Professor Landry Signé PhD, a 2015 Tutu Fellow, has recently published a pivotal article titled Turning Policy into Action in Africa through the Brookings Institution. In this comprehensive analysis, Landry takes a deep dive into the prevalent challenges hindering effective policy implementation across the African continent and proposes actionable strategies to bridge these implementation gaps.

He identifies several core causes of policy failures in Africa, including ambiguity in interventions, inadequate resources, and complex political dynamics.

To counter these challenges, he explains the need for strong leadership, enhanced institutional capacity, and robust public-private partnerships. By adopting data-driven decision-making processes and fostering regional collaborations, African nations can transform well-intentioned policies into tangible developmental outcomes.

This article is part of the Brookings Institution’s Foresight Africa 2025-2030 series, which offers cutting-edge insights and actionable strategies for Africa’s inclusive and sustainable development in the run-up to 2030.

In a related piece titled Leveraging Africa’s Inner Strength to Realize Its Full Economic Potential, Landry discusses how Africa can harness its diversity, strategic assets, and mitigate emerging challenges to achieve economic prosperity. He highlights the continent’s transition from agriculture and extraction to services, underscoring the importance of leveraging natural resources, human capital, digital innovation, and regional integration to unlock Africa’s full potential.

Landry is a world-renowned and award-winning scholar and leading practitioner in the areas of global political economy, global governance and sustainable development, global business and emerging markets, strategic management and leadership, fragility, state capacity and policy implementation, the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Globalization 4.0, and Africa. He has won more than sixty awards and distinctions from four continents for his academic, policy, business, and leadership accomplishments.

Header image: Screenshot from the Bookings Institution website of the essay, Turning policy into action: Overcoming policy failures and bridging implementation gaps