Lessons From Dakar – How Peer Learning and Capacity Strengthening of CSOs Impacts Africa’s Development

[Nigeria Health Watch] At the Café De Rome Hotel, 350 meters from the Presidential Palace in Dakar, Senegal, academics, and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) from across Africa congregated at the Association for Research on Civil Society in Africa (AROCSA) conference. Throughout the two-day conference, they discussed how their work impacts the continent’s development, particularly, the various ways CSOs safeguard and support human and environmental health in Africa.