Climate, Finance, Health & Pandemics
Africa faces significant interconnected challenges, including shrinking fiscal space, climate change impacts, food insecurity, and rising youth unemployment—all exacerbated by declining official development assistance (ODA). Governments across Sub-Saharan Africa are caught in a fiscal trilemma, balancing containing debt, meeting development needs through increased spending, and managing resistance to tax hikes. With high debt-service burdens further weakening resilience, countries struggle to invest in critical human development sectors, intensifying challenges in health, employment, and poverty alleviation. How can we catalyse networked advocacy to unlock financing for a resilient Africa?
Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA) and Pandemic Action Network (PAN) will convene a dynamic discussion on the sidelines of the Skoll World Forum, bringing together leading advocates from Africa and beyond to critically examine financing challenges, experts in fiscal policy, global finance, and development to explore pathways to resilience and leveraging collective influence to drive meaningful change.
