among Public Secondary Schools

Technology integration has become critical globally in pursuit of transforming education. In Siaya County, a persistent dismal mean of scores in Geography subjects among public secondary schools from 2016-2022 at Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examination has been blamed on the learning approaches. The data from the seven sub-counties indicated that very little learning occurred. Further, no known study has addressed rote learning in Geography using an explanatory research design about Siaya County. The study sought the influence of integrating geo-technologies on learning in Geography among public secondary schools in Siaya County. This study focused on Geo-technology integration influencing learning among public secondary schools in Siaya County, Kenya. The objective that guided this study was to explore the influence of a geo-technology integrated classroom environment on learning Geography among public secondary schools in Siaya County, Kenya. The study sought to answer the question; during 2016-2022, how did the integration of geo-technology in the classroom environment influence the learning of Geography in public Secondary Schools in Siaya County? The study adopted interviews, questionnaires, and observational checklists to collect data. The study employed social cognitive constructivism theory to envision effective learning. The study sampled 102 respondents from 262 public secondary schools based on Krejcie and Morgan’s table. The choice of Siaya County was based on the fact that it is the only county in the larger Nyanza where technology integration was piloted by New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) for quality learning. This study employed a mixed method and explanatory design to carry out the study. The study adopted interviews, questionnaires, and observational checklists to collect primary and secondary data.

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  • Journal IconInnovare Journal of Education
  • Publication Date IconSep 1, 2023
  • Author Icon Luke Nato Wakhungu
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Post-Cold War International Relations and Foreign Policies in Africa: New Issues and New Challenges

Abstract This paper argues that international relations in Africa have changedespecially in content since the abatement of the Cold War. These changeshave been accelerated by the pressures unleashed by the internationalenvironment, including the reality of Africa’s marginalisation and the forcesof globalisation. These, along with domestic factors, including debt, internalconflicts, the impact of the ubiquitous structural adjustment programmes(SAPs), HIV/AIDS and human insecurity in general have combined tounderscore foreign aid and economic assistance as key driving forces ofthe continent’s foreign policies and diplomacy towards the North. Yet, thenew thrust of foreign policies, informed by the need for foreign aid, has notoccurred without a price. Among other things it has elevated technocrats incentral or reserve banks and finance ministries to positions of prominencevis-à-vis officials from foreign ministries and in the process introduced extra-African actors into the foreign policy making process of the continent. Thisin turn has undermined Africa’s increasingly tenuous economic sovereignty.But above all, it has led to the strengthening of ties with the North andinternational creditors in particular at the cost of intra-African relations.The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the AfricanUnion (AU) recently inaugurated, promise to open a new chapter in Africa’sinternational relations. It is argued, however, that against a background of aconfluence of factors, these new continental projects will make only a minimalimpact in terms of mitigating the consequences of the aid-driven foreignpolicies and thus altering the donor-oriented postures of African states

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  • Journal IconAfrican Journal of International Affairs
  • Publication Date IconAug 2, 2023
  • Author Icon John K Akokpari
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NEPAD and the Challenge of Africa’s Development:

Abstract:The critical necessity of development for Africa in the 21ˢᵗ century is an issue around which there is considerable consensus. There is, however, little agreement on the nature of the crisis, the required development framework, and the ‘desired state’. In the context of the debate, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) has been promoted by its authors and sponsors as Africa’s development blueprint for meeting its development challenges. Much of the criticism of NEPAD has focused, procedurally, on the lack of consultation in its drafting, and, paradigmatically, on its neo- liberal content, the same set of policy instruments that have damaged Africa over the last 20 years. The latter underscores the sense of betrayal that comes through civil society resistance to NEPAD. The question though is this: Why would a group of African leaders, who seem genuine in their concerns, take responsibility for such policy framework? The paper seeks an explanation in the complex interaction between a set of developments since 1980: the neo-liberal hegemony at the level of state policymaking, internal policy atrophy, coercive power of compliance, but equally the new constituencies (class forces) that have been thrown up in the last two decades – within the state, economy, and importantly the civil society in sub-Saharan Africa. Much of the latter is premised on the ‘death of the emancipatory project’ and the dominant politics of the petty bourgeois class in Africa. It is in this sense that we understanding NEPAD as a class project, hence, its import.Introduction

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  • Journal IconAfrican Journal of International Affairs
  • Publication Date IconAug 2, 2023
  • Author Icon Jìmí O Adésínà
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Harnessing Capacity in Southern Africa to Support and Develop Human Resources for Nursing and Midwifery in Africa – Part 2: Case Studies from the DRC and Mozambique

