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James Orbinski, CIGI chair in Global Health and director of the Africa Initiative, will take part in the 2013 Peace and Justice Studies Association Conference, to be held October 17-19, at Wilfrid Laurier University and Conrad Grebel University College.
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CIGI Papers
A. Torbica, M. De Allegri, D. Yugbare Belemsaga, A. Medina-Lara, and V. Ridde
Since the 1980s in West Africa, women have had to pay for antenatal care consultations and deliveries. This system, known as user fees, imposes financial barriers for poor households. Evidence shows that deliveries in a health care centre with qualified staff reduces maternal and infant mortality.
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Policy Briefs
Leila M. Harris and Cynthia Morinville
The city of Accra faces challenges in providing its citizens with potable water due to rapid population growth, poverty and governance challenges. This policy brief highlights the positive uses of local water boards and “water dialogues” to spark discussion and change in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area.
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Policy Briefs
Andrea M. Brown
While Uganda is a leader in policy development with an established record of developing policies that are used as best practices in Africa, this policy brief suggests that it is unlikely to either respond directly to urban food insecurity or substantively reflect the multidimensional needs of the country’s urban poor, particularly women.
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CIGI Papers
Lucie Edwards
Climate change is a critical issue facing the world, and nowhere is it more deeply felt than throughout Africa — a continent contributing a small carbon footprint, but dealing with the consequences of others’ actions. African climate scientists offer a unique perspective on what is described as an “out of Africa” problem begging for “made in Africa” solutions.
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Edited by Erica Shaw and Hayley MacKinnon
Africa Rising: A Continent’s Future through the Eyes of Emerging Scholars provides new insight and perspectives on issues critical to the future of the continent. Through the Africa Initiative Research Grant Program, 10 up-and-coming scholars from Africa and Canada undertook innovative cross-continent research in various countries including Canada, Ghana, Malawi, Kenya, South Africa, Ethiopia and Uganda, with a focus on policy issues across five thematic areas: conflict resolution, food security, health, migration and climate change.
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In an op-ed to the Ottawa Citizen, Visiting Fulbright Scholar Robert Rotberg looks at the impact that Malawi President Joyce Banda can have on leadership throughout Africa.
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CIGI Visiting Fulbright Scholar Robert Rotberg weighs in on what it means for the French president to visit Mali.
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Lee Berthiaume
In an interview with Postmedia News, Visiting Fulbright Scholar Robert Rotberg comments on why intervention in Mali is important, and why Canada could play a role in supporting France.
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CIGI is pleased to announce that Robert I. Rotberg, an internationally acclaimed Africa expert, is the inaugural Fulbright Research Chair in Political Development at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Visiting Fulbright Scholar at CIGI.
