Break-out session 4: Group 2

Chair: Oonsie Biggs Rapporteur: Jenny Clover Transition Team member: Tanya Abrahamse

Participants:

 Agboola, Julius Ibukun   Berefo, Eric Ekosse, Georges-Ivo       Kaniki, Andrew Leluma, Matooane Massaquoi, Joseph Moloney, Coleen Olowoyo, Joshua Sweijd, Neville

Focused on 3 Questions

1.

What is our vision – what should we achieve in next 10 yrs to be a big success?

2.

What should African FE component look like?

incl who should be involved, how funded?

3.

Where do we start? What are next steps?

1. What is our vision?

What should we achieve in next 10 yrs to be a big success?

Be much better organized and less fragmented

    Influence global FE research agenda and questions Have capacity to respond to global research opportunities (not wait to be asked as partners) More African countries are part of the Belmont Forum so that scientists can participate independently (not via SA) Management approaches that address problems in contextually relevant way for Africa

1.

What is our vision CONTD

Active, inclusive and collaborative networking across amongst African global change researchers (natural & social sciences)

     Mobility of staff and students across Africa Easier access to visas (government MoUs) Achieve and increase alliance among the GCB Capacity development and building 100% increase in numbers of Masters, PhD and post docs in the field (and more concrete metrics like this)

1.

What is our vision CONTD

Coordinated research in Africa, that is delivering knowledge, achieving reach, being used and resulting in tangible development benefits

  Coordinated institutional support to national governments around inputs into global governance processes and commitments Long-term regional data sets, that are coordinated, relevant and accessible to inform decision making irt sustainability issues   Strong, integrated platform for access to data, information # of tools/guides – nationally approved, endorsed  impact

2.

What should African component look like?

Network, node, etc? Who should be involved? How should it be funded?

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Coordination centres in different regions

African input into global FE agenda Facilitate networking amongst regional researchers Link to African Academy of Sciences?

Requires institutional funding – eg IUGS; ADB; UNDP; WB; SIDA  

Enable establishment of 5(?) internationally leading FE-related research institutes across the region

Could be linked across continent and to international network of institutes (eg CGIAR system)   Could be independent Centres of Excellence eg at universities Funded by national gov & international donors

3. Where do we start?

What are next steps? How do we make it happen?

A more coordinated, reflexive and synthesized African input into the research agenda

 Co-develop/draft research questions – synthesize existing (policy makers; researchers, civil society)   Expanded AfricanNESS (+SES) 2013 Coordinated institutional support to national governments around inputs into global governance processes and commitments

Audit / register of researchers at this meeting & beyond

3. Where do we start? CONTD

Each person from this meeting engage with each other and wider networks

    Take key discussion prints from African FE: DST/NRF – GC African Academy of Sciences (Dec mtg) Engage with other institutions and identify relevant regional partners (UNDP in Addis)

Develop African strategy for supporting and empowering emerging and young scientists,

   incl access to funding, links to existing networks and new initiatives, exchanges Develop platform for emerging scientists Neville willing to take first stab?