How can I beat “The Rise of Africa” campaign?

Question

I am trying to accomplish the mission "The Rise of Africa" but I failed already 3 times because, at the end of period (2045), HDI index is not increased over requested target.

I am new to the game, can you please explain me how can I manage to finish that mission?

Answer 1

After approximately ten tries, this is what I've finally got:

1. • NA: 2 agents, welfare, enviro offices
   • SA: 2 agents, enviro office
2. • NA: 1 agent, water management, medical welfare, political office
   • SA: 1 agent, water management, welfare office, political office
3. • NA: 1 agent, security assistance, educational enrollment, enh. water infrastructure, medical welfare
   • SA: 1 agent, security assistance, transport, medical welfare, drought
4. • NA: 2 agents, job-sharing, drought, storm, security assistance, educational enrollment, medical welfare
   • SA: 1 agent, storm, transport, medical welfare, impr. drought, enh. water
5. • NA: transport, impr. drought, impr. storm, baby boom, security assistance, educational enrollment (I stopped job-sharing)
   • SA: 1 agent, educational enrollment, transport efficiency, medical welfare, job-sharing, grow commerce, grow industry

End result: 0.70 HDI for SA, 0.73 HDI for NA. I think I had easy mode enabled.

A note: should you still lose, it may be faster to load the autosave and change the cards in the last turn until things work, rather than starting every time from scratch.