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CHANGEMUDANÇA is the product of a partnership between the Southern Africa Trust and the African Monitor. Both organizations are proud to collaborate in bringing you this exciting new publication. It reflects their shared vision for social actors in southern Africa and the African continent to collaborate in transforming the extreme levels of poverty and inequality in our region into equitable growth and shared well-being.
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View the launch issue
Publishers
Southern Africa Trust
In partnership with
African Monitor
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Southern Africa's liberation project is not yet done
A message from the Southern Africa Trust and African Monitor
More than 100 million people in southern Africa live in abject poverty. Southern Africa's liberation project is not yet done until this situation is changed. Responding successfully to this challenge is everyone’s business: governments, businesses, and civil society organisations alike. As political and economic integration in southern Africa steadily advances, we also need to advance the region’s social integration agenda. New approaches to address the regional dimensions of poverty at national levels and the poverty dimensions of regional integration are required to make regional integration work for the poor. Our region needs equitable integration to transform the high levels of inequality within and between the countries in southern Africa.
We are proud to introduce ChangeMudança, a new quarterly magazine to share innovative ways of overcoming poverty through regional integration. It will review policies, research, practical initiatives and programmes in the southern African region, and profile individuals and groups that are driving change in our region for the better. We have set out to package and present challenging ideas in an accessible and interesting way, so as to facilitate dialogue and provide an analytical framework with which to understand poverty in the region. ChangeMudança presents a tremendous opportunity for governments, civil society organisations and businesses to link country-level activities, processes, and policies with a regional agenda – as a contribution towards developing a shared vision for the development of our region and learning about the best strategies to achieve that vision.
With the active participation of all sectors, ChangeMudança will profile examples of best practice through case studies on innovation and provoke debate between people with different perspectives. It marks a conscious drive to widen participation in the regional integration agenda, to ensure that the voices of the poor and marginalised have a better say, and to create opportunities for more engagement between the different social sectors. In presenting to you this launch issue, we therefore invite you to make your contribution to ChangeMudança for a better future in our region.
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Denis Kadima
Chairperson, Southern Africa Trust
The Southern Africa Trust is an independent, non-profit agency that supports deeper and wider regional engagement to overcome poverty in southern Africa.
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Archbishop Njongo Ndungane
Founder and President of African Monitor
African Monitor is an independent catalyst that monitors development funding commitments, delivery and impact on the grassroots, and brings strong additional African voices to the development agenda.
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In the launch issue
November 2009 - January 2010
Country focus: Malawi
Integration in the spotlight
Talking to Dr Tomaz Salomão
Tackling SADC's transport challenge
The hazards of cross-border travel
Water, infrastructure and climate change
Relevant policies need the people's input
Civil society
Investor profile
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