Human resources for health has been the centre of attention for many decades as more African countries fail to meet health targets even though there is no shortage of country-specific policies and strategies to improve these resources. The WHO Africa region has a critical shortage of nurses and midwives, which will remain unresolved as long as funding and policy implementation challenges persist. In the interim, the profession itself must find innovative and collaborative ways to make inroads into the nursing shortages – specifically in areas where advanced clinical skills are needed. Harnessing capacity from within universities in southern Africa is posited as one of the ways to bolster the education of nurses and midwives. Presented in part 1, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development project aimed to increase the number and enhance the quality of postgraduate education and clinical training of nurses and midwives to improve the quality of healthcare services with particular reference to the reduction of maternal and neonatal mortality rates. In fulfilling this aim, clinical master’s programmes were developed and implemented in seven African countries. In this article, we chose illustrative case studies to describe the master’s programme design and roll-out, in line with the health profile of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Mozambique. We explain the programme electives, enrolments and throughput, including outputs and outcomes. From experiences gained and lessons learnt, we extrapolate implications for future cases that employ pan-African and south-to-south university partnerships.

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  • Journal IconAfrica Journal of Nursing and Midwifery
  • Publication Date IconMay 30, 2023
  • Author Icon Judith Bruce + 2
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THE AFRICAN UNION’S AGENDA 2063 FOR AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT: POSSIBILITY OR RUSE?

When Africa emerged from the chains of colonialism, there was great hope for post-colonial African leaders to consolidate the spirit of Pan-Africanism and use Africa's vast resources to spur inclusive socioeconomic development. The Organization of African Unity also supported this vision, as did the Lagos Plan of Action and the New Partnership for Africa's Development. Great emphasis was placed on continental integration and African unity. However, post-colonialism, Africa has been engulfed by never conflict, fragmentation of governance, political instability, and unstable relations between African countries, thus defeating the need for unity and collective development. The African Union Agenda 2063 is Africa's blueprint for achieving inclusive and sustainable socioeconomic development. It seeks to ensure, amongst others, peace and economic and political stability. However, there have been questions about whether the AU can achieve this. This doubt has been driven by the plethora of socioeconomic and political problems currently consuming Africa. This paper reviews current literature to examine the practicality of AU agenda 2063. It seeks to understand whether this agenda can be a possibility or just another plan with little if no substance. The following question will guide this paper: to what extent can the AU's agenda 2063 become realizable, considering the current socioeconomic and political challenges engulfing Africa?

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  • Journal IconPRIZREN SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL
  • Publication Date IconDec 31, 2022
  • Author Icon Victor H Mlambo + 2
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Harnessing Capacity in Southern Africa to Support and Develop Human Resources for Nursing and Midwifery in Africa: Part 1 Project Description

The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Project on Nursing and Midwifery Education in Africa is designed to respond to critical health skill concerns and a pledge made by the Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) in Uganda in 2010 (AU 2010). Ten years later, the State of the World’s Nursing Report (SoWN) (WHO 2020) estimates a shortage of 5.9 million nurses, with the greatest gap (89%) found in low- and lower middle-income countries. To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) relating to health and well-being, World Health Organisation (WHO) member states would have to educate enough nurses to eliminate global shortages and to meet changing healthcare needs. In low- and lower middle-income countries, addressing nursing shortages requires an average increase in the number of graduates of 8.8% per year from 2018 to 2030 and an uptake of at least 70% into the workforce. The production and uptake burden facing southern Africa is a double-edged sword; a project such as this attempts to address this dual burden by adopting a novel approach to build nursing and midwifery capacity that espouses the values of collaboration, self-reliance and humanness. In this paper, we report on South-South collaboration as one of the strategies to develop nursing and midwifery education in the context and challenges of universities in southern Africa. The paper outlines the principles and values of the project; rooted in Ubuntu as a theoretical framework, it articulates the project vision, goals, objectives and implementation methodology, concluding with the profile of six NEPAD projects.

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  • Journal IconAfrica Journal of Nursing and Midwifery
  • Publication Date IconNov 21, 2022
  • Author Icon Judith Bruce + 1
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Mass media and the challenge of xenophobia in promoting the ideals of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)

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  • Journal IconCommunicare: Journal for Communication Studies in Africa
  • Publication Date IconOct 24, 2022
  • Author Icon Matt Mogekwu
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After All Is Said and Done: On Fluid Solidarity and Survival

After All Is Said and Done: On Fluid Solidarity and Survival

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  • Journal IconAfrican Arts
  • Publication Date IconAug 15, 2022
  • Author Icon Nomusa Makhubu
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New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the Challenges of Good Governance in Africa: An Appraisal of the Nigeria’s Democratic Journey in the Fourth Republic (1999-Date)

