Idasa
A blog by Idasa
Blog description:
Debating democracy in Africa
Blog Rank:
Idasa ranks 1114 in Africa and 731 in South Africa. According to site visitors it ranks 986, and 990 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 1845 and 1828 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
Haiti, debt and IFIs
- By Nancy Dubosse - This week the scarlet letter is worn by the international financial institutions (IFIs). Two weeks ago, the IMF scored some kudos in the realm of public opinion, even among staunch IMF critics, for rescinding an emergency loan of $100 million to Haiti and re-offering
How did Haiti get here?
- By Nancy Dubosse - I appreciate Pat Robertson’s historical analysis on the causes of the earthquake in Haiti. By all accounts, the Haitian Revolution has everything a great story should have. It starts off with the search for and struggle over gold, then sugar, then coffee. There are
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Eskom – we need a public conversation
By Richard Calland and Gary Pienaar Picking holes in the governance of electricity supply, and energy policy more generally, is like shooting fish in a barrel. Whether it is the development and sequencing of key policy documents, the absence of proper stakeholder consultation, leadership failure, or the lack
The winners eat and the losers don’t …
- By Stefan Gilbert - About an hour after the plane was scheduled to depart, we were told that the flight to Sierra Leone would be delayed by six hours. This, I was told, would make for an interesting night. The trick with Sierra
Models of Hope in Ghana
The Community of Practice for African media practitioners working on HIV/AIDS was recently launched in Livingstone, Zambia by Idasa’s Governance and AIDS Programme. Two of the participants speak in this video clip, about an initiative in Ghana called “Models of Hope” which provides positive role models for people living with
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Media and HIV – getting together
It was hot, humid and sweaty and the airline had lost my luggage. After filling out a few bureaucratic forms with a smiling Zambian face, I joined the bus of strangers – new recruits to Idasa’s Community of Practice for African communications practitioners who write about HIV/AIDS. We were
Tuning in to citizen’s conversations about HIV/AIDS
More public and less experts: how do we re-connect the work of journalists with the work of citizens? - by Marietjie Myburgh - For the last 10 years I have been working in the field of HIV and AIDS Communication. During this time, I have watched in frustration what
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