experienced that making resources and opportunities available to local communities is not enough. The Niger Delta in Nigeria is … acute inequalities. This paper seeks to address these issues. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on fieldwork … – quantitative and qualitative surveys – carried out in Nigeria for the past seven years, the paper builds on initiatives and …

that fertility has increased in some countries--Kenya and Cameroon; has remained almost stable in Benin, Ivory Coast and …, the estimates posit a decline in both infant and child mortality in Kenya, Benin and Ivory Coast; infant mortality in … Cameroon; and child mortality in North Sudan and Senegal. Overall mortality levels are high in Western and Central Africa and …