Abstract
This study focused on the variables that influence global and continental initiatives. The main research questions addressed by this study are: What are the global and continental initiatives to facilitate sustainable development? What are the key mechanisms that drive sustainable development initiatives on the continent? The idea of sustainability was originally coined in forestry, where it means never harvesting more than what the forest yields in new growth or development. Sustainability is based on the original idea that environmental and socioeconomic resources can be used more appropriately. The idea of sustainable development, which is proposed to accommodate financial, social, and natural progression, started in the mid-1980s. Sustainable development refers to improvement that addresses the issues of the present without compromising the capacity of future generations to address their particular issues. The focus of sustainable development is the result of global interventions to help alleviate environmental and socioeconomic problems. This study contextualises the variables that influence global and continental sustainability and the key mechanisms that drive sustainable development initiatives on the continent. This study recommends that governments must establish international treaties to develop unique support strategies and programmes for sustainable development. To improve governance, African countries need to place more emphasis on decentralisation and devolution. Strategic interventions aimed at strengthening chambers of commerce and industries, trade associations, and chambers of agriculture, as well as providing market and investment information, will play a significant role in strengthening the sector. Capacity building will need to focus on assisting universities through a special programme to conduct strategic planning and management. Globalisation – the growing international integration of markets for goods, service, capital, technology, skills, information, knowledge, and culture – is altering the world landscape in fundamental ways. African countries ought to seize their dynamic entrepreneurial spirit to take up new rising technologies and adapt them for prosperity. The findings of the study generally indicated that seizing innovation’s potential and transforming it into development, occupations, enhanced wellbeing, and prosperity remains a test for some nations in Africa.
M.Com. (Public Management, Governance and Public Policy)