The world is changing. And Africa must move with the times.

Chaos in the trade environment, the dismemberment of USAID, the slow-grinding hobbling of multilateralism, and the evaporation of massive expectations built up over the last decade for green finance and other novel development finance tools are but a few of the signs that these changes are not a flash in the pan. Tectonic plates are indeed shifting.

For activists, scholars, analysts, and civil society actors working in Africa, there is an urgent need to re-centre the issues of domestic governance. Without highly improved governance within countries, the prospect of resilience in the face of such global tumult is essentially nil.

Building resilience in Africa requires a whole society approach to outcomes-accountability and resource-use integrity.

Join us on the sidelines of the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings 2025 to brainstorm on new strategies to deepen the on-the-ground work of transforming the quality of governance in Africa.