15th September 2015

The Data Revolution; Leave No Women Behind.

“The revolution and women’s liberation go together. We do not talk of women’s emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human […]
13th September 2015
Nokia QT Hackathon

Three Imperatives for the Data Revolution in Africa

We also call for a data revolution for sustainable development, with a new international initiative to improve the quality of statistics and information available to people and governments. […]
27th August 2015

Media Briefing: the First National Forum on Harnessing the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development

The 1st National Forum on Harnessing the Data revolution on Sustainable Development will be taking place on the 28-29th of August. The theme “Transformation through Evidence” […]
20th May 2015

The Maputo Protocol in Financing for Development

Women all over the world account for 50% of the population but still have not achieved true equality 20 years since the Beijing Conference. For example […]
23rd March 2015

We Are Here.

Local Development Research Institute is a nonprofit African think-tank that supports African Union member states in the pursuit of equitable local development on a continent where […]
10th January 2015

Challenges to Agenda 2063 – Financing Africa’s Priorities

Agenda 2063 is Africa’s pre-eminent framework for progress over the next 50 years. It will be implemented through a series of medium term plans with the […]