By Prof Henry Thairu Chair of the Commission for University Education, and Director of Consultancy Services, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya.
Early this year, the BBC ran a headline story by the Director of the OECD’s Directorate of Education and Skills, Andreas Schleicher, titled ‘China opens a new university every week’. At this rate China is set to overtake the total number of graduates in the Western world and perhaps in the rest of the world.
By Joanes Atela, Claire Quinn, Albert Arhin, Lalisa Duguma and Kennedy Mbeva
Africa is mentioned in almost every climate change research and policy as the most vulnerable, the most exposed and the most affected continent by climate change. Global solutions being proposed to tackle climate change whether though adaptation, mitigation, capacity building, financial support are strongly justified around addressing Africa’s vulnerabilities such as hunger, disasters and diseases among others.
By Dr. Joanes Atela, ACTS
Background
This week from 23rd-27th May, 2016, delegates drawn from across the world are gathered at the UNEP headquarters in Nairobi to participate in the second session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-2) to deliberate on the overarching theme ‘ ‘Delivering on the environmental dimension of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’’.
By Dr. Cosmas Ochieng, former Executive Director, ACTS and Dr. Hailemichael Teshome Demissie, Senior Research Fellow, ACTS
It is common tradition that every nation wants to make and preserve their leaders’ portraitures in the best way possible commissioning the best artists, sculptors and photographers.
By Prof. Bitange Ndemo, Associate professor, University of Nairobi
“3D Printing has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything.” President Barack Obama
Did you know that in 1990 a novel project to manufacture motor vehicles in Kenya was abandoned due to the high cost of building five prototypes?
By Dr. Joanes Atela, ACTS
In March, researchers, knowledge brokers and funders gathered in Pretoria, South Africa to share lessons and experiences on how a decade of ESRC-DFID research support has impacted on poverty reduction.The Conference came just a few months after the launch Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
If the INDCs are going to be the foundations of a global climate solution, we need to make sure they are durable and clear, argue experts
By Pieter Pauw and Kennedy Liti Mbeva
The Paris climate summit was a diplomatic triumph, one built on nearly 190 national climate action plans delivered to the UN in 2015.
By Mourine Cheruiyot, ACTS
Technology is evolving rapidly and it is influencing consumers' behaviors, their daily lifestyle, marketing, and business activities. User acceptance of technology is a critical key factor to determine its success.
By: Prof. Torbjörn Fagerström, Dr. Roy B. Mugiira and Prof. Lisa Sennerby Forsse a) Värtavägen 39, SE 115 29 Stockholm, Sweden, b) Directorate of Research Management and Development, State Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Nairobi, Republic of Kenya, c) Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Box 7070, Uppsala, S-750 07 Sweden.
By Ms. Jully Senteu and Joel Onyango
Heaps of garbage and polybags scattered as far as the eye can see are regrettably a common sight in most urban and peri-urban centers across the country. It is disheartening, when you drive across a centre made up of less than a dozen shops yet there is so much plastic littered all over, you can barely spot a patch of green – or brown.
By Dr. Sajitha Bashir, World Bank
The scale of China’s engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa is impressive and is expected to grow substantially if future projections of Chinese investments materialize. By 2013, China accounted for a quarter of all SSA trade.
Think Mobility
By Prof. L Alan Winters - Professor of Economics, University of Sussex, also of CEPR, IZA and GDN
Mobility would seem to be the very essence of trade: if things don’t move, there is no trade. This is true, and it informs the parts of this article that talk about efforts to reduce the costs of doing international trade, including trade facilitation and aid for trade.
By Dr. Cosmas Ochieng, former Executive Director, ACTS
Abstract
A combination of robust economic performance and an uptick in scientific and technological indicators over the last two decades has given rise to exuberant assessments of Africa’s development prospects in the 21st century.
By Prof. Michael Lofchie, Department of Political Science, UCLA
A vehicle for progressive change or more of the same?
History offers sobering lessons for those concerned with the prospects of broad based development in Africa. Entrenched political oligarchies do not willingly surrender their power and privilege out of a benevolent concern for the wellbeing of the many because they fear that, if they do, they might erode the basis of their dominance.
By Dr. Joanes Atela, ACTS
Unpacking Public Private Partnership (PPP)
Public-private partnership (PPP) has become a central driver of climate change actions- both in negotiations and implementation.
By Winnie Khaemba, ACTS
Context
‘You have been negotiating all my life’ lamented a Youth NGO’s Constituency (YOUNGO) representative while making an intervention at a UNFCCC COP 17 session in Durban, South Africa in 2011.
By: Kennedy Liti Mbeva, ACTS
Energy poverty is one of the major challenges holding back Africa’s transformation agenda, as clearly articulated in the African Union’s Agenda 2063[1].
By Dr. Joanes Atela, ACTS
By Dr. Cosmas Ochieng, former Executive Director, ACTS
