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Is a STEM scale-up really possible in Africa?
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Understanding Africa’s STEM Education Challenge Africa faces a significant STEM skills gap. According to UNESCO,[1] Africa needs an additional 23 million STEM graduates by 2030 to fill critical roles in engineering, healthcare and information technology. In 2018, sub-Saharan Africa had an estimated 124 researchers per million inhabitants, compared with a global average of more than…
More than heart is needed to fix South Africa’s challenged education system
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More than heart Dr Mark Abrahams spoke of the need for an education movement in his blog entitled, An Educational Movement, it is now time, and this has never been more true. Every day, thousands of passionate educators and non-profit leaders across South Africa pour their energy into classrooms and communities. They have no shortage…
Tackling Health Equity Systemically: Lessons from Evaluating Tekano’s Strategic Evolution
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Nobody ever said that driving systemic change would be easy. Southern Hemisphere’s evaluation of Tekano (originating from the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in South Africa) offers vital insights into both the complexity of evaluating systems transformation and the worthiness of the endeavour. The deep-seated disparities in South Africa mean that health systems are inherently…
Reaching beyond the clinic walls: Why building a movement is the real remedy for the HIV Response
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Shifting the paradigm in the fight against HIV/Aids When we think about the global fight against HIV, the images that most frequently come to mind are the clinical response i.e. the distribution of life-saving Antiretroviral Therapies (ARVs), medical consultations, and frontline health workers in community clinics. These practical interventions are undeniably vital and they have…
The “low-hanging fruit” of sustainability: food systems
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One thing to change to move towards sustainability I was recently challenged to apply my mind to the one thing that I would change if I could to make a difference in the sustainability space. Given the complexity of sustainability as a field and the understanding I hold about all of the different aspects that…
Imagination may be the key to unlocking a better future
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The “better future” is supposedly already here We are ostensibly living in an era with less poverty, better health and life expectancy and more access to human rights and education than ever. The progress in the last 200 years is undeniable and the extensive data by the likes of Max Roses (Our World in Data),…
