Our mission is to engage people in providing valuable, sustainable and feasible solutions to problems of public concern.
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Welcome to the website of solutions to problems of public concern in Africa. We have posted a series of problems in Sudan, Chad and South Africa, that require creative solutions from citizens. We invite you to publish your recommendations, and check the "SMART Method of Public Policy" to see how we build awareness and create leverage to your ides. If you would like to see other problems posted on this website, then fill out the online form, from the "Raise a problem" link. We will soon launch our participation program to cover the rest of the countries!
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The latest problems published on the website, that require your solutions:
| Chad: What is your solution to help the refugees uprooted by conflict in western Sudan's Darfur region and eastern Chad? |
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  The UN Refugee Agency is battling the elements, massive logistical obstacles and daunting security challenges to help hundreds of thousands of people uprooted by conflict in western Sudan's Darfur region and eastern Chad.
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| Sudan: What is your solution to reduce the proportion of people who suffer from extreme poverty and hunger, by 2015? |
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 Sudan has good agricultural potential. It has diverse climates and soils and adequate water supplies through rainfall, rivers and underground water. Sudan also has huge animal wealth estimated at about 130 million heads of cattle, sheep, goats and camels10 with adequate and variable quantities of animal feed.
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| South Africa: What is your solution to halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS? |
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 One of the targets of Millennium Development Goal #6 is to halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS, by 2015. The MDG Country Report 2005 shows that although there was an almost exponential increase in HIV prevalence levels between 1990 and 1998 there is a gradual stabilization and slowing down of HIV prevalence increases with statistically significant growth approximately every second year.
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