Though, Nigeria’s attempt to democratize its political space in the wake of the virtual continent-wide embrace of democracy following the demise of the cold-war was greeted with some attendant political stalemates. The impasse of the June 12th 1993 and the elongated transition to civil-rule programs of the Nigerian military government marked some turning points in the Nigeria’s journey towards democratic governance. The eventual departure of the Nigerian military from the political stage in 1999 and the birthing of democratic government only came into after the abrupt end of the cold war and the bipolar world system which, marked the triumphant emergence of the western liberal democracy, the final withdrawal of the Nigerian military from politics in 1999 and the formation of a democratic administration took over a decade to materialize. However, Nigeria , a leading proponent member-nation of the African home-grown initiative of NEPAD is today, challenged by a myriad of contending problems, arising paradoxically from some of the agenda with which NEPAD as a multilateral platform for the African nations has been put in place to address . This paper is essentially literature-based and therefore, attempts to historicize the Nigeria’s journey and its travails of democratization, as well as, the contradictions, which have also put to interrogation, the country’s democratic credentials amidst its crises of governance. The paper noted that, for Nigeria as a leading country on the continent, there is need for the self cleansing of its domestic polity and the civic space in keeping faith to the sacred creed of sowing the seed of democracy and consolidating such on the African continent.

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  • Journal IconAmerican Journal of Arts and Human Science
  • Publication Date IconAug 11, 2022
  • Author Icon Mustafa Adedeji Tukur
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Fate of Africa faced with the proliferation of development models: Critical analysis of the Lagos Action Plan and the New Partnership for Africa's Development

Le développement a toujours été la question majeure depuis la fin de la deuxième guerre mondiale. C’est ainsi qu’en 1948 et 1949, les Nations-Unies vont consacrer des réunions et des résolutions au problème de sous-développement. Sur ce, les conférences de Bandoeng tenues en 1955 et 1961, réunissant les pays de tiers monde, les organismes internationaux ont affiché le souci majeur d’éviter une irréversible dégradation de la situation des pays pauvres. Ces organismes vont décider de consacrer la période de 1960 à 1970, la « décennie du développement ». Les années 1980 que l’on considère parfois comme les années de rupture, n’ont pas été une exception à cette règle. Quelles sont les différentes contraintes internes et externes qui sont à la base de non-émergence de l’Afrique ? L’objet de notre étude est de saisir la société globale, afin d’appréhender les causes des échecs, des différentes stratégies des modèles de développement proposées pour le décollage du continent d’Afrique. Nous nous sommes servis de la méthode comparative qui a été complétée par la technique documentaire. En définitive, la comparaison étalée sur les faits concrets, a permis de confirmer l’inadéquation des solutions proposées à la situation spécifique de l’Afrique. L’exclusion de la population africaine à la résolution de leurs problèmes, ainsi que le manque de fonds propres et de volonté politique à la situation des dirigeants africains, ont fait marquer à ces modèles le caractère endogène et autogéré. Le résultat est fort décevant, car les stratégies fondées sur un modèle occidental n’ont pu répondre aux besoins immédiats des africains en alimentation, éducation, santé communautaire, infrastructures socio-économiques de base et routières, etc. Mots clés : Géopolitique, partenariat, émergence, développement, États africains.

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  • Journal IconRevue Congolaise des Sciences & Technologies
  • Publication Date IconFeb 10, 2022
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Nepad and the Struggle to Improve the Efficacy of Africa’s Public Sector: A Case Study of Nigeria’s Servicom

This paper evaluates Nigeria's Service Compact with All Nigerians (SERVICOM) policy as a derived policy of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) project to generalize the advancement of Africa's public sectors' functionality in the 21st century. The cardinal policy thrust of NEPAD, of which SERVICOM is consequentially from, is partly to ensure that the continent's public services are poised to deliver accelerated social, economic and political development, as well as ensure the facilitation of good governance. Anchored on Max Weber's bureaucratic theory, the paper notes the lack of political will to commit to purposeful public sector reforms, which undermine the realization of the SERVICOM-cum-NEPAD initiative for public sector effectiveness and efficiency. It also notes that Nigeria‘s public sectors in the 21st century have tended towards underperformance due in part to the abandonment of the tenets of Weber‘s bureaucratic theory in their operations. The paper concludes that greater politics-administration cooperation than dichotomy will improve adherence to the precepts of Weber‘s bureaucratic theory as well as the modernization of public servants through investments in training and re-training. It also concludes that the public should seek to resolutely pursue remedies for infractions by public servants rather than overlook ineffectual operational performances as a way to strengthen attainment of the SERVICOM objectives for accelerated capacity development of public servants.

