Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Strengthening Research Partnerships in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Africa-Europe Research and Innovation Cooperation
Author: Andrew CherryPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319699296
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume is concerned with the evolution and achievements of cooperation in research and innovation between Africa and Europe, and points to the need for more diversified funding and finance mechanisms, and for novel models of collaboration to attract new actors and innovative ideas. It reflects on the political, economic, diplomatic and scientific rationale for cooperation, while also examining practical developments, illustrated with examples, in the fields of food security, health, and climate change. The need to mobilise scientific knowledge and to ensure equality and fairness in the cooperation are recurrent themes. Africa-Europe Cooperation in Research and Innovation is essential reading for policy makers and researchers in international relations and science diplomacy.
Sub-Saharan African Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Research
Author: Andreas BlomPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464807019
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
This book analyzes Africa's current performance in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) research, as well as future trends. It looks at Africa's research performance over a decade, what it means for the continent's development and how it can benefit the growing number of young people who leave university each year looking for jobs. The book focuses on research output and citation impact, important indicators of the strength of a region's research enterprise. These indicators are correlated with the region's long-term development and important drivers of economic success. Moreover, research is a key ingredient for quality higher education. The research performance of these regions is compared to that of South Africa, Malaysia, and Vietnam; the latter two countries had a comparable research base to the SSA regions at the beginning of the period of analysis.
Preventing and Mitigating AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309090180
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa continues to affect all facets of life throughout the subcontinent. Deaths related to AIDS have driven down the life expectancy rate of residents in Zambia, Kenya, and Uganda with far-reaching implications. This book details the current state of the AIDS epidemic in Africa and what is known about the behaviors that contribute to the transmission of the HIV infection. It lays out what research is needed and what is necessary to design more effective prevention programs.
The Transnationally Partnered University
Author: P. KoehnPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137481757
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Analyzing the growing importance of the transnational higher education landscape and the role of African universities, Koehn and Obamba show how transnational partnerships among universities can inform policy, strengthen synergies between knowledge producers and knowledge users, and advance sustainable-development practice.
Plant Virology in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Jacqueline d'A. HughesPublisher: IITA
ISBN: 9789781312144
Category : Plant viruses
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Towards Impact and Resilience
Author: J. Oloka-OnyangoPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443867284
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
This book, consisting of 17 chapters, focuses on clarifying the challenges, issues, and priorities of Agricultural Education and Training (AET) in sub-Saharan Africa, and provides suggestions for practical solutions that can help guide organisations interested in furthering AET for agricultural development on the continent. It discusses the African context within which a transformed AET system needs to be located; analyses African and international experiences that are relevant to identified AET needs and challenges; dissects AET models that may hold important lessons; and addresses the main critical issues that will impact upon AET in sub-Saharan Africa. The concluding chapter synthesises the ideas, experiences, and evidence from the preceding chapters in order to highlight critical issues for success as well as possible solutions. The book is uniquely positioned to add to a call to action on AET, to pull together state-of-the-art knowledge from within and outside sub-Saharan Africa, and to advance “out of the box” thinking about the principles, values and character of AET for development, with an emphasis on the models that can help to cultivate leaders and change-makers at all levels of the agricultural sector.
Towards Effective Public-private Partnerships in Research and Innovation
Author: Banji Oyelaran-OyeyinkaPublisher:
ISBN: 9789966030986
Category : Public-private sector cooperation
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Unequal Partners
Author: Fabrice JaumontPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137593482
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
This book offers a nuanced analysis of a US-led foundation initiative of uncommon ambition, featuring seven foundations with a shared commitment to strengthen capacity in higher education in Sub-Saharan African universities. The book examines the conditions under which philanthropy can be effective, the impasses that foundations often face, and the novel context in which philanthropy operates today. This study therefore assesses the shifting grounds on which higher education globally is positioned and the role of global philanthropy within these changing contexts. This is especially important in a moment where higher education is once again recognized as a driver of development and income growth, where knowledge economies requiring additional levels of education are displacing economies predicated on manufacturing, and in a context where higher education itself appears increasingly precarious and under dramatic pressures to adapt to new conditions.
Research Ethics in Africa
Author: Mariana KrugerPublisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN: 1920689303
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The aim of this book is to provide research ethics committee members with a resource that focuses on research ethics issues in Africa. The authors are currently active in various aspects of research ethics in Africa and the majority have been trained in the past by either the Fogarty International Center or Europe and Developing Countries Clinical Trial Partnership (EDCTP) sponsored bioethics training programmes .
