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Cameroon aspires to emergence by 2035. Since 2009, it has drawn up reference documents such as the “Vision 2035” and the “Strategy Document for Growth and Employment”, which include growth goals such as poverty reduction, economic development, industrialization, democracy and unity. In addition, in the document of the Intended Determined Contribution to the National Plan submitted to the United Nations, the country undertakes to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions up to 32% by 2035, with...

The study purposed to explore school heads and teachers' views on students' dropout in peri-urban Zanzibar with the aim of understanding the factors influencing dropout of children in secondary schools from school heads' and teachers' perspective, strategies adopted by schools to address dropout and to identify challenges faced by head of schools in returning out-of-school children in Zanzibar.Employing a qualitative approach, the study used case study design with purposive sampling in...

Background: The Nelson Mandela-Fidel Castro Collaboration programme (NMFCMC) between South Africa and Cuba was established in 1996. South African students, undergo five years of medical training in Cuba and finish the final eighteen months of training in South Africa. These students experience academic difficulties on their return. Methods: All twelve NMFCMC students enrolled at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 2015 participated in this study. Data were elicited using focus group...

The main purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of ICT integration on effective teaching and learning process in public secondary schools found in Misungwi district. The study employed mixed research approach and the convergent parallel design for data collection. The study targeted 8087 respondents which comprised 7760 students, 24 school heads, 300 secondary school teachers and 3 district education officers and used 100 respondents as a sample size. The study employed...

With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the transition from face-to-face teaching to online teaching was enforced in higher education institutions. The study illuminates the lecturer’s reflections on practices adopted whilst embarking on the trajectory to move teaching an undergraduate research module to online platforms amid COVID-19 lockdowns at a South African University of Technology. An auto-ethnographic qualitative approach was adopted, with personal reflections as...

Climate change represents one of the gravest challenges to sustainability. Reinforcing adaptation measures is beneficial for mitigating its negative effects. Effective adaptation to climate change is knowledge intensive, and benefits from diverse forms of knowledge. Therefore, several climate adaptation approaches are being considered as the world strives to attain the thirteenth sustainable development goal (SDG 13). Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) are increasingly gaining policy focus...

In Mali, the annual temperature, rainfall, and evapotranspiration are high variables.Their distributions are unevenly spread from north to south.Climate change strengthens to increase air temperature and evapotranspiration.It also increases the intense rainstorms and the risk of drought associated heat waves.Drought is considered a natural disaster among all hydrologic extremes.It causes severe damage to the environment, agriculture, and livelihoods relying on water resources.The present...

The tourism industry has come under intense scrutiny of late in southern Africa and the world for its contribution to the vulnerability of host communities to the impacts of climate variability and change. The increased frequency of extreme droughts that saw Cape Town and other parts of South Africa going for a prolonged period of water shortages require new thinking and approach to water resources management to achieve sustainability. The aim of this study was to examine how the tourism and...

This chapter examined the effectiveness of inclusive teaching in an African context. Entrenched in international research findings on effective inclusive teaching, this qualitative study drew on a sample of 21 Zimbabwean mainstream primary school teachers. Semi-structured individual interviews and non-participant observations were used to collect data. A constant comparative approach of organizing data with continuous adjustment was utilised throughout the analysis. Teachers displayed...

The study aimed to assess the relationship between in-service teachers' professional development and instructional quality in secondary schools in the Gedeo zone in Ethiopia. The study used a quantitative research approach with descriptive and co-relational survey designs to attain its goal. A combination of stratified random and purposive techniques was employed to select samples. Quantitative data were collected using the standard Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), while...

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: With increasing pressure on our training hospitals, we undertook to ascertain whether our clinical orthopaedic surgery training platform is providing adequate surgical exposure, both in diversity and the level of trainee participation METHODS: The orthopaedic surgery database was interrogated for theatre procedures logged for the 12-month period 1 January to 31 December 2018. Each theatre case was assessed as to the level of trainee participation, whether it was...

A strategic environmental assessment (SEA) of the economic, social, and environmental benefits and risks is an essential precursor to any major infrastructural and industrial project. The Karoo Basin of South Africa is thought to contain significant resources of shale gas. A SEA was commissioned by the Department of Environmental Affairs to help formulate regulations governing the exploration for shale gas, the extraction of any viable resources, and the decommissioning of any wells. Here,...

Africa is among the global continents that are more vulnerable to the detrimental effects of climate change. Numerous stakeholders in Africa are negatively impacted by climate change, and among them are small scale farmers whose livelihoods depend on subsistence farming. Primary and secondary data sources were used to examine farmers’ perceptions on local climate change adaptation measures. The study examined how farmers perceive climate change adaptation measures in their region.. The...

There has been a rise of households that are female-headed in Zimbabwe caused by socio-economic and environmental challenges bedevilling the country. The study utilisedsecondary data sources inclusive of desktop research and a historical approach which uses the analysis of documents. The researchers measured the strategies used by these female-headed households in Zimbabwe against the following indicators (1) factors affecting female-headed households during the climate change, (2)...

Climate change is a complex problem, threatening the flourishing and existence of humanity globally. While its negative effects have been felt globally, households in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), especially those dependent on land-based livelihoods, have been agonisingly affected. Yet, farmers have been able to obtain their livelihoods through the skilful application of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS). The acknowledgment of IKS in enabling farmers in SSA to grow their food has galvanised...

Climate change has severely compromised the livelihoods of people that are overwhelmingly dependent on the natural environment, particularly those in developing countries that are usually the least able to cope with the associated social and environmental risks (Pant, The Journal of Agriculture and Environment, Future of Food: Journal on Food, Agriculture and Society 5:9–19, 2012; Evans et al., Glob Environ Chang 25:69–75, 2014; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2014; Poudel et al., Sustainability 9:641, 2017).