Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in China at the end of 2019, the virus has been spreading like wild fire across the world. No continent has been able to escape its impact. It was declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO), given its impact on the entire world population[…]
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Families believed that marrying off their girl child would get them out of poverty
News Apr 22, 2020
By Harriet Chibuta & Joseph Eliabson Maniragena While global poverty rates have been cut by more than half since 2000, one in ten people in developing regions still live on less than US$ 1.90 per day – the internationally agreed poverty line. We talked to Dorothy Chulu from Maiteneke area, and she told us[…]
Enala Ngulu was just 14 years old when she was married off as a third wife to a 47 year old man, in 1994. Enala said that when she was forced into marriage at a young age, her dreams and hopes of getting education and being independent were shuttered. She loved school, but had to[…]
Having access to electricity is considered to be one of the most important services in fighting poverty and improving the welfare of citizens. And currently, poverty is the greatest challenge prevailing in the rural areas of Zambia. The rampant power outages caused by load shedding are affecting the poorest of the poor the most. The[…]
Ensuring quality education for all is not only central to the achievement of all of the Global Goals but in particular the goal to end extreme poverty. If I was educated and had skills, I would be able to get a proper job that pays well and would be able to support my family, said[…]
African Monitor named among top three includer finalists for United Nations SDG Action Awards
News Apr 24, 2019
African Monitor (AM) is among the finalists in the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Action Awards 2019 for its project named The Citizens Report. The selection process for the awards, which attracted over 2000 contestants from 142 countries, resulted in only three finalists under each of the seven categories: mobilizer, storyteller, campaigner, connector, visualizer,[…]
Speaking as one of the patrons at the annual African Youth SDGs summit, African Monitor Director Ms. Namhla Mniki-Mangaliso had this to say: “If we do not understand how urgent and desperately needed the young voice is, just in defining what the problem is; if your voice is absent in those spaces, it means we[…]
PRESS STATEMENT 8 November 2018 African Monitor hosts a side-event at the African Youth SDGs Summit in Accra. African Monitor (AM) will host a side-event at the 2nd annual African Youth SDGs Summit on Thursday, 8 November 2018 in Accra, Ghana. The main purpose of the side-event is to launch and present the findings of[…]
African Monitor Launches the Citizens’ Report in Ghana African Monitor (AM) launched the citizen-driven data initiative – the Citizen’s Report! (CR!) yesterday, 1 November 2017 in Accra, Ghana, with support from Open Society Southern Africa and West Africa. This launch took place at the African Youth SDGs Summit (AYSDGS) hosted by AM’s partner the Youth Advocacy[…]