When the Future Challenges Team put out a call for local views on International Women’s Day, I thought long and hard. The first issues that came to mind were African women’s access to land, food security and poverty reduction- all related, especially within the contexts of governance and development. My […]

Nelly Ali sometimes carries a magic wand in her bag. She uses Twitter to fundraise for clothes for those kids (Cairo street children and mothers). She’s a strong woman tirelessly fighting for the rights of street children and young homeless mothers to physical, sexual, emotional and psychological safety. An International […]

This article was originally drafted by Mekhe Thies and the Centre for Democracy and Development for the newsletter “West Africa Insight” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. The launch ceremony was organized by the GIE Sope Khadim village women, who simultaneously received 140 ovens for cooking at […]

What are the mechanisms that can be utilized in order to accurately assess whether a country abides by the values of good governance or drifts away from them? The questions above got me thinking all weekend which lead me to share ideas on the topic: Improving good governance in Africa, […]

If you tell me that banks are institutions solely responsible for financial transactions such as lending and investing and their primary objective is the maximization of profit, well, you are almost completely right. But what if I told you that some banks were created for completely different reasons, more “human” […]