African Monitor, in partnership with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) South Africa, will host a national strategic consultation which seeks to mobilise Civil Society Organizations (CSO) participation in the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This event, to be staged on behalf of the South African Working Group on SDGs, will be held on Friday,[…]
August 2017
‘Explosive’ poverty figures a result of government neglect, says Archbishop Emeritus Njongonkulu Ndungane
News Aug 24, 2017
The explosive revelation that more than half of South Africa’s population is poverty stricken is the direct result of government’s failure to heed the warnings during the past 20 years by civil society organisations on escalating rates of poverty. On Tuesday, 22 August 2017, Stats SA announced that more than a quarter of the country’s[…]
The first of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals is “Ending poverty in all its forms everywhere”. This goal aims at eradicating extreme poverty for all people everywhere by 2030. But according to the report released by Stats SA on Tuesday, 22 August 2017, South Africa is predictably very far from meeting its National Development Plan[…]
A story by Salome Nthenya Nzuki from Nairobi, Kenya. She thinks addressing teenage pregnancy is key to ensuring girl child education and achieving Sustainable Development Goals. Read Salome’s opinion here… Teenage pregnancy in Kenya is increasing at an alarming rate. Girls are becoming mothers at a very tender age. Statistics from the Kenya demographic and[…]