Time to celebrate! Doha COP18 will go down in history as the COP that incorporated Gender in the main negotiation text. The draft circulated co chairs of SBI Agenda 21, which was prepared...
I was born and raised in the urban Gambian setting and never experienced rural life. As a young person, I have always been convinced that life in the urban areas is the best thing someone could ever...
This report examines the impact of climate change on urban communities in six African cities, and looks at how people are coping with and adapting to increasingly frequent and severe episodes of...
The following is an account of the ActionAid International (AAI) Zimbabwe Women’s Rights Team which attended the Rural Women’s Assembly Regional Meeting and the Durban Conference of...
I have to say from the onset that I am not an activist as such. In fact, I don’t have the grace, power and consistency to be one, but I am a social noisemaker. Social evils that affect the masses...
Teresa Marweyi, a rural woman farmer from Rukweza Ward in Makoni District in Manicaland Province, says as the whole world meets to discuss climate issues at the 17th meeting of the United Nations...
Elizabeth Daka used to struggle to give her family more than one meal a day. After converting to conservation farming Elizabeth is able to give her children three meals a day and she has enough food...
Communication is power! If you doubt it, try talking to someone with whom you do not share any common language. This is what happened to me in when we travelled from Malawi to Chipata in Zambia. When...
The flowers that never blossom, the promises that never come true are the sentiments in the poem recited by Peace a student from Wiggins Secondary School in Kumi at the launch of the scorecard...