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  • Journal IconJournal of African Union Studies
  • Publication Date IconDec 1, 2020
  • Author Icon Ikemefuna Taire Paul Okudolo + 1
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An appeal for practical social justice in the COVID-19 global response in low-income and middle-income countries

An appeal for practical social justice in the COVID-19 global response in low-income and middle-income countries

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  • Journal IconThe Lancet. Global health
  • Publication Date IconMay 14, 2020
  • Author Icon Maureen Kelley + 6
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Vitamin D Deficiency in Young African Children

Background: Vitamin D deficiency is linked to infections, rickets, and poor child development. However, data on the vitamin D status of African children are limited. We examined the prevalence and predictors of low vitamin D status in young African children. Methods: We measured 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD), C-reactive protein (CRP), malaria parasitaemia, and anthropometry among 3880 children aged 0-8 years living in Kenya, Uganda, Burkina Faso, and South Africa. We evaluated associations between vitamin D status and country, age, sex, anthropometric indices, inflammation and malaria parasitaemia in regression analyses and structural equation models. Findings: The overall prevalence of vitamin D deficiency using 25OHD cut-offs of <30 nmol/L and <50 nmol/L was 0·7% (95% CI 0·5, 1·0) and 7·4% (95% CI 6·6, 8·3) respectively, while 35·4% (95% CI 33·9, 36·9) of children had levels between 50–75 nmol/L. Overall geometric mean 25OHD level was 78·1 nmol/L (95% CI 77·3, 78·9) and median age was 22·1 months (interquartile range 12·1, 25·2). Vitamin D deficiency was more prevalent in South African and in older children. 25OHD levels were lower in children with malaria parasitaemia and higher in those with inflammation, but were not associated with sex, stunting, underweight or wasting. Interpretation: Only 1% and 7% of children were vitamin D deficient as defined by 25OHD levels <30 nmol/L and <50 nmol/L, respectively. Latitude, age and prevalence of inflammation and malaria should be considered in strategies to assess and manage vitamin D deficiency in young children living in Africa. Funding Statement: This work was funded by Wellcome [grant numbers SHA 110255, TNW 202800, AJM 106289 and AME 064693, 079110, 095778], and with core awards to the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme [203077]. AA is supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health in the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health (CRGGH). The CRGGH (1ZIAHG200362) is supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the Center for Information Technology, and the Office of the Director at the National Institutes of Health. RMM and JMM are supported through the Developing Excellence in Leadership, Training and Science (DELTAS) Africa Initiative [DEL-15-003]. The DELTAS Africa Initiative is an independent funding scheme of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS)’s Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA) and supported by the New Partnership for Africa’s Development Planning and Coordinating Agency (NEPAD Agency) with funding from Wellcome [107769] and the UK government. Declaration of Interests: We declare no competing interests. Ethics Approval Statement: Informed written consent was obtained from all children’s parents or guardians before inclusion in the study. Ethical approvals were granted by the Scientific Ethics Review Unit of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI/SERU/CGMR-C/046/3257) in Kenya, the Uganda Virus Research Institute (GC/127/12/07/32) and Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (MV625) in Uganda, by Ministere de la Recherche Scientifique et de l’Innovation (reference 2014-12-151) in Burkina Faso, the University of Witwatersrand Human Research (M130714) in South Africa and in the UK by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (A340) and the Oxford Tropical Research Ethics Committees (39-12, 41-12, 42-14, and 1042-13).

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  • Journal IconSSRN Electronic Journal
  • Publication Date IconJan 1, 2020
  • Author Icon Reagan M Mogire + 19
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Dimensions of Governance and Child Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Subnational Analysis

There is broad consensus in the literature on development that effective governance is one of the keys to development. It is against this background of the relationship between good governance and socioeconomic development that the African Union (AU), following its establishment in 2000, indicated good governance in its constitutive act as part of its policy framework for member states in line with the tenets of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). The present study examined the relationship between good governance and less child deprivation using pooled data from Afrobarometer surveys and Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in sub-Saharan countries since 2000. The study examined the relationship between such dimensions of governance as democracy, voting, effectiveness and transparency as measured by trust and corruption as well as measures of child outcomes such as availability of toilet facilities, vaccinations, nutrition and mortality. The study found that the relationship between regional governance and children’s well-being was weak and inconsistent. It indicated that although a deepening of democracy might lead to improvements in the long-term outcomes of nutrition and child survival, these improvements would be relatively small. Further, results suggested that, in terms of good governance, trust was not particularly helpful and that corruption was not as harmful as many would suggest.

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  • Journal IconPoliteia
  • Publication Date IconDec 31, 2019
  • Author Icon Tim Heaton + 1
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