Global Impact Initiative Expands to Guinea
NEW YORK, New York The Global Impact Initiative (Gii) is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that provides academic and professional development programs for marginalized populations. Its efforts focus on skill-building through different programs including mentorship, training and workshops to individuals, families and communities. Over the last several months, Gii launched a training program through a partnership with a local nonprofit organization in Guinea’s second-largest city, N’Zerekore. The program focuses on improving educational resources for the Guinean youth and community. The Borgen Project spoke with Gii’s vice president of operations, Shawn Smith, to further elaborate on this program.
Economic decline and social malaise
The Zimbabwe Constitution guarantees social protection, but provision and accessibility are hampered by fiscal limitations
Small scale farmers at Monzou village after their crops were destroyed in an eviction attempt by former first lady Grace Mugabe to annex their land PHOTO Graeme Williams
In contemporary African countries social protection is broadly perceived as central and indispensable to human development. Persistent and chronic forms of poverty that often find expression in people’s failure to access life’s basic necessities, such as nutrition, health and education, have focused attention on social protection as a human and socio-economic right.
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David Almondâs death is horrifying. The state must protect other children in its care from the same fate.
Every moment in the life of a child matters.
By Denise Garlick and Carole FiolaUpdated May 7, 2021, 12:58 p.m.
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David Almond died while under the protection of the Department of Children and Families, in October 2020.Office of the Child Advocate
âThe child protective system has many built-in safeguards, both internal and external to the Department of Children and Families. All of these safeguards failed David and resulted in his untimely death,â read the Office of the Child Advocateâs investigative report into the death of 14-year-old David Almond, an adolescent with autism who died in the care and custody of DCF on Oct. 21, 2020.
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Preparing payroll tender, MSD tips hat to AoG panel and common process model
Managing the dependencies between enterprise software projects in government appears challenging. Credit: IDG
The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) is getting ready to go to market for new, cloud-based payroll software to replace its existing Chris21 on-premises system.
However, there were a few developments and dependencies in the broader government sphere the department clearly needed to consider.
In a notice issued last week, MSD said it intended to go to market for a SaaS system from the third quarter of 2021, either using a tender process or by secondary procurement via the all of government payroll programme.