Civic society warns of shrinking space

CIVIC society in Africa is facing shrinking spaces to raise domestic resources, as private sector investment is being crowded out, it emerged at the recent African Development Bank’s (AfDB) annual meetings.

The shrinking space, according to civic society, is because governments are not playing their corrective role in terms of domestic resource mobilisation to provide an enabling environment for private funding.

This is happening as civic society in Africa is one of the leading sectors fighting against poverty.

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