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Debt can be an important mechanism for governments to invest in development and infrastructure, or respond to crises. However, over the past decade the public debt portfolio of many countries in Africa has ballooned to unsustainable levels, to the detriment of spending on essential public services. Parliaments have a critical role to play in providing oversight of government budgeting, borrowing, and spending, and serving as a check on the executive branch.
Claire Everhart serves as a Director of Relationships for the new U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, where she liaises with financial institutions across Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa to increase access to finance through the leveraging of local private capital. Prior to working for the DFC, Claire served in a similar role with USAID's Development Credit Authority.
Citizens of Africa's most populous country will go to the polls in April to elect their leaders for the fourth time since Nigeria's transition to civilian government in 1998-99. NDI is conducting an international observation mission to analyze the electoral process before, during and after the elections. NDI will issue periodic election updates based on the mission's observations and findings.
Arnold Tsunga is the country director for NDI in Zimbabwe. He is a highly skilled lawyer and human rights defender with more than 30 years of experience and expertise in law, politics, public administration and policy, governance, human rights, and the rule of law. Before joining NDI, he served for 12 years as the Africa Director of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), based in South Africa. Mr.