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Post-2015 Agenda: The Challenge of Economic Transformation. By Betty Maina and Stefano Prato*
Wendy Harcourt has been quite simply a unique Editor. She has crafted four high quality journal issues each year since becoming Editor in 1995. She has explored the contemporary issues of development in an intelligent and expansive manner; shaping each diverse issue into a coherent whole. But she...
The launch will provide a platform to delve into a variety of discussions on what transformation means for Africa and Tanzania. There has been a lot of excitement surrounding the fact that ‘Africa is Rising,’ but which Africa are people talking about? Which Africa is rising? Are we seeing...
Please note: all the articles below were originally published in English by Palgrave Macmillan, the SID journal publisher, and made available online for SID and AWID members.
DevelopmentPLUS - Find below additional articles and interviews on 'African Strategies for Transformation' on DevelopmentPLUS, the online blog of SID quarterly journal Development.Occupy Nigeria: Year 2012 something snapped! by Esther Eshiet
Development Vol. 55.4 brings together reflections on African development strategies over the last decade highlighting the myriad of innovative activities for African-led economic and social change. 
The launch was attended by many distinguished members of the Tanzanian government, civil society and private sector.
DevelopmentPLUS - Find below additional articles and interviews on 'Gender and Economic Justice' on DevelopmentPLUS, the online blog of SID quarterly journal Development. 
WATCH: The East Africa Future Day Promo Video
The Society for International Development and Maanisha! will be co-hosting an open forum and discussion on how the youth and young professionals of Tanzania can best engage and interact with the East African Community and regional integration process anchored by SID's publication The State of East...
The Status of Governance in Kenya: A baseline Survey Report 2012 This report provides the findings of a national baseline study on the key issues affecting citizen’s awareness, knowledge and practices relating to their civic and constitutional rights and their participation in democratic processes...
INTRODUCTION The overarching theme of my presentation is how best to promote the development of small and medium enterprises in Africa as strategic drivers of wealth and job creation. The presentation will examine this topic from a number of perspectives, notably, the linkages between enterprise...
by Christopher Rosin and Paul Stock
As a special surprise the participants of the foodFirst conference will be offered a small treat developed by Too Good To Waste. This enthusiastic group won NCDO’s Battle of the Cheetahs, a competition aimed at challenging young professionals  to come up with smart ideas for global food issues...
by Judi W. Wakhungu*
by Wendy Harcourt.  It seems incredible in these days of economic crisis that over 2,200 women (and some men) found the time and money to fly to Istanbul for a discussion on gender and economic justice at the AWID Forum 2012. Registrations closed a week before the event opened and the majority...
Q1) What does sustainable development mean or imply today for a country like Haiti? Which are the issues to be put on the agenda?

by Suman Sahai As the world struggles with successive food crises and turbulence marks the countries that suffer from endemic hunger, there is the new factor of global warming and climate change to contend with. Climate change and its impact on agriculture and food production is being properly...
by Wendy Harcourt
by Situma Mwichabe. The cooperative movement brings together over 1 billion people around the world. The UN estimated in 1994 that the livelihood of nearly 3 billion people was made secure by co-operative enterprise. These enterprises continue to play significant economic and social roles in their...