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The cellphone is changing African lives by providing a cheap, convenient communication line to people where traditional landlines have still not reached.
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Tertiary and advanced education is beyond the reach of most rural Africans. Training on the job and via the Internet can help bridge the education gap for school leavers.
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The Internet is opening up new opportunities for Africans to educate themselves and develop new businesses.
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Even in urban areas, many African schools lack the basics: desks, textbooks, or a wall to hang the blackboard on.
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Research has shown that giving women more financial independence is a vital step towards lifting the economies of developing countries.
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Illiteracy remains a big problem in African communities, simply because children have nothing to read and no one to read to them.
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Countries across Africa are battling to provide enough power for industrial and domestic use, and to roll out service delivery to remote rural communities.
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Small businesses like this outdoor butchery in Soweto, South Africa, are threatened by the rise of shopping malls in townships and rural areas.
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Research has proven that sustainable development begins with education and literacy.
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These members of a community outside Maputo, Mozambique, are learning how to advise their municipality on what services would most improve their lives.
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A service as basic as accessible, clean water is still out of reach for many Africans.
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This Mozambican girl left school to work after her parents died. If she does not get an education, her children will be less likely to finish school someday.
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Girls who are educated are proven to be more likely to make sure their children have an education in future.
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The media can play a strong role in communicating vital information about health, education and service delivery to Africans. But first, media producers need to be won over.
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Traditional cultures sometimes deprive widows of their inheritance rights, leaving them destitute and dependent on children and relatives.
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Across Africa, health practitioners are in short supply because so many of them emigrate to developed countries for better pay and working conditions.
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Pumps like this are relatively rare in Africa. Women and children sometimes have to walk for hours to a water source.
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Career development is an important incentive for government staff like these law enforcement officers in Mozambique.
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Infant immunisation is a relatively cheap way to prevent life threatening diseases, yet as recently as 2006 Namibia had a polio outbreak.
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Women across Africa need advice on their legal rights and opportunities available to them to build business skills.
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African citizens have the right to trust the law as well as the responsibility to obey it. Law enforcement officers have the right to develop their skills and abilities to uphold the law and serve the community.
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African entrepreneurs need assistance tapping into financial resources as well as learning how to manage and expand their businesses.
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Civil society participation in APRM in Uganda & South Africa
June 2008
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South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)
Occasional Papers Series, Number 2 & 3
Perspectives on Governance: Founded to promote public debate and research on crucial issues of public policy, the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) is pleased to send you the next in a series of occasional papers that we hope will contribute to a more robust conversation about the nature of Africa’s governance challenges.
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ANSA-Africa stakeholder conference: Growing the social accountability network
19 May 2008 - 20 May 2008
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Addis Ababa: Delegates from more than 30 African countries representing all the regional economic communities on the continent, and from international development organisations, donor organisations and academic institutions, attended the second annual conference held by ANSA-Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 19 and 20 May 2008. The focus of the conference was on social accountability in fragile and post conflict societies in Africa. 
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