Idasa

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A blog by Idasa

Blog description:

Debating democracy in Africa

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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

Best wishes for the Festive Season

idasa Festive season wishes

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

Idasa part of America’s Giving Challenge

Support our mission to build democratic societies in Africa by joining our cause on Facebook here Idasa has entered America’s Giving Challenge, which gives us a chance to win $50,000!  Join our cause on facebook and donate too. To win, between now and November 7th we have to get

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