Regional S&T organizations
African S&T organizations dedicated to a particular region.
ASARECA: Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa
ASARECA is a non-political organization of the National Agricultural Research Institutes (NARIs) of the ten member countries that aims to increase the efficiency of agricultural research in the region. Programmes include the R&D network FoodNet and the Eastern and Central Africa Programme for Agricultural Policy Analysis, ECAPAPA.
14/12/2004
Association of South African Women in Science and Engineering (SA WISE)
SA WISE is a dynamic association for all those who support the idea of strengthening the role of women in science and engineering in South Africa. SA WISE aims to strengthen this role by raising the profile of women scientists and engineers, highlighting and addressing problems faced specifically by women in these fields, and lobbying for the advancement of women in science and engineering. The organisation provides leadership and role models for young people wishing to enter the fields of science and engineering.
7/02/2007
Biosciences eastern and central Africa (BecaNet)
BecaNet is one of NEPAD’s four continent-wide network of centres of excellence. Biosciences eastern and central Africa will support eastern and central African countries to develop and apply bioscience research expertise to produce technologies that help poor farmers to secure their assets, improve their productivity and income and increase market opportunities. Their remit is to enable African scientists to undertake cutting-edge bioscience research targeted at priorities identified by Africa’s national agricultural research systems (NARS), as well as other institutions such as the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA), the East African Community (EAC), the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and NEPAD.
23/05/2007
Centre de recherches régionales sur bananiers et plantains (CRBP)
Avec 22 millions de tonnes produits en 1997 en Afrique sub-saharienne, le plantain et les bananes de consommation locale sont une composante majeure de la sécurité alimentaire régionale. La production repose essentiellement sur des systèmes de production extensifs basés sur le brûlis forestier. Intensifier les systèmes de production pour satisfaire les besoins alimentaires croissants, sans dégrader les réserves forestières à travers une agriculture durable et respectueuse de l'environnement, tels sont les principaux enjeux auxquels le CRBP cherche à répondre.
15/12/2004
Centre du riz pour l’Afrique (ADRAO)
ADRAO ? Le centre du riz pour l'Afrique ? est une association de recherche inter-gouvernementale autonome composée d?états africains. L'ADRAO est aussi l'un des 16 centres internationaux de recherche agricole soutenus par le Groupe consultatif pour la recherche agricole internationale (GCRAI). La mission de l'ADRAO est de contribuer à l'allègement de la pauvreté et à la sécurité alimentaire en Afrique à travers des activités de recherche, développement et partenariat visant à améliorer la productivité et la rentabilité du secteur rizicole tout en veillant à la durabilité du milieu de production.
15/12/2004
Centre international de recherche-développement sur l'élevage en zone sub-humide (CIRDES)
Le CIRDES a pour mandat de mener des activités de recherche-développement pour améliorer la santé des animaux domestiques et accroître leur productivité en vue de satisfaire aux besoins croissant des populations, notamment en viande et lait. Une attention paticvulière est accordée aux maladies parasitaires à transmission vectorielle, à la conservation des ressources génétiques animales, la préservation de l'environnement, la formation des cadres et le transfert de technologies. Les recherches sont menées en étroite collaboration avec les Services Nationaux de Recherche agricole de plusieurs pays de l'Afrique de l'Ouest.
15/12/2004
CGIAR/FARA Sub-Saharan Africa Challenge Program
SSA CP’s purpose is to address the most significant constraints to reviving agriculture in Africa, i.e., failures of agricultural markets, inappropriate policies and natural resource degradation with a new paradigm, Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D). This will foster synergies among disciplines and institutions along with a renewed commitment to change at all levels from farmers to national and international policy makers IAR4D’s major thrusts. The programme will develop technologies for intensifying subsistence oriented farming systems; develop smallholder production systems that are compatible with sound natural resource management; improve the accessibility and efficiency of markets for smallholder and pastoral products; and catalyze the formulation and adoption of policies that will encourage innovation to improve the livelihoods of smallholders and pastoralists. SSA CP Partners include NARS, SROs, FARA, NARIS, CGIAR, advanced research institutes, NGOs, civil society, policy-makers.
5/10/2007
Conseil ouest et centre africain pour la recherche et le développement agricoles (CORAF)
Le CORAF est un cadre de concertation et d'échanges d'informations et d'expériences. Il a pour mission de favoriser les échanges Sud-Sud et la collaboration Nord-Sud en facilitant le partenariat, la formation, l'identification d'objectifs de recherche communs, la mise en oeuvre de projets et l'organisation d'équipes de recherche à vocation sous-régionale. Il est devenu, avec le temps, l'institution sous-régionale représentative des systèmes nationaux de recherche agricole (SNRA) d'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre. Il a aujourd'hui assis sa légitimité, acquis une crédibilité et conforté son audience, se plaçant ainsi au coeur du dispositif de coopération sous-régionale et internationale.
15/12/2004
Institut du Sahel (INSAH)
L'Institut du Sahel est une institution spécialisée du CILSS chargée de la coordination, de l'harmonisation et de la promotion de la recherche scientifique et technique dans les pays du sahel.
