Former President Benjamin William Mkapa has officially launched the highly anticipated Mwalimu Nyerere Resource Centre at the Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH) in Dar es Salaam. The driver behind the centre is the international well-know lawyer and researcher Prof. Issa Shivji. Since several years Prof. Shivji is member of a team writing a new political biography of the Julius Kambarage Nyerere.
Paper: Current challenges facing the civil society in Kenya
Written by Yves Niyiragira, Executive Director of «fahamu», Kenya | February 2015 This short paper attempts to give a historical background to the birth of the current strong civil society in Kenya and briefly discusses the current threats and opportunities for the Kenyan civil society. It ends with an analysis that believes that the Kenyan civil society will continue being a strong player in the Kenyan society fo ...
Newsletter: SEATINI-Uganda
Published by SEATINI-Uganda | February 2015 This issue of the newsletter deals with climate change and food security. ...
Newsletter: Sustainability School Bulletin
Published by NAPE | December 2014 The new Sustainability School Bulletin of NAPE has been dedicated to the "Community Green Radio Project" which has been born out of the Sustainability School programme. ...
Newsletter: SEATINI Uganda
Published by SEATINI-Uganda | November / December 2014 This issue covers topics like enhancement of agricultural marketing and workshops on trade negotiations. ...
Hurra Green – Uganda Community Green Radio launched
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 ...
Manual: Facilitating Participatory Budgeting in Kenya
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. ...
Study: Uranium Mining
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 ...