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University of Ghana
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We must re-establish the link between finance and holistic development to drive sustainable development. For Africa, this means using our natural, human, and financial resources, not just to generate wealth, but to reinvest in the future of our people and communities.
Botswana is a shining example of this approach. The country has achieved significant economic and social progress by reinvesting revenues from its diamond industry into education, infrastructure, and healthcare.
This is the blueprint. Leveraging resources to build wealth, reduce inequalities, and transform our economies for the long term. Africa has the potential. Let’s commit to reinvesting in our development!
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Congratulations @pk_mante … great work.
A team from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi (KNUST), led by Professor Priscilla Kolibea Mante of the Department of Pharmacology, has secured $5.1 million from Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited’s Global Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Programme to strengthen climate-resilient health systems through the pharmacy workforce.
The funding will support PharmAdapt, an initiative that seeks to strengthen the capacity of pharmacists to respond to the health effects of climate change. The project will be hosted by KNUST’s Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Professor Mante serves as Team Lead, with Professor Edmund Ekuadzi and Professor Samuel Asare-Nkansah serving as Technical Portfolio Leads.
Learn more here⬇️
knust.edu.gh/news/news-items…
We often talk about work in terms of hours, wages and employment. But what happens outside the work hours?
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Looking forward to facilitating today’s @GETSPA_IAS Southern Africa Reading Group session on @lyn_ossome's “Thinking Care & Social Reproduction from the Third World.” Who sustains households & communities, who benefits, who bears the costs? Welcome all #FeministPoliticalEconomy
Who carries the work of keeping households and communities going?
Tomorrow at 15:00 GMT, we will explore care and social reproduction through Lyn Ossome’s Thinking Care and Social Reproduction from the Third World.
Join here:
shorturl.at/ER50m
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Social policy is more than a safety net. A transformative approach looks at how redistribution, production, social reproduction and social relations shape people's lives.
How do we respond to inequality?
What conditions produce it?
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Social policy can shape redistribution, social institutions, social reproduction, productive opportunities and social relations.
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Join our South African Reading Group for a critical discussion of Lyn Ossome's analysis of the crises of social reproduction in Africa and their implications for transformative social policy.
27 August 2026
15:00 GMT | 17:00 CAT
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GETSPA WEBINAR TODAY | 14:00 GMT
Join @AsensoAgyemangE and moderator @MarionOuma as they examine the legacies, lessons, and possibilities for a more transformative approach to social security.
20 August 2026
14:00 GMT
Register: shorturl.at/6w4n4
Happening today at 14:00 GMT.
Register here: shorturl.at/6w4n4
Join our speaker for the next webinar @AsensoAgyemangE, moderated @MarionOuma as they explore the trajectories, challenges, and possibilities for social security in Africa.
20 August 2026
14:00 GMT
Register: shorturl.at/6w4n4
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Join our speaker for the next webinar @AsensoAgyemangE, moderated @MarionOuma as they explore the trajectories, challenges, and possibilities for social security in Africa.
20 August 2026
14:00 GMT
Register: shorturl.at/6w4n4
#TransformativeSocialPolicy
Join our speaker for the next webinar @AsensoAgyemangE, moderated @MarionOuma as they explore the trajectories, challenges, and possibilities for social security in Africa.
20 August 2026
14:00 GMT
Register: shorturl.at/6w4n4
#TransformativeSocialPolicy
Cooking. Cleaning. Caring for children and older persons. Much of this essential work is unpaid and disproportionately carried out by women.
How should social policy recognise the value of unpaid care work?
#GETSPA #TransformativeSocialPolicy #CareEconomy
What if social policy guaranteed everyone a basic level of income security?
Universal Basic Income (UBI) is increasingly being discussed as a pathway to more inclusive and transformative social policy. This will be a thread 🧵
UBI has the potential to reduce inequality by providing a secure income floor while recognising that everyone has a right to economic security, regardless of employment status.