KANSIIME ONESMUS

REDUCING ECONOMIC LOSS OF DISASTERS:   kansmus@gmail.com Economic losses from disasters in low and middle-income countries are undermining efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and deprive governments of funds to spend on health, education, social protection and other important public needs. The world has had an enormous physiographic diversity and vast areal expanse though being devastated by the hostility and predatory by natives on the environment. The world has a fairly identical story on the unfriendliness to environment. When combined, such geographical variability with constant anthropogenic interference, people of any country get vulnerable to human made and natural hazards. Though Susceptibility to and Vulnerability from disasters differs from one community to another as is subject to the different levels of climatic wars and terrain. The destiny of disasters is an eternal one and so should be our battle. The climate change question has a c...

QUARANTINE, ECONOMY, ROPES AND RATS kansmus@gmail.com Shouldn’t I think that I am writing about suicide today? Then why the rope and the rats? Shouldn’t I think that I am writing anthrax today? Then why the quarantine? Or shouldn’t I think that I am writing poverty today? Then why the economy? I also do not know. Before my final punctuation, I shall have known what I am writing about. Today morning I forced myself from the tempting friendliness of my warm bed. I did not yawn like on other cold mornings. I stretched in the falling morning dew and shouted words in the title of this writing as I thought about what to ink down about it. Having travelled upcountry due to family demand, the imminent surging of the cost of living in the city (I am not shy to state but yes I mean food prices), the popular belief that it is ‘good to die’ from home and the countrywide need for social distancing, I am in the one-meter distance company of my young brother Crescent who does no...

At the fall of 365: kansmus@gmail.com Some of you think us started to understand after reading confessions of an economic hitman. My start was different. Instead I listened to the confessions of a traditional old man. In our rural home since 1998 when I was just 24 #months old preciously put as two years, there lived an octogenarian man, a one named Eliphaz by an Anglican missionary stophel in the year of the rain that fell the village’s remaining spiritual groove: the oak tree. He lived with us till he was a nonagenarian in 2009. We didn’t know his exact age but his tales of having been born in the season of the scotching sun and a drought that killed the only surviving camel in the Ankole Shaza of Sheema, we stretched down the historical and time series lane and established in approximation that he was 90 years old in 2009. Having been someone who knew he had lived for long and to have seen a one John Speke, Eliphaz thought good mathematical sequence would count 200 years fo...

But why can't anyone invent their own currency!!! Overtime, even after the invention and operation of real money, people in crisis such as war have invented items or modes of exchange such as the cigarette currency in the Prisoner of the War Camp. This has disguised a market situation and aided trade but however there is increasing debate on whether these invented means of payments and medium of exchange can be regarded as mere money, near money or no money at all but tools that aid barter trade. The debate has for long been tainted with the popular premise of likening everything used in exchange to money and the arguments become more grounded when such means of payment have a monetary value, are durable, portable and divisible. We need to delve inconsequentially, analyze critically and explicitly, into the details that guide the arguments that will either qualify or disqualify invented currencies as money. "The difficult question as to the best definition of money has been...

SAFE CIVIC SPACES FOR YOUTHS kansmus@gmail.com As a world, we are bound to draw attention to a well thought fundamental collection of cultural and legal issues surrounding youth. "safe spaces for youth" should be a mantra even though it carries sheer talk in most countries that have direly mastered the divisive art of deprivation of the youths' right to safe spaces which include public, civic, physical and digital spaces. More emphatically to note is that having youth in a country is no reason to celebrate them but rather having the will to give the youth safe spaces. Lest, let the civic society carryout pro-youth campaigns, the nonviolent crusades that brand the quest to quench the thirst birthed by the deficiency of safe spaces and the uncertainty immersing the safe spaces platforms. The consideration of youths gives the countries where peace, economic dynamism, social justice and tolerance for the youth has not been prioritized to indemnify the youth ...

impact driven philanthropy Simplified: kansmus@gmail.com There are various types of philanthropy. This paper though will explain the impact driven philanthropy, its definition and its principles. Impact-driven philanthropy is a personal journey that offers many paths for exploration and discovery.   To further simplify the work of you our dear reader, this philanthropy will be defined in context. Impact‐driven philanthropy is the practice of investing our time, interests, talents, and resources thoughtfully and intentionally to advance meaningful change. It is one intended to leverage our potentials and result into potential impact on society. This drive for impact can be invested in any field be it education, medical care among others. However, impact driven philanthropy is further driven by unique principles. As we rhyme with the principles and practices below, we make it possible to lean into harder issues and find solutions that make a lasting difference. There ar...

FAILURE IN ACCOUNTABILITY IS A FAILURE OF GOVERNANCE kansmus@gmail.com T here are four pillars of good governance that build, restore, and main public trust which are Transparency, accessibility, responsiveness and accountability. Accountability is a dear issue and is in consonance with the pro national reconstruction philosophy crusade and institutional rearticulation. Devoid of the norm of accountability, African states are still haggling with self created dilemma of failure to smelt a strong iron of elements to decolonise Africa from the horrors of colonialism and the nightmares of neocolonialism. Accountability circumscribes the Democratic values with a function of ingenuity and a normative governance framework that my wananchi granny from the hills of mombokolo will proudly call "good". After independence, and in tandem the Democratic consolidation of uprooting autocratic reigns, accountability could be a switch to the "Africa's third liberation...