Localising a Global Agenda: How Priests, Pastors, Imams and Ordinary People Can Mobilise to Enhance the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa

ISBN-13: 9789789548552 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 262 str.

Evaristus Bassey

Opis

ABOUT THE BOOK... This book is about discovering the global significance of local action and being more by doing the little that is focused and strategic. Highlighting the ordinary person's ability to work within hard to reach communities, this book argues that the quest to transform the world is in everybody's sphere of control especially those aligned with not for profit entities and faith based communities. The 2030 agenda are presented as a lifetime opportunity for leaders of communities to change the story of a continent so blessed and yet so full of contradictions. And in this book, everyone has power, because power is seen as the ability to act. ABOUT THE AUTHOR The author is a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Calabar, born in Oban Town, Nigeria. He has over fifteen years of development experience. He was trained at Ss Peter and Paul Major Seminary, Bodija, Ibadan, where he obtained a Bachelor's degree in Religious Studies from the University of Ibadan. He holds a Masters' degree in Literary Studies from the University of Calabar and a Master's in Governance and Development Policy from CERIS, Brussels. He has also acquired a certificate in Human Resources for Health from Harvard, Boston and in Leadership from Notre Dame University, Indiana, apart from numerous workshops he has attended. He has also published a collection of essays, a novel and a collection of short stories.