Africa

This chapter aligns with UN SDG 3 discussing the initial government mitigation efforts and actions at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic in two different Maasai regions. The chapter highlights the contrasting political environments in Kenya and Tanzania and how each impacted the Indigenous East African community. While acknowledging the significance of modern information and communication technologies, it also offers a glimpse of unique internal culturally relevant messaging strategies adopted within the global governance networks.

The Sustainable Development Goals call for countries to reduce premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through mental health promotion, prevention, and treatment (Target 3.5) and for health services to be made universally available (Target 3.8). This paper is part of a broad, global effort to build the capacity of health systems in high-need settings to expand access to mental health services by integrating those services into primary care. In South Africa, nurses are at the heart of this integration effort, and our goal was to learn how best to support nurses to integrate mental health services into their work.

The review examined the potential of renewable and non-renewable energy resources and the current state of exploitation in Kenya.

Proven and sustainable practices like climate-smart agricultural practices (CSAPs) need to be prioritized and promoted for uptake especially by the farmers to achieve sustainable development. These are capable of contributing to the realization of sustainable development goals through averting food and nutritional insecurity, increasing and sustaining yields that translate into increased incomes and later reduced poverty. This is because CSAPs enable farmers to adapt and mitigate climate change effects.