African mass markets demonstrate the value of contextualizing gender issues The notion of gender inclusion has been in African communities for decades but there has not been much adoption due to a number of contentious issues. One of the reasons for slow traction is that development organizations pushing gender inclusion have not invested enough time Read more about African mass markets demonstrate the value of contextualizing gender issues[…]

Benefits of consolidating government programs and development initiatives The benefits of collaborating and building partnerships to solve shared problems like climate change seem very obvious. Mounting evidence indicates that dividing issues into themes often breaks natural synergies, for instance, between agriculture, environment, energy, mobility and other issues that should be approached holistically.  However, the fact Read more about Benefits of consolidating government programs and development initiatives[…]

African Knowledge Management should start by consolidating food preservation innovations at colleges and universities Over the past few years, African institutions of higher learning like colleges and universities have added innovation to their mandate of generating higher level expertise, knowledge and skills. To that end, they have made some headway in research, innovation as well Read more about African Knowledge Management should start by consolidating food preservation innovations at colleges and universities[…]

Increasing the capacity of communities to process information and knowledge One of the reasons why democracy has taken long to germinate in African countries is because ordinary rural people lack capacity to process information from within their own communities as well as information from government sources, from members of parliament, from development agencies and mainstream Read more about Increasing the capacity of communities to process information and knowledge[…]