In Arabic: NGO Self-assessment through a SWOT exercise

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Bwnoit Kasa (UNFPA) has a paper titled ‘ Population and Ageing in Africa: a Policy Dilemma? ’ (15 pages). He concludes that population ageing is often accompanied by persistent poverty, and that African governments have no budget planned for supporting the growing group of older people in Africa. Find a link to the report on the website of The Pension & Development Network , a not-for-profit organization specialized in the development of micro pension provisions: www.pensiondevelopment.org Keep in touch with the issue through Pension Watch at www.globalaging.org and Helpage International at www.helpage.org , currently helping older people caught up in the Somalia drought.

There is currently a lot of attention in the global news for the Ebola virus. Yet the people most at risk often lack the essential knowledge, and the means, to protect themselves adequately. Our colleague Shine writes from Monrovia, Liberia: “I am sure you have heard about the Ebola outbreak in some parts of West Africa, affecting Guinea, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in particular. It’s the worst outbreak ever recorded. Over 1,100 people have died and the World Health Organization has declared it a global health emergency.

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