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Many bats have found their way to our settlements, from roosting in Nairobi’s buildings to Mombasa’s trees. They are not moving in because they like us, but because we have destroyed their homes—the forests in which they forage, breed, and raise their young. The baobab’s fruit, seeds and leaves have been used for millennia across Africa for food, oil and bark. More recently, the…
Refugees and other migrants are part of the global workforce of essential workers responding to the COVID-19 pandemic: every day they save lives and contribute to our economies and societies. Yet their contributions can be hidden, their skills undervalued and their rights denied. These examples of reforms, new initiatives and campaigns to recognise and better support migrant essential workers in…
Leaders are those who connect the dots. Equally, youth entrepreneurship in Africa will be driven by the young minds who have the ability to connect the dots. With so many challenges stemming from issues of ineffective governance, lack of infrastructure (both soft and hard) and most importantly lack of funding instruments for entrepreneurship, being a young entrepreneur in Africa…
The YEI Trust Fund promotes youth entrepreneurship and innovation What is it? A trust fund to support the new generation of African entrepreneurs and innovators The Youth Entrepreneurship and Innovation Multi-Donor Trust Fund (YEI Trust Fund) is a trust fund launched in November 2017 under the auspices of Jobs for Youth in Africa, a Bank initiative in line with the Bank's High…
The WWF’s Landscape Sourcing Report: Sustainable Business Using the Landscape Approach makes a case for the private sector to adopt landscape approaches to sustainably strengthen and increase cost effectiveness within their supply chains. Due to climate change and other environmental crises, the private sector is facing a number of issues that threaten the reliability and health of…
Land is essential to our lives – we grow food on it and rely on it for economic growth and development. In sub-Saharan Africa approximately 83% of people depend directly on land for survival. However, approximately two-thirds of the continent’s productive land is degraded – it has lost its productive capacity – to some degree. This is driven by years of overgrazing, inappropriate…