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Reflections from AGI's Staff Development Week 2011
BLOG: AGI's, Director of Strategy and Development Andy Ratcliffe reflects on our annual Staff Development Week which allowed our teams based in Liberia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone to return to London and share the lessons from their experience and hear the views of outside experts. ...
USAID announces new partnership with the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative
The USAID has announced its support for the AGI Sierra Leone programme in order to promote broad-based economic growth by improving government support to investors and smallholder farmers. ...
Development Drums Podcast: Tony Blair on AGI
AGI Patron Tony Blair talks to Owen Barder about leadership, governance and the work of AGI in episode 27 of the development podcast Development Drums...
Tony Blair: Africa needs stronger governments to emerge from poverty
AGI founder and patron tells Guardian in Freetown: "Aid is important and it works and we should be really proud of what we as a country have done in aid, but aid is one half; the other half is governance. For most of these countries, their problems are every bit as much governance, as much as the lack or availability of aid."...
Tony Blair praises the remarkable pace of private sector development during his latest visit to Freetown
Tony Blair, Founder of the Africa Governance Initiative, was in Sierra Leone this week to review the progress of AGI’s Sierra Leone programme ...
Blair Elumelu Fellowship Programme: Supporting African Governments to Advance Economic Development
The Africa Governance Initiative (AGI) and The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) are pleased to announce the signing ceremony of the Blair Elumelu Fellowship Programme, supporting transformational governments to advance the economic development of Africa....
President Johnson Sirleaf and Tony Blair meet to discuss progress of AGI’s Liberia programme
The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf met with Tony Blair, Founder and Patron of the Africa Governance Initiative (AGI) today as part of her two-day visit to the UK, to discuss the ongoing work of AGI’s capacity development programme with the Ministry of State in Liberia. ...
Pioneering Development in Rwanda
BLOG: AGI's Kate Gross reflects on her recent trip to Rwanda and how the country is taking charge of its own development and transforming itself into modern, connected service economy in the process....
Strengthening Government in Post Conflict Countries
Speaking to Bill Eagle at the Voice of America, AGI's Paul Skidmore says with practical advice and support, fragile states can make government work for the poor....
Free Healthcare in Sierra Leone: More Than Just a Slogan
BLOG: After her latest trip to Freetown, AGI Chief Executive Kate Gross writes about Sierra Leone's Free Healthcare Initiative...
