Tobacco Control in Africa - TCA

Bloomberg Initiative 2014: 4 grants to DRC, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda.

The Bloomberg Initiative has funded 4 projects in Africa since the beginning of 2014, in DRC ($80K), Kenya ($60K), Uganda ($18K), Ghana ($20K) for a total of $178K. All are linked to support passing legislation or implementing existing regulations.

FCTC 2013 Africa Shadow Reports

FCTC 'Shadow Reports" provide a real picture of the situation in each country. As you'll see implementation is often a problem.

How much money does ANCE (Togo) need?

Reading an updated version (9/23/2013) of an interview with the Executive Director of the Alliance Nationale des Consommateurs et de l'Environnement (ANCE), Mr Ebeh Kodjo, who is also Secretary of ATCA, and an FCA board member (until december 31, 2013) the main problem seems to be funding. Nothing new? Except that ANCE has been one of the groups that received significant funding (the last CTFK grant awarded in Dec 2012 was for $152K+ while 54K had been awarded in January 2012) so how much is now needed, what happened to the previous grants, is any detailed budget explaining where the money went-goes available? Those questions are especially important when the Gates Foundation is looking for the next organization to coordinate their tobacco control efforts in Africa and ATCA could be a candidate.

Gambia: Tobacco Control in Gambia

This opinion in The Point.

Shadow Reports about the implementation of the FCTC in Africa

We recently mentioned the "shadow report" recently published about Tanzania but there are 7 other African shadow reports published by FCA. Here are the links (pdf)

• Benin
• Botswana
• Burundi
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Togo