Audax from ANSAF: on winning the ONE Africa Award, making farming sexy, and...
Audax Rukonge is the Executive Secretary of ANSAF, winners of the 2013 ONE Africa Award. He explains how it felt to win the award, and what it will mean for the future of the organisation. We applied...
View ArticleAccountability in Liberia: How the music industry is creating change
Our guest bloggers today are Blair Glencorse, Executive Director of the Accountability Lab and Nora Rahimian, an organiser who uses the power of music to effect change. Hip Co artists performing at the...
View ArticleThis is what you helped us achieve in 2014 – and it’s not over yet!
This year has been BIG for ONE in Africa – but it’s not over yet! Together with our partners, we launched the Do Agric campaign, which saw 19 of Africa’s musical giants record and perform the amazing...
View ArticleMeet ONE Africa Award 2014 finalists: BudgIT
Welcome to the second part of our “getting to know you” blog for the ONE Africa Award finalists. In this post we speak to BudgIT, an NGO specialising in financial transparency. BudgIT Why was your...
View Article15 moments that could change the world in 2015
#Globalcitizens of the world unite – for this year we have an historic world leaders’ summit and a confluence of conferences. There have never been so many gatherings of the great and the good, but...
View ArticleafriLeaks: new platform allows whistleblowers to expose corruption
Click on the image to share it on Facebook Transparency is one of the big issues we campaign on, because cracking down on corruption is essential to tackling extreme poverty. Secret dealings, illicit...
View ArticleLaunch of the High Level Panel Report on illicit financial flows in Africa
Last year, we launched the Trillion Dollar Scandal campaign – highlighting how corruption, money laundering and illegal tax evasion are costing developing countries massive amounts of money that could...
View ArticleHSBC Scandal: why tax havens are fuelling global poverty and how you can help...
The recently released HSBC scandal gives a glimpse of the industrial scale of money held in tax havens. Some of the biggest global banks have let tax evasion, money laundering and corruption happen...
View ArticleNigeria: President elect promises change in first 100 days
Photo: Clara Sanchiz/RNW http://bit.ly/1HPu1Jk “If Nigeria does not kill corruption; corruption will kill Nigeria”: a bold statement made by the President elect in his first formal message after...
View ArticleWill FFD deliver for Africa?
Dr Sipho S. Moyo, ONE Africa Executive Director. The people for whom the upcoming Financing for Development (FFD) Conference matters most will likely never hear a thing about it. They are the young...
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