15/12/2004
Nelson Mandela Institution (NMI)
The NMI will promote excellence in science and engineering and their applications to foster development in sub-Saharan Africa and narrow the growing scientific and technological gaps between Sub-Saharan Africa and the rest of the world. The two pillars of the Institution will be the African Institute of Science and Technology (AIST) and the Sub-Saharan African Learning Network. AIST will become a world-class institution based on the successful model of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), leading US institutions of excellence in science and engineering, as well as other models of excellence in science and engineering around the world. The Learning Network will enhance broad-based knowledge creation, dissemination and flows across sub-Saharan African countries through continuing education and the African Knowledge Forum.
7/02/2007
Research-inspired Policy and Practice Learning in Ethiopia and the Nile Region (RiPPLE)
ODI’s Water Policy Programme successfully led a bid for the DFID Research Programme Consortium on Water Supply and Sanitation. The consortium, RiPPLE, launched its inception phase in July. This five-year project will focus on issues of financing, delivery and sustainability and the links between sector improvements and pro-poor economic growth. RiPPLE welcomes comments and suggestions on the scope and focus of its work, which should be sent to the Director, Alan Nicol a.nicol@odi.org.uk.
27/10/2006
South-Africa: ComMark Trust
The ComMark Trust is a regional development initiative, working in the South Africa Customs Union region, that aims to reduce poverty by improving the legal, regulatory, policy, institutional and business service frameworks that underpin high-growth commodity sectors. The trust has chosen to concentrate on textiles and apparel, tourism and agribusiness because of the large number of people engaged, and the potential for pro-poor growth. The Trust embraces the ‘making markets work for the poor’ (MMW4P) approach to development, working with government, industry players and business rather than setting up and implementing projects. Where the Trust does engage in markets it works through like-minded, established partners, providing grant funding and technical assistance. The aim is to play a catalytic role so that ComMark’s inevitable exit as a funder will not cause these initiatives to collapse. ComMark Trust was established in 2003 with funding from DFID, and is managed by ECIAfrica, a South African economic development consultancy. It is due to be wound down at the end of 2008.
21/02/2007
Southern Africa Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC)
SARDC is an independent regional information resource centre that is improving the base of knowledge about economic, political, cultural and social developments, and their implications, for governments and policy makers, NGOs, the private sector, regional and international organizations, etc.
15/12/2004
Southern African Network for Biosciences (SANBio)
Biosciences and modern biotechnology in particular, are seen as one of the major engines of growth in the world in fields such as human health, industrial processes and agriculture. Emerging developments in biosciences offer the promise of a new means to address a number of constraints that are limiting productivity and sustainable development in Africa. Mobilising emerging developments in biosciences in Africa requires identifying priority problems and the pathways required for successful technology development and delivery. Success will require human capacity (scientific and technical), access to appropriate laboratory facilities and equipment for key strategic and applied research, and an enabling environment to allow for the responsible use of bioscience directed at African issues.
27/10/2006
Southern African Research and Innovation Management Association (SARIMA)
SARIMA is an association for administrators and managers of the research and innovation enterprise. Its objectives are to promote best practice in management and administration of research and innovation; awareness of the value of a strong research and innovation system and the contribution it can make to economic and social development; appropriate national and institutional policies supporting research and innovation; as well as African science technology and innovation, including addressing the asymmetries in access to, and diffusion of, knowledge between North and South.
7/02/2007
Système d'information scientifique et technique (SIST)
SIST, a project French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, aims to foster African research and expertise, in order to put African science at the service of sustainable development. The project will involve the development of information systems in each partner country, and the creation of expertise to address priority issues. SIST will provide access to scientific information produced in Africa and elsewhere in the South, the diffusion of research, and the formation of scientific teams on common themes.
15/12/2004
The Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) Project
The Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa Project is part of the DTMA Initiative and is supported by the B&MGF to accelerate drought tolerant maize development and deployment in 11 countries in SSA. Maize is life to more than 300 million of Africa’s most vulnerable. It is Africa’s most important cereal food crop. When recurrent droughts in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) ruin harvests, lives and livelihoods are threatened, even destroyed. Experts say that the situation may become even worse as climate change progresses. Developing, distributing and cultivating drought tolerant maize varieties is one highly relevant intervention to reduce vulnerability, food insecurity and the damage to local markets accompanying food aid in SSA.The vision of the Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) Project is to significantly scale-up efforts to reach a greater number of poor farmers in SSA with maize varieties that have increased levels of drought tolerance. Indeed, over the next ten years our ambitious goal is to generate maize varieties with 100% superior drought tolerance; increase productivity under smallholder farmer conditions by 20-30%; and reach 60-75 million farmers in SSA.
30/06/2008
WARA/AROA: West African Research Association / de Recherche Ouest Africaine
WARA / AROA (via African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA) promotes collaboration between American and West African researchers
15/12/2004
West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program (WAAPP)
World Bank press release, 29 March 2007. The World Bank has approved credits totalling US$45 million in support of the first phase of the West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program (WAAPP) in Ghana, Mali and Senegal. The programme will generate and disseminate improved agricultural technology in the participating countries focusing on roots and tubers in Ghana, rice in Mali and cereals in Senegal. The WAAPP is a sub-regional programme shared by all 15 member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and will be coordinated by the Central African Council for Agricultural Research (WECARD/CORAF). The programme will focus on improving export competitiveness, biodiversity, land administration and management, technology diffusion, trade facilitation and market access.
23/05/2007
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