How Policy and Public Administration can Contribute to National Development
INTRODUCTION: National development can be defined as the development of the people. Public administration represents the system of authority of a government in power, which in many cases make policies that determine a nation's development, this government is therefore saddled with the responsibility of improving the lives of its citizens. The decisions of any government can either improve the lives of its people or bring down the living standards of the people. However, it is import...
The Role of NGOs in advocating the Rights of Women in Africa
INTRODUCTION Article 3(4) of the protocol on the rights of women states that states parties shall adopt and implement appropriate measures to ensure the protection of every woman’s right to respect for her dignity and protection of women from all forms of violence, particularly sexual and verbal violence. What communication and advocacy tools/plan can NGOs use to effectively engage with this protocol in order to ensure the protection and promotion of the right of women in Africa?
African Integration: European Union as a model for deepening African Union?
ABSTRACT This work explores what the African Union (AU) in its African Economic Community objectives can learn from the way to the European Union (EU) Single Market. The AU through its 1991 Abuja Treaty set an objective of having an African Economic Community in Six stages, from Free Trade Area (FTA) in the various Regional Economic Communities (RECs), to a Continental Single Market and a Monetary and Economic Union. Since the AU’s style of achieving integration is through the building bloc...