APF BLOG

by Mohamed Okash It’s the end of an era. In 2025, the age of development aid (“foreign aid”), as Africa has known it, is ending, and it will have profound implications for the future of many people who live throughout the continent.  The OECD  projects a 9% to 17% drop in global official development assistance (ODA) this year – on top of a 9% cut in aid in 2024.  Historically the largest recipient, Africa will be hit hardest: sub-Saharan Africa could lose up to 28% of bilater

by Mohamed Okash Every generation inherits institutions that were designed for the challenges of a different era. Many of Africa’s public, private, and civil organizations were built in times of stability, when predictability, hierarchy, and linear progress defined success. Yet the world we now inhabit is anything but stable. It is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous; the VUCA world we often describe in theory but rarely design for in practice. In this reality, the qu

by Suneet Pansare Source: The Fifth Sacred Thing We live in a world built on institutions. Hospitals heal us. Schools teach us. Governments protect us. Corporations employ us. These systems have organised our lives so deeply that they feel inevitable. We are born into them, move through them, and measure success by their standards. They give shape to the modern world, but also limit it. What if they are not the only way? What if the futures worth imagining are not about repai

by Suneet Pansare AI Generated In recent years, sustainability has become a staple of organizational strategy, but often with a caveat. It is increasingly pegged to ROI and financial returns, a metric that dominates decision-making tables. While this makes sense in a world driven by quarterly reports and shareholder expectations, it deeply frustrates me. Because sustainability, at its core, is not a short-term pursuit, it is a long-term game of survival and stewardship. When