In areas that had received the most American aid, the probability of conflict increased by 3.1 percentage points.
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International scholarships make up most of the foreign aid to higher education in conflict-affected countries.
Instead of disconnected projects driven by external priorities, a country platform enables governments to set the agenda and direct finance to where it is needed.
Wage workers in street food shops are among the most vulnerable category of workers in Ghana.
Nigeria needs to step up disease prevention and control and decentralise disease surveillance as the US pulls donor funding.
What’s missing in most donor evaluations is a participatory approach to measurement and evaluation that asks local communities what matters to them and then adapts evaluation frameworks accordingly.
World Bank president Ajay Banga is in Australia to secure funding for sustainable economic development and critical infrastructure in the world’s poorest nations.
HIV services must be comprehensive to ensure that people take their medication as prescribed and avoid onward transmission of the virus.
Even before the advent of COVID-19, donors had begun to exit HIV programmes with increasing frequency.
Current approaches to expand renewable energy in Ghana are not inclusive of the rural poor.
Relying on donor funding means that the funder ultimately determines the health priorities. This is one reason why many programmes in Africa focus on a single disease such as HIV.
Wavering commitment in African capitals and the continued attractiveness of the African Union to external funders risk stalling the crucial path to financial autonomy.
Aid has never been just about helping people. It’s also about gaining influence and exercising soft power.
Remarkable progress is being made on HIV treatment. But African countries need to work on sustainable ways to ensure the treatment programmes are not entirely dependent on foreign aid.
African leaders need to up their health allocations to help the new World Health Organisation Director-General meet his health care targets for the continent.
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Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
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Health Systems Researcher, Makerere University
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Research fellow, Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), United Nations University
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Professor in Global Health Infection and Immunity. and co-Director of the Global Health Academy, University of Edinburgh
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Assistant Professor of International Relations, University of Amsterdam
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Associate Professor, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
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Researcher, Nelson Mandela University
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Honorary Fellow, Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Practice of Climate Security, National Defense University
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Research Associate in Peace and Conflict Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, SOAS, University of London
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Emeritus Associate Professor in Public Law, UCT. Visiting Adjunct Professor, WITS School of Governance; Director, Africa Programme, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
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Professor, Economics Department, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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Professor of Economics and André Hoffman Chair in Political Economics and Governance, Geneva Graduate Institute, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Paris School of Economics – École d'économie de Paris