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WEBShaping South Africa's economic and development future. Improving human security in Africa: ISS Annual Review 2023. The ISS is grateful for support from the members of the ISS Partnership Forum: The Hanns Seidel Foundation, the European Union, the Open Society Foundations and the governments of Denmark, Ireland, …
Flexible community policing is vital to local safety
WEB4 hours ago · In democracies, elements of community policing are a necessary part of policing. Community policing is a flexible concept – more a policing philosophy than a set of specific practices. According to a 2009 study, various practices are ‘commonly associated’ with community policing. These include visible foot patrol, which facilitates direct ...
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WEBWelcome to our website and thank you for subscribing to receive our compelling futures oriented offerings on Africa’s development journey. The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) African Futures and Innovation (AFI) programme provides integrated forecasts of Africa’s development prospects and potential.
African Futures 2050 | ISS Africa
WEBJan 27, 2011 · In this monograph the Institute for Security Studies and the Pardee Center for International Futures provide an extensive analysis of the projected course of African development to 2050. Combining the deep and wide knowledge of Africa within the ISS with extensive use of the IFs modelling system, this discussion goes beyond past work in a ...
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WEB4 days ago · Large-scale future migration will reshape global demographics. Instead of reinforcing borders, African and Western governments should handle unprecedented migration levels by negotiating skilled-worker agreements. ISS Africa organisation which enhances human security by providing authoritative research, expert policy advice and capacity building.
Sub-Saharan Africa - ISS African Futures
WEBDec 13, 2023 · Forecasting of the developmental prospects and potential of the Sub-Saharan African region by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) African Futures and Innovation (AFI) programme. The Current Path forecast is divided into summaries based on demographics, economics, poverty, health/WaSH and climate change/energy. A second section then presents scenario for potential improvements in stability ...
Africa is losing the battle against extreme poverty
WEBJul 13, 2022 · Using the poverty line of US$1.90 a day, Africa’s extreme poverty rate of 43.1% in 1981 was almost equal to the average for the rest of the world’s rate of 42.8%. By 2015 though, Africa’s extreme poverty rate of about 35.5% was 6.8 times the average for the rest of the world (Chart 1). Chart 1: US$1.90 poverty rate for Africa and the rest ...
Democracy crisis or state crisis in Africa? | ISS Africa
WEBAug 12, 2024 · The current crisis of multilateralism on the continent is also a crisis of the African state because a collective of weak states doesn’t translate into strong regional and continental bodies. Democracy needs strong states with viable institutions – something that is lacking in Africa. Governments on the continent do not have the luxury of ...
ISS Today - ISS Africa
WEBISS Today. Exclusive rights to re-publish ISS Today articles have been given to Daily Maverick in South Africa and Premium Times in Nigeria. For media based outside South Africa and Nigeria that want to re-publish articles, or for queries about our re-publishing policy, email us. 18 Sep 2024 / by Karen Allen.
Africa has a rare chance to shape the international order
WEBAug 30, 2022 · Africa’s growing strategic value to global powers has been reinforced by international tensions and economic volatility spurred on by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the COVID-19 fallout. African states have long featured prominently in the foreign policy calculus of the great powers and middle powers in more recent times.