They all share strong values and passions, as does the Policy Center for the New South: the improvement of public policies, gender equality and equity, so dear to the hearts of Joana Osei-Tutu (Ghana), Chidiogo Akunyili (Nigeria) and Patricia Ahanda (France), the importance of empowering young people and meritocracy as expressed by Youssef Kobo, the Belgian-Moroccan head of the A Seat at the Table. [...] The same year, she was selected as a Fellow of the OHCHR in Geneva for the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024), and by the Policy Center for the New South, for the Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leaders program in Morocco. [...] “We organized the food baskets to connect the farmers to the inhabitants and markets, which led to a 200% to 300% increase of the farmers’ income.” Out of the Eurocentric Box He remembers the Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leaders program fondly, being selected in 2015 to what he describes as one of the “less Eurocentric” leadership programs he has ever attended. [...] However, there is a lot that can be learnt from the flexibility and the resilience of cities in the Global South, and the way they cope with urban issues.” Dubai, in his view, is the perfect example of how one should deconstruct the impact of the Eurocentric perspective on how a “modern city should look like”. [...] After raising 3,000 USD to come to LALA, she harnessed her newfound skill to launch a global campaign for her cause and raised 7,000 USD in only two weeks during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 has been a tough year, with the toll of COVID-19, a coup in Peru, a massacre in Lagos at the height of the #EndSARS movement against police brutality, as well as the death of Miguel da Silv.
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