South-South Learning on Social Protection

Social protection is widely recognised as an effective tool to address extreme deprivation and vulnerability and as an important means towards the achievement of a range of Millennium Development Goals. There is a growing interest by the international community in promoting South-South learning for strengthening the capacity of developing coun...

The Africa-Brazil Cooperation Programme on Social Development is the result of a partnership between Brazil’s Ministry of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger (MDS), the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG). The Programme seeks to promo...

The Africa-Brazil Cooperation Programme on Social Protection includes Regional Cooperation as one of its working modalities. This Regional Cooperation was based on the Brazilian Participation in the African Union Regional Experts Meetings between April and June 2008 in Uganda, Egypt and Senegal. These meetings were a preparation for the Minister...

1st Ministerial Conference in Namibia – Strengthening South-South Cooperation

The first African Union Conference of Ministers for Social Development entitled “Towards a Sustainable Social Development Agenda for Africa”, took place in Windhoek, Namibia on 30-31 October. The aim of the event was to realise the go...

On 25-29 August, twenty-five representatives from the governments of Angola, Mozambique, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, and delegates from the African Development Bank, NEPAD and the African Union took part in the Study Tour of the Africa-Brazil Cooperation Programme on Social Development.

Nothing better than ‘in loco’ ascertainment. It was very useful, allowing me to conclude that the fundamental base is ‘education, mobilisation, and permanent sensibilisation of the communities having as centre of attention ‘the Human Value’. Ruth Madalena Mixinge, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Cabinet of Food Security...