Despite impressive growth rates in East Africa, the effects of growth on poverty reduction and employment creation have been limited, particularly for youth.
Achieving water security in Africa remains a major challenge for policymakers. Moreover, there is evidence linking climate variability to deteriorating water security in the region, particularly its cities.
Existing data indicate a tobacco epidemic of the first order in Africa, but the rapid increase in tobacco consumption continues.
While much national and international attention has focused on the rise in post-electoral violence in Kenya since the 1990s, the fact that a considerable part of that violence was gender and sexual in nature has gone largely unnoticed.
The countries of the Greater Horn of Africa are particularly vulnerable to drought, exacerbated by widespread poverty and dependence on rainfed agriculture. Even with normal rainfall, the region does not produce enough food to meet its needs.
African countries need adequate data as a basis for formulating and implementing systematic and coherent food security policies and strategies.
Climate change extremes such as flooding and seasonal drought are already undermining the economies of countries in the Horn of Africa, with agriculture and water resources being the most affected sectors.
The looming tobacco epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa and its potential to thwart the development process has prompted most governments in the region to ratify the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC).
This project proposes to carry out climate change adaptation pilot projects in communities in eight African countries, six of which are least developed countries.
The forests of the Congo basin provide ecosystem services to over 80% of the population living in or near them.