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       |acronym=Chapter 2. Rendering Africa more resilient, sustainable, and better prepared for COVID-analogous pandemics: Proposals from across seven African countries                  
       |logo= Ch2_Rendering_Africa_more_resilient.png 
       |chapter_authors=Laouris, Yiannis, Norma RA Romm, Abiba Abdallah, Bill Graham Osei Akomea, Melvis Kimbi, Abel Mavura, Apollo Murigi, Abdulkarim Taraja, and Rahab Wairimu
       |book_title=COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives across Africa
       |book_editor=Alain L. Fymat, A.L., Romm, Norma R.A., and Kapalanga, Joachim
       |book_publisher= Tellwell Talent
       |publisher_location=Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
       |pages=36-61
       |year=2022
       |link=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358041514
}}


==Abstract==
This chapter details a number of proposals for rendering African countries more resilient, sustainable and better prepared for COVID-19 and similar future pandemics. The proposals were solicited from a group of participants from various countries in Africa, who previously (2016) participated in week-long face-to-face dialogues as part of a project entitled “Re-inventing democracy in the digital age” funded by the United Nations Democracy Fund and organized by the Futures Worlds Center. Many of the youth pioneers (aged 18-30) who participated in the 2016 sessions subsequently continued to liaise with one another via various virtual forums. In August 2021, spearheaded by the Future Worlds Center, we decided to set a “triggering question” for these participants to reflect upon and engage around with each other, with the aim of writing a chapter on responses to COVID-type pandemics, to share with audiences. The triggering question to kindle Ideas/proposals was: “What actions/reforms/ policies should our country take in order to become more resilient, sustainable and better prepared for future crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic?” Volunteer participants were invited to share their Ideas regarding practical and forward-looking (visionary) responses to this question. They were invited in the first instance to share Ideas on a virtual platform called IdeaPrism in preparation for a video conference using Zoom in which clarifications of the Ideas were solicited from the Idea-originators, by others asking questions. The clarification questions were mainly around actual or potential ways of actioning the Ideas within and across countries. This resulted in a rich array of concrete proposals, which we detail in the chapter, along with an overarching synthesis.

==Citation==
Laouris, Y., Romm, N. R., Abdallah, A., Akomea, B. G. O., Kimbi, M., Mavura, A., ... & Wairimu, R. Chapter Two Rendering Africa more resilient, sustainable, and better prepared for COVID-analogous pandemics: Proposals from across seven African countries.

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