This week, the Sahel Alliance, a consortium of 25 development partners including the World Bank and IFC, renewed its pledge to help five countries of the subregion out of poverty.
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Public policy and the act of poetry: a path to togetherness in a healing world: IPP Community of Practice
Isabel Fontoura
One week ago, today, I met, with delight, the words of the youngest inaugural poet in American history, Amanda Gorman, as President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris took office. With a voice filled with warmth and courage, which resembled the vividness of the ipê trees of my native land, she reminded the world that If we merge mercy with might, and might with right, then love becomes our legacy and change our children s birthright. I wrote this passage of her inaugural poem The Hill We Climb on a piece of paper, in a quest to, somehow, hold to the emotion I first felt that day. Later, Ms. Gorman shared her view that poetry is an instrument of social change and one of the most political arts out there because it demands rupture and destabilizing the current language. It is, thus, a path to toget
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A permanent disaster fund to deal with future pandemics, the climate crisis and natural disasters should be proposed by the G7, senior UN and humanitarian figures have said.
Such a fund would reduce the need to resort to an emergency begging bowl. When Covid-19 hit the globe just 2% of the needed funding was ready in advance, advocates of the plan say.
The alliance includes Mark Lowcock, the head of the UN’s office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs, Amir Abdulla, the deputy director of the UN food programme, David Miliband, the head of the International Rescue Committee, Jagan Chapagain the head of the International Red Cross, and one of Number 10’s most trusted development advisers, Prof Paul Collier. Support also comes from Unicef, and a host of other humanitarian agencies.
Zambia is a landlocked mineral dependent country in Southern Africa whose history is intimately entwined with the copper mining industry. Having gained Independence from Britain in 1964 at the height of a copper boom, the country experienced a slow and painful economic decline over the next quarter century. However, following a traumatic and protracted process of economic adjustment through the 1990s and early 2000s, Zambia s economic potential is now better than it has been at any time since Independence.
This book, which contains a set of rigorous but accessible essays by a range of Zambian and international scholars, seeks to examine the challenges and opportunities that currently face Zambian policymakers as they seek to harness the country s valuable natural assets to broad-based and sustainable economic growth over the coming decades. Written in a non-technical manner by leading scholars in the field, the chapters address key challenges in the areas of natural resource manage
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