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ONE Africa Award 2011: Promoting women’s rights in Togo
The 2011 ONE Africa Award process is halfway through — and when the call for applications closed on September 16, we had received more than 150 applications! ONE staff have spent the last couple of...
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ONE Africa Award 2011: Demanding the right to health care in Ghana
This piece was originally published on ONE’s Africa Blog. It’s time to announce our second finalist in the 2011 ONE Africa Award. After our piece on a project in Togo, we went on to Accra, Ghana to...
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Fighting poverty with healthy indigenous foods in Zambia
This piece was originally published on our Africa Blog. The 2011 ONE Africa Award finalists continue with the announcement of our third finalist, a model for social entrepreneurship in the agriculture...
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Fighting HIV/AIDS in Mauritius
Last week we marked World AIDS Day, our annual time for reflection and a recognition that the beginning of the end of AIDS is upon us. As we commemorate the strides that have been made in the battle...
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Putting young people in the driving seat of development
This piece was originally published on ONE’s Africa Blog. The Africa Youth Trust (AYT) is the last of our five finalists to reveal before we announce the winner of the 2011 ONE Africa Award! AYT was...
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ONE Africa Award 2011 live webcast
Throughout Africa, there is amazing progress by civil society focused on ending extreme poverty and fostering socio-economic empowerment. These new ideas and exciting approaches are designed and...
View ArticleFAQ: The fuel subsidy protests in Nigeria
A decision by the Nigerian government to halt a hefty fuel subsidy on January 1 prompted one of the largest and most coordinated protests in Nigeria’s history. Though the protests are over, the issues...
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ONE and Save the Children connect Liberian youth with MDG 2.0 movers and shakers
This week, ONE and Save the Children gathered close to 200 Liberians, including several Liberian ONE members, at a popular event in Monrovia, which included an exhibition and panel on transparency and...
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Listen to what the world is telling us
Edith Jibunoh, ONE’s director for multilateral institutions, is reporting from the UN High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda in Bali, Indonesia, where she joined a team of ONE members in...
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The end of the first lap to 2015
Edith Jibunoh and Kerezhi Sebany share some exciting news: The UN High Level Panel included our request for more transparency and accountability in the post-2015 Millennium Development Goals in their...
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Why access to reliable electricity is part of the basic right to life
Edith Jibunoh, Director for Multilateral Institutions at ONE, describes what it was like to grow up without a steady source of electricity during holiday weekends spent in rural Nigeria. This is part...
View ArticleWorld Bank reforms aim to cut extreme poverty in half by 2020
Edith Jibunoh reports on the outcomes of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund meetings, which took place last week in Washington, D.C. This year’s gathering was especially momentous as...
View ArticleAfrican energy and Hans Rosling’s ‘magic washing machine’
For the last week I’ve been in Ethiopia speaking with our Africa Policy Advisory Board, citizens and colleagues about the big development issues that African countries are grappling with. A fair amount...
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Energy poverty: A part of life, a threat to life
Former ONE Global Policy Director Edith Jibunoh shares her experience living in rural Nigeria, where limited access to electricity was both a part of life, and a threat to it, too. A part of life...
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