Break-out session 4: Group 4

Chair: Ayieko Monica Rapporteur: Martin Orla Transition Team member: Jakob Rhyner

Participants:

  Dziba, Luthando Enow, Achuo A       Francis, Julius Hewitson, Bruce Matose, Frank Maure, Genito Amos Midgley, Guy Thombiano, Adjima

Future Earth should develop strong regional “nodes”:

What does that mean?

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Proposed two models:

Committee model

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Constitute a committee that will represent the interest of Africa.

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Example: WCRP Host model

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Appoint institution(s) to host direct the activities of African node Similar to NRF and ANR hosting Belmont Forum secretariat

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How do we make that happen?

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Committee model African countries should nominate qualified potential members.

Global secretariat should select the committee members taking into consideration research and regional representation

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Coordnating Model Put a call and interested institutions should apply.

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3. How do we fund it?

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Three options:

Hosting countries Membership fee Global Secretariat of Future Earth should take the responsibility of looking for funders

Future Earth should develop strong regional “nodes”:

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4. Where do we start? What are the next steps?

Participants of this workshop should consulted going forward, e.g. for comments on draft call for nominations for regional committee (terms of reference, etc.) African groups that are not represented here (i.e. industries) should be consulted in further Future Earth programmes, such as the Africa conference next year.

Other International organizations should be consulted through the global secretariat: African can learn from them, they can learn from Africa

Future Earth should develop strong regional “nodes”:

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6 . What would the vision for a Future Earth African node be? What would it have to achieve in the next 10 years in order to be considered a success story?

Increasing African ownership • Communicate priority research to the government and other funding bodies Scientific goal: establish path to economic development in Africa Strengthen the local activities, not competing with them • Coordinating and networking in Africa Changing the mind-set towards achieving the future earth we want • Citizens, decision makers, institutional frameworks Financial resources (local and international) Capacity building • More that just giving bursaries • • Experimental knowledge Projects should be driven from the continent • • A new generation of leadership in place Grand challenge initiatives (i.e. Earth system Modelling)