How can collaboration ensure public spaces are designed and managed for all in African cities? A series of reflections on urban public spaces with support from the Heinrich Böll Foundation. By Western Cape Economic Development Partnership
It’s Time for the G7 to deliver on Africa Under Germany’s presidency, the 2022 G7 Leaders’ Summit invited Senegal, which holds the rotating chair of the African Union (AU), Argentina, India, Indonesia and South Africa. South African researcher Mikatekiso Kubay explains how the G7 can be genuine development partners to Africa. By Mikatekiso Kubayi
Bouncing Back and Developing Elasticity During the COVID-19 Pandemic The work of our partners Ubuntu Women and Sisterhood Movement was recently featured in Feminist Africa's latest journal, African Women's Lives in the Time of a Pandemic. Here they document their tireless work addressing the many challenges that the pandemic presented in the lives of rural communities of the Western Cape. We are proud to have supported some of this work. By Vainola Makan and Wendy Pekeur
Through a Gendered Lens: South Africa’s Covid Pandemic Article South Africa, like the rest of the world, emerged from the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic battered and bruised on many fronts. By Vivienne Mentor-Lalu
Organising in The Time of Pandemic: 9 Lessons It is 2020... The Covid-19 Pandemic disrupts life as we have come to know it. It has dramatic effects on all aspects of socio-policital and economic systems. pdf
EU-Africa relations in times of Covid-19 Dossier The uneven distribution of Covid-19 vaccines is one of the main discussion points at EU-African Union summit on 17-18 February 2022. Two years into the pandemic, about 75% of the EU’s population has already received at least one vaccine dose, while on the African continent only 16% have been jabbed.
Why won’t Germany support a Covid-19 vaccine waiver? Anna Cavazzini answers this and more ahead of the EU-AU summit Interview Four civil society representatives ask MEP Anna Cavazzini (Greens/EFA) about the Covid-19 vaccine patent waiver, as the wane of some countries’ Omicron winters poses a new threat to global vaccine equity.
EU-Africa relations in times of Covid-19 Dossier The uneven distribution of Covid-19 vaccines is one of the main discussion points at EU-Africa Union summit on 17-18 February 2022. Two years into the pandemic, about 75% of the EU’s population has already received at least one vaccine dose, while on the African continent only 16% has been jabbed. The sustained pandemic not only affects the public health conditions but also African economies, societies and political stability. This dossier sheds light on the impacts of Covid-19 on African countries and offers ways forward for a green, inclusive and feminist recovery.
How Non-Governmental Shelters Have Had to Adapt to a National State of Disaster In the news HBF's new research reveals the Department of Social Development’s dependence on NGO shelters during Covid-19, and their tendency not to provide adequate support and funding despite this reliance, writes the Daily Maverick. By Jen Thorpe (Smout)
Webinar Recording: Adapting to Disaster: Domestic Violence Shelters and South Africa’s COVID-19 Lockdown Video On 2 December 2021, the Heinrich Böll Foundation launched its second research brief associated to its “Care and Support in a Time of Epidemic" research project. The project is dedicated to better understanding how COVID-19, and the subsequent implementation of lockdown in South Africa on 27 March 2020 has impacted on domestic violence in the country.
