What is the Leadership We Want?
As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across Africa, millions are coming to realise the importance of strong leadership from our Governments.
The Leadership We Want is a declaration of the leadership we, as Africans, expect from our Governments during the COVID-19 pandemic. Busara Africa has been part of many virtual conversations by African academia, civil society and the private sector where they have expressed in different ways the leadership they want to see from their governments. Download the PDF version below of a summary of what we have heard them say.
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The idea of the ‘The Leadership We Want’ is also inspired by the African Union’s Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want. Popular version.
Join Others to Advocate for the Leadership We Want
On the continent, citizens are coming together in movements to influence and engage their Governments to display The Leadership We Want. If you would like to get involved, here are few of organisations that you can contact:
- Africans Rising. Africans Rising is pan-african movement of people working on Dignity, Justice and Peace. As part of the AU Day, May 25th Celebrations, Africans Rising is mobilising around the theme: “Active Citizenship in the fight against Covid-19”, #RiseForOurLives. Learn more from their website: https://www.africans-rising.org/
- Sauti – The Young African Women’s Feminist Blog: This was launched by the AU Youth Envoy, Aya Chebi. Sauti provides a platform for young African women to showcase the impact of women-led actions to address COVID19 as well as showcase the daily struggles and challenges young women are facing in the evolving COVID-19 pandemic situation. For more information, visit https://auyouthenvoy.org/sauti/
- The Southern Africa Trust: The Trust channels the voices and vibrancy of the vulnerable to influence Government policies within the SADDC Region. During the pandemic, the Southern Africa Trust has, among things, been convening conversations and conducting advocacy to ensure that the response by governments in the SADDC region are inclusive and responsive to marginalised communities. For more information, visit https://www.southernafricatrust.org/
- West African Civil Society (WACSI): WACSI was established to strengthen the capacity of civil society in West Africa. By virtue of its role, it has played an important covening role for CSOs advocacy around the Covid 19. WACSI is also a good resource to learn more about what Civil Society across West Africa is doing to hold their governments to account on the Leadership We Want. To learn more, visit them at https://www.wacsi.org/
- Community Immunity. Community Immunity was created out of the recognition that we live in a world where COVID-19 is evenly distributed but the equal opportunity to fight it is not. It is a collaboration of the Africa Philanthropy Network, Southern Africa Trust and Trust Africa. Among other things, Community Immunity will be supporting research, policy and advocacy efforts aimed at ensuring Government’s policies & programmes are reflective of the Leadership We Want. For more information. Visit https://communityimmunity.org/.
- FEMNET – FEMNET, the African Women’s Development and Communication Network is pan- African, membership feminist network with over 800 members in 46 African countries. https://femnet.org/. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, FEMNET has established the Pan-African Women COVID -19 Online Hub for African women to share their COVID-19 Stories and advocate for more inclusive and gendered responses to the pandemic by our Governments. For more information visit https://panafricanwomencovid19.org/
Join us to develop the skills required
If you would like to work with us to develop the skills and capacity required to display The Leadership We Want, kindly contact us at l.bpobee@busara-africa.com or subscribe to join our Leading Differently in Africa Tribe.
For the video version of the The Leadership We Want, click here : https://bit.ly/2TwxYie