Authors: Akalewold T Gebremeskel, Akaninyene Otu, Seye Abimbola, Sanni Yaya Type of publication: Article Link to the original document   Community and community health worker engagement Community engagement plays role in resilience, and community health workers serve as a bridge between communities and health systems, but are only 3% of the world’s health manpower. This gap has been magnified…

Author: Tegan Mosugu, Victor Zacchaeus and John Ijaja Type of publication: Article Link to the original document   Understanding Effective Health Governance Concerted global health efforts are dependent on communication between humans across a plethora of social domains – economic, political, technological, cultural and environmental. These globalizing changes are gradually diminishing boundaries that before now,…

Author: Issiaka Sombié, Ermel Amewsue Kpogbe Johnson, Virgil Kuassi Lokossou, Tete S. Amouh Type of publication: Article Link to the original document   COVID-19, a disease discovered in China in December 2019, was declared a public health emergency of international concern in January 2020 and a pandemic in March 2020 [1] by the World Health…

Author: Jens Herpolsheimer Type of publication: Article Link to the original document   Introduction Academic literature on the topic of West African regional responses to epidemics or pandemics, as well as regional health cooperation more generally, is rather limited. So far, only very few publications have touched upon the subject. The few exceptions in this…

Auteur : Banque européenne d’investissement Type de publication : Article Lien vers le document original   Évaluation des besoins numériques en Afrique et de la capacité des pays à déployer des solutions L’étude approfondie qui a été réalisée a porté sur les technologies numériques déjà utilisées dans les pays africains et celles qui doivent encore…

Author : The African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) Type of publication : White paper Link to the original document   It is important that the pandemic is tackled recognizing that this is not only a health crisis but rather a multisectoral challenge, resulting in a disruption in the daily lives of people from education to…

Auteur : Mixed Migration Center West Africa Type de publication : Interview Liens vers le document original   Quel rôle le gouvernement sénégalais a-t-il joué en matière de migration de ses citoyens ? La réalité d’avoir des citoyens sénégalais qui se déplacent et s’installent dans de nombreuses régions d’Afrique, d’Europe, des États-Unis et maintenant dans d’autres pays,…

Author: Virgil Kuassi Lokossou, Aishat Bukola Usman, Issiaka Sombie, Moussiliou Noel Paraiso, Muhammad Shakir Balogun, Chukwuma David Umeokonkwo, Josephine Gatua, John Wagai, Edgard-Marius Ouendo, and Patrick Nguku Affiliated organization: International Cooperation and Global Partnerships Type of publication: Academic article Link to the official document   With the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, one of the…

Author: MIEUX+ Initiative Type of publication: Webinar Link to the official document   On 20 October 2021, in the context of the third MIEUX+ Action supporting the Secretariat of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), MIEUX+ and COMESA hosted the ‘Regional webinar on implications of COVID-19 pandemic on border management. Public Officials working in Customs,…

Author: Irene Schöfberger Affiliated organization: International Cooperation and Global Partnerships Type of publication: Article Link to the official document   Free movement and borders in regional migration governance Historically grounded studies in the region have also shown that a space delimitation based on fixed territorial structures was introduced only by colonial administrations (Walther and Retaillé,…