The Future of Trade Activism | Presented by Samuel Kasirye, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung East Africa | November 2014 2014 marks the tenth year of the “STOP EPA CAMPAIGN” and a milestone for the transnational movement since its launch in 2004. On the other hand, 2014 presents yet perhaps the most challenging times for the African Caribbean and Pacific – European Union economic and trade relationship as the Economic Part ...
On July 4th 2014, the Uganda Community Green Radio (UCGR), an initiative of the Uganda National Association for Professional Environmentalists (NAPE) was born. As an extension to the Sustainability School projects supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in the oil rich Albertine region in western Uganda, UCGR provides a much needed platform for communities to express their views freely especially on how they are b ...
Facilitating Participatory Budgeting in Kenya: A User Manual | Published by FAHAMU | June 2014 FAHAMU has developed this manual during the implemention of the participatory budgeting project in Kenya. Participatory budgeting allows citizens to be involved at different levels of decision making on maters related to public interests. ...
Impact on Health and Environment | Study published by RLF East Africa and LHRC | June 2014 Numerous findings reveal that uranium mining has had a notable health risks to mine workers, the environment and to host communities. The brochure covers proceedings and articles of an international conference which has addressed the need to examine uranium mining and its impact on health and environment held in October 20 ...
Issue number 3 | Published by NAPE | May 2014 The purpose of the bulletin is to bring you information regarding the implementation of the Sustainability School programme; its achievements and successes, lessons learnt, good practices and challenges encountered and how they are being overcome. ...
Adaption or Mitigation? | Published by Peace Pen Communications | February 2014 The Big Question for Climate Change. The effects of Climate Change are complex requiring global, regional and national interventions and cannot be handled by a single ministry or government. The challenge of confronting the impacts of climate change is often framed in terms of two potential paths that civilization might take: adaptatio ...
Is “Fair Trade” an Alternative to Aid and Free Trade? | Written by Ndongo Samba Sylla, RLS West Africa office | February 2014 “Trade not Aid”: this used to be the slogan of third-worldist movements in the mid-1960s, an epoch when intellectual figures in the Third World were denouncing the unequal exchange between the capitalist Center and the Periphery. ...
Issue number 2 | Published by NAPE | May 2014 The purpose of the bulletin is to bring you information regarding the implementation of the Sustainability School; its achievements and successes, lessons learnt, good practices and challenges encountered and how they are being overcome. The bulletin is also aimed at giving you an opportunity as a stakeholder and a person concerned with the wellbeing of all Ugandans ri ...