DevDispatch is excited to curate the "African Women Breaking Barriers" Clubhouse conversation on Mawazo Institute's e-Book African Women Innovating to Fight COVID-19 featuring African women scientists who debuted their scientific innovations to fight COVID-19
Pamela highlights the publication Counting Every Drop A Decade in Review: The state of WASH Financing 2010 to 2020 to celebrate World Water Day 2022 under the theme Groundwater: Making the Invisible Visible
To date, the COVID-19 pandemic which hit Zimbabwe in March 2020 has led to 1500 loss of lives. Funeral ceremonies and the way we send off our loved ones have consequently changed due to the restrictions on movement of people and gatherings.
Traditional marriage ceremonies/roora/lobola in Zimbabwe are special occasions to celebrate the union of two families. They are characterised by gatherings, negotiations, ritual observance, blessings, dancing and feasting.
From January 1st 2021, Africa started to trade as one bloc under the AfCFTA. Keeping with our goal of making development knowledge more accessible to development experts in Africa, we are launching a Reading Club
In May 2021, I shared the first Monthly Dispatch from the DevDispatch. I hope to do this every month but most importantly I want it to contain information that is relevant to you whether it is articles, videos, discussions, pieces of research, or other interesting finds from around the global development space in Africa.
Last week, the DevDispatch participated in the 6th PIDA Week from 18-21 January 2021. The Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) is the African Union’s (AU) strategic framework for regional and continental infrastructure development, guiding the continental infrastructure development agenda, policies, and investment priorities.
Theme: All things AfCFTA Reading Club: We are setting up a Reading Club for trade experts and enthusiasts interested in learning and staying connected on all things AfCFTA. Want to join?
It’s the end of another (eventful) month in the fight against COVID-19. Number of infections continue to grow. Globally confirmed cases are at 5,934,936 and confirmed deaths are 367,166. We closed out this week in Africa, with 140 741 confirmed cases and 4,059 deaths.
The eve of Africa Day 2020 marked 100 days since the outbreak of Covid-19 in Africa which has since infected 107,412 people and taken the lives of 3,246 people. Notwithstanding, African nations took their place