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How citizens in Tanzania and DRC are getting better health care and education...
Our Open Budgets Save Lives campaign is really picking up speed now with over 50,000 people adding their voice. Earlier this year we asked what you thought were the continent’s most important...
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Yvonne Chaka Chaka: ‘This is personal’
Our guest blogger today is Yvonne Chaka Chaka – Musician, UNICEF & Rollback Malaria Goodwill Ambassador, and Millennium Development Goal Envoy. Follow Yvonne on Twitter. As UNICEF’s Goodwill...
View ArticleOver 50,000 Africans call for leaders to open health budgets and save lives
I am excited to let you know that so far 58,411 people have joined the Open Budgets Save Lives campaign. Together we are calling for African leaders to spend 15% of public budgets on health and prevent...
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The result of Ghana’s elections? ‘Ghana has won!’
ONE members from Ghana, ONE Africa staff and members of the District Citizens Monitoring Committee coming together in Accra to discuss transparency in Ghana. Photo: ONE The streets of Accra were...
View ArticleKeeping eyes on the public purse in Malawi
The perennial problems that dog the Malawi health sector are petrifying, and almost catastrophic. The K50 billion that was allocated to the health ministry in the 2013/14 budget last July represents...
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And the winner of the 2013 ONE Africa Award is… ANSAF of Tanzania!
(L-R) ONE CEO Michael Elliott, co-founder Bono, Africa Director Dr. Sipho Moyo and Board Chairman Tom Freston present Executive Secretary of ANSAF Audax Rukonge with the 2013 ONE Africa Award. Photo:...
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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...
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How unlocking open data could transform civil society in Africa
Nefina is a trader at the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange, where open data means farmers and buyers can track prices of coffee in real time. Photo: ONE This guest post is by Daniel Ben-Horin, Founder and...
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David’s desert race for ONE: heat, humidity and 49km to run on Day 2
David Barnard is a member of ONE’s Africa Policy Advisory Board and the Vice-President, Africa, of TechSoup. From 14-18 November he’s taking on an incredible challenge: the Ultra AFRICA Race in Burkina...
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Accountability 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...
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This 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...
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Meet 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...
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15 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...
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afriLeaks: 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...
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Launch 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...
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HSBC 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...
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Nigeria: 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...
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Will 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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