The IIJD is an independent, not-for-profit international organization that actively advocates tackling the root causes of poverty by addressing systemic weaknesses, reforming institutions of governance, building capacity and empowering communities. With programs and initiatives based on participation, empowerment and sustainability, we treat not just the symptoms of poverty, underdevelopment, and insecurity, but confront their underlying causes. Read more....
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Describing poverty and making clear its causes are two very different tasks. Unfortunately, most descriptions of the Africa poverty written by international development experts often offer little guidance for action: “[they] do not say what is a cause and what is an effect, they do not distinguish between proximate and deep causes, they do not say what is a variable and what is a parameter in the environment in which the poor reside.” Not only do descriptions of poverty provide an inapplicable and inadequate picture of the pathways that lead to that state of affairs, an enormous literature draws on description to arrive directly at important policy prescriptions. “Even the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and the plans the United Nations identified for meeting them reflect this methodological stance.”
 
In this section of the website, you will have access to the IIJD newsletter, Event Findings presenting the priorities for the future and how to tackle the root causes of Africa Development Crisis, the African Prospect, Academic and research papers, and Recommended Readings.
 
 
Despite decades of development programs, millions of Africans are still living in extreme poverty. International development efforts have too long employed relief-based strategies or short term gains while the underlying causes of poverty and other challenges we face are unaddressed: Consequently, efforts to eradicate extreme poverty in Africa have failed to make lasting impacts
The first International Conference on the State of Affairs of Africa hosted by the IIJD Inc. brought together experts on international justice and development to explore the root causes of Africa's development crisis and its persistent poverty. The conference focused on building a consensus and setting priorities on how to tackle and resolve these problems to effectively “make poverty history.” Click here for More...
 
 
The IIJD is not an ordinary news media company; through its Newsletter, the IIJD constantly monitors pivotal events in or on Africa in which development stands at a crossroad, offers analysis of the situations to the international community, and periodically responds to current events in Africa that we think have the potential to destabilize or help the state or region in which they occur. The IIJD publishes a newsletter every two weeks to alert and update the general public about pressing African justice and development issues. The newsletter is distributed both on our website and through an e-mail mailing list. In addition to enlightening the public on African issues, the newsletter is also an opportunity for the IIJD to offer its own inputs, perspectives, and analysis on critical issues, thereby remaining relevant and current. Click here for More...
 
 
 
The IIJD periodically responds to current events in Africa that we feel have the potential to destabilize the state or region in which they occur. We call upon local, national, and international actors to meet the continent’s most pressing needs and to find sustainable solutions to the continent’s most unforgivable tragedies. Please click here for our most recent campaigns.
 
 
The African Prospect is a journal published by the International Institute for Justice and Development Inc. (IIJD) designed to foster increased discussion of the underlying causes of poverty, and enhance the debate of possible solutions. Click here for More...
 
 
The Academic and research papers help maintain an increased discussion on global challenges, provide the opportunity to research learn and understand the root causes of the challenges Africa faces, raise awareness, and promote understanding. The papers, provide new perspectives about current development crisis in the Africa, and foster further study and research solutions to effectively tackle their underlying causes.
Committed to fostering an academic dialogue that draws on diverse, original research and first hand experience, the academic and research papers also enhance the debate of possible solutions. we believe that a high level of diversity in contributions is vital to the search for fresh and innovative solutions to the root causes of development crisis and poverty in Africa. Click here for More...
 
 
This section addresses the needs several friends of the IIJD and those interested in learning more about the historical fiction, contemporary African issues and Colonial legacy of the continent of Africa. Here, please find more details about the Books and Novels as well as the web links. Click here for More...
  
 
   
 
 
 
   
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