Civil Society Role in COVID – 19 Pandemic
I have seen most of us lost in translation during the past one and a half months. Waiting for things to normalize! We have withdrawn or reviewed how we engage with our governments. They are now in the lead without any measures of accountability. In many countries around the World Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) are forced to accept the (potentially unlimited nature of their measures) pronouncements without any questions lest they become unpatriotic, targeted, and labeled critics of the government. This is mostly predominant among the governments in the South.
Posted on: 2022-06-14
Author(s): By Vitalice Meja
Read MoreEvidencing Effectiveness in Covid-19 Response – The Kenyan Case
Background and Introduction Kenya’s first COVID 19 Case was confirmed on 12th March 2020. The case was an imported case from Abroad. Currently Kenya has 38,529 positive cases of COVID19 with 711 deaths reported and 24,908 patients having successfully recovered from the treatment. 98 per cent of the total case load in the country is locally transmitted. The country has carried out cumulative tests of 547 946 so far. The tested number is quite small considering a total population of 50 million. There are also very limited testing carried out in the rural area prompting the fear that the numbers of those infected by the disease of dead from it could be higher than officially captured. There also views that many more could have recovered from the disease that currently reported. Simply put, the statistics put out by the government may not necessarily be accurate given the challenges highlighted.
Posted on: 2022-06-15
Author(s): By Vitalice Meja
Read MoreA new Dawn - Towards a people Centered Africa – Europe Relations
The Africa-EU Partnership is the formal political channel through which the European Union (EU) and the African continent work together, engage in political and policy dialogues and define their cooperative relationship. It was established in 2000 at the first Africa-EU Summit in Cairo. The partnership is guided by the Joint Africa-EU Strategy, which was adopted at the second EU-Africa Summit in Lisbon in 2007. The stated objective of the partnership is to strive to bring Africa and Europe closer together through strengthening economic cooperation and promoting sustainable development, with both continents co-existing in peace, security, democracy, prosperity, solidarity and human dignity.
Posted on: 2022-06-16
Author(s): By Vitalice Meja
Read MoreInvolving the private sector to covid-19 response
The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed the health system all over the world. Many developing countries are ill-equipped to deal with the pandemic because of their weak health systems. WHO has therefore advised the government to take a whole of government and a whole of society approach in their covid-19 response. This involves working with actors in the private health sector and civil societies. Drawing on resources from the private sector is critical as the private sector has a wide variety of the non-state of the private providers in the health system, this is from large corporate hospitals to individual practitioners who could offer support in response to the pandemic.
Posted on: 2022-06-16
Author(s): By Wendy Micheni
Read More2023 ECOSOC FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT
The ECOSOC Financing for Development
Posted on: 2023-06-12
Author(s): Philistian Mwatee
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