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This policy note investigates the recent spike in laundry soap and cooking oil prices in Uganda between June 2021 and March 2022. The upsurge primarily explained the price increase in the price of Crude Palm Oil (CPO) −the key raw material for makin…
Brian Sserunjogi
Enock W. N. Bulime
Ibrahim Kasirye
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Using the International Futures model, this note explores the effect of COVID-19 on economic and human development in Uganda in the short and long term. The model examines different scenarios to gauge the damages inflicted on the Ugandan economy. Th…
Taylor Hanna
Deva Sahadevan
Francis Mwesigye
Paul Lakuma
Linda Nakato
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The climate change is a huge challenge facing the human populace now. The extreme temperature, erratic rainfall and other events associated with it is threatening life on earth. It is no doubt that this is as a result of human activities. Food waste…
Environmental Law Research Institute (ELRI)
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Environmental contamination by heavy metals has significantly become a global issue in the recent years as it affects soil, plants, aquatic life and human health. With the increase in anthropogenic activities such as industrialization and also with …
Mariam Emiabata
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Gas flaring generate insidious environmental and energy consequences against efforts toward a sustainable development for the world. Heat-trapping gases, such as CO2, NO2 (Nitrogen dioxides) and SO2 (Sulphur dioxide), increase with gas flaring activ…
Mariam Emiabata
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Transitional justice provides holistic and inclusive strategies for addressing human rights violations that arise from violent conflicts and authoritarian rule. Forced displacement is a common consequence of such conflicts— and addressing the rights…
Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR)
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Societies emerging from violent and protracted conflicts and wars often face considerable challenges in rebuilding and entrenching a culture of peace. Similarly, negotiating and building peace in post-conflict societies is often a huge and complex u…
Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR)
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Including youth in the design and implementation of transitional justice (TJ) is now being recognised as a key priority that has been long neglected. Such inclusion and participation would strengthen the value of transitional justice initiatives for…
Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR)
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In many countries, myriad policy efforts and initiatives have been launched toward achieving the goal of Education for All. These include: grass-roots lobbying for the importance of schooling, political declarations for universal access to education…
Ayodotun Ayorinde
Adedeji Peter Adeniran
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This brief examines the implications of emerging threats to good data governance in Africa, as it relates to restrictive data policies and abuse of state power. Based on our analysis of data regulations/policy documents, studies by industry experts,…
Adedeji Peter Adeniran
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I think it is fair to say that in recent years the climate issue has been at the top of national, regional and global agendas. The recent COP26, which took place from 31 October to 13 November 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland, in a context still disrupted …
Christian Pout
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Radicalisation and violent extremism leading to terrorism are a cancer that is gaining ground in Cameroonian society. The origins of these evils are multiple. They have their sources in both exogenous and endogenous causes. During the first confront…
Christian Pout
Francois Jr Eze’e Atangana
Christiane Mireille Meva’a
Bana Barka
Gilles Bissi
Hervé Yannick Fouda
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The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD-West Africa), in collaboration with the Department of Political Affairs of the ECOWAS Commission, organised a regional strategic meeting on ‘Enhancing Traditional Justice Mechanisms in Transitional Justi…
Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD)
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The Nigerian body politic faces a seeming epidemic of insecurity spanning jihadist insurgency, criminal banditry, farmer-herder conflicts, and violent separatist agitations. While governmental responses have overwhelming followed a militarised path …
Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD)
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Democracy in West Africa, and Africa in general, has been on a worrying decline in the last five years. The democracy index of the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) shows that democracy declined globally in 2019. The average score for Africa fell fro…
Udo Jude Ilo
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The spread of false news or infox, known as ''fake news'' in the Anglo-Saxon world, has taken on a worrying and devastating scale in Benin over the last decade. The surge in the circulation of fake news has coincided with the increase in internet pe…
Léonce Gamai
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As is the case in other countries, false information is now an integral part of the information flow ecosystem in Burkina Faso. This false information rubs shoulders with true information in a context marked by the development of digital social netw…
Sampala Balima
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The implementation of a property tax mobilisation policy that takes taxpayers' concerns to heart is essential to improve tax compliance in Benin. The tax administration, in collaboration with local authorities, must: inform property owners more abou…
Jonas Fassinou
Damas Hounsounon
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While the Côte d’Ivoire is recovering from the post-electoral crisis of 2010-11 in terms of economic growth, the already high rate of unemployment has increased and poverty rates remain high. Young people (ages 14-35) have the highest unemployment r…
Assi José Carlos Kimou
Alban Ahoure
Habiba Djebbari
Maria Laura Alzua
Isabelle Becho
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Increasing the performance of women soybean farmers requires improving their access to quality production knowledge and resources including Directly targeting women as beneficiaries of capacity-building schemes in soybean farming households; Impleme…
Esther B. Ogouniyi Adimi
Rosaine N. Yegbemey
Jonas Dassoundo-Assogba
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