The Rockefeller Foundation has announced an initial $34.95 million to ensure more equitable access to Covid-19 testing and vaccines; leverage innovation, data, machine-learning; combat the escalating food crisis; and scale up access to renewable energy in Africa.
Collaborating with 24 organizations, businesses, and government agencies, this pan-African effort will also focus on 10 countries: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
The announcement comes 100 days after the Foundation s landmark commitment of $1 billion over three years to help end the Covid-19 pandemic and drive a more inclusive and sustainable global recovery. Since The Rockefeller Foundation first opened its Africa Regional Office in Nairobi in 1966, the region has remained a top priority for us, said Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, President of The Rockefeller Foundation. With this initial round of funding, we are beginning to deliver on our billion-dollar pledge
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New estimates reveal extent of the health burden of armed conflict affecting at least 630 million women and children worldwide in 2017, and contributing to more than 10 million deaths among children under 5 years of age over 20 years.
Changing nature of war is a growing threat to humanitarian access and the provision of essential health services for women and children, but responses in countries like Syria, Pakistan, and Colombia may provide context-specific innovative ways forward.
Armed conflicts are becoming increasingly complex and protracted and a growing threat to humanitarian access and the delivery of essential health services, affecting at least 630 million women and children over 8% of the world s population in 2017, according to a new four-paper Series exposing the far-reaching effects of modern warfare on women s and children s health, published today in
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Subgranting – when a donor allocates a substantial amount of money to a credible organisation for further disbursement to other organisations – is becoming more common as a strategy by large donors to make sure that funding is reaching the right people. It reduces the administrative burden for donors on working individually with organisations on relatively small projects, and the uncertainty they might feel about worthy or convincing projects or organisations to support. Organisations like APC serve as intermediaries to these funds – they are strategically situated to provide the kinds of guarantees needed by donors that their money will be disbursed well.
Why Kenya cannot afford to lag behind in 5G uptake
Thursday January 21 2021
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Kenya’s largest telecommunication operator, Safaricom, recently suspended deployment of its highly anticipated new fifth-generation (5G) mobile network.
The action somewhat derailed the pace the country has set over the years in Africa’s technology sector that has earned it the title ‘Africa’s Silicon Savanna’.
The news came as a surprise to many given that the company has already completed testing and trials of the new network’s high-speed mobile connections.
Had it been implemented as planned, the project was poised to propel the country as the second in Africa to successfully roll out the 5G network, only after South Africa.
City to have 1st Franco-Ontarian woman auditor general
Ottawa city council has unanimously approved the selection of Nathalie Gougeon as the city s next auditor general, the first female Franco-Ontarian to ever to hold the position.
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Posted: Dec 18, 2020 11:04 AM ET | Last Updated: December 18, 2020
Nathalie Gougeon is Ottawa s next auditor general. She is the first Franco-Ontarian woman to ever to hold the position.(supplied)
Ottawa city council has unanimously approved the selection of Nathalie Gougeon as the city s next auditor general, the first Franco-Ontarian woman to ever hold the position.
Gougeon, who is bilingual, is both the second Franco-Ontarian and the second woman to be chosen.