SDG 6: clean water and sanitation More than 900 million Africans lack water-flushed toilets, hand-washing facilities, clean drinking water and related services By Marcel Gascón Barberá Giving everyone access to...
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Switching on one step at a time
SDG 7: affordable and clean energy Africa is making progress with efforts to provide people with electricity, but much more needs to be done to advance the use of cleaner cooking By Joe Walsh As a whole, Africa has...
Losing the war on waste
SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production African governments show little interest in coming up with sustainable waste management strategies By Charles Kimani Waste generation rates are rising across the world....
Challenging the statistics quo
SDG overview: the statistics Citizens across the continent should demand more and better data to stimulate a healthy debate about the role of ‘good numbers’ in political accountability. In June 2011, Shanta Devarajan,...
Women farmers join agricultural value chains
Women are the backbone of agricultural and rural economies in Africa, yet are often deprived of the means to become self-sufficient If Africa is to feed itself, and if land rights are to be applied universally, the...
Lesotho: Southern Africa’s ‘water engine’
Lesotho exports water to South Africa at the same time as it imports the bottled product from its larger neighbour – and rural communities are forced to drink from unprotected sources Although Lesotho is a regional...
