Gender inequality in Malawi is associated with deep-rooted inequitable laws, norms, and practices, hampering women and girls' access to opportunities, resources, and power. Unequal gender roles and unequal power relations ...
Strengthening Gender and Inclusivity in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) highlights the contextual factors driving disparities in STI in Namibia. Women and girls, in particular adolescent girls continue to experience ...
Strengthening Gender and Inclusivity in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) highlights factors driving gender and inclusivity disparities in Botswana, along with options and strategies for addressing disparity gaps: ...
The purpose of this rapid review is to identify gender and inclusivity strategies, frameworks and initiatives undertaken by the Science Granting Council Initiative (SGCI) during the first phase of the SGCI, and their effects ...
Association of African Universities; African Academy of Sciences(2021)
The project aims to fortify the capability of Science Granting Councils in research excellence (particularly the knowledge and use of tools such as Research Quality Plus framework); research ethics, emerging scientific ...
Association of African Universities; African Academy of Sciences(2021)
The Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI) seeks to strengthen the research management capacity of Science Granting Councils (SGCs) from 15 sub-Saharan African countries through training, technical support and ...
The paper presents evidence of opportunities, successes and challenges of technology transfer and commercialization using contemporary case studies derived from different countries. It distils lessons from a continental ...
The European Working Group on Empowering the Excluded (1999) explains social inclusion as the development of capacity and opportunity to play a full role in society, including economic, social, psychological and political. ...
A rice husk gasification process has been developed in order to generate rural electricity. Electricity is neither accessible nor affordable for many Malawians. A pilot project has been proposed for some test villages.
This system works to monitor, track and report on achievement of Science Granting Council Initiative (SGCI) programme objectives. It can be accessed from everywhere and serves 15 council Member Country secretariats, with ...
The Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) framework provides guidance and tools for strengthening management and programming in Science Granting Councils (SGC) initiatives. This detailed paper analyzes the MEL methodology, ...
This poster/one-pager describes the work of the Science Granting Councils initiatives through four themes: research management; use of indicators; private and public partnerships; and, building networks.
This review included a systematic in-depth assessment of the science granting council initiative (SGCI) communication tools, platforms and approaches. Recommendations to enhance outreach strategy and communications include ...
There is a need to promote collaboration between information technology (IT) teams and monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) teams within science granting councils (SGC) so that IT teams are enabled to support the ...
A review of literature on the average financing for research and development (R&D) in African countries is about 0.5% of GDP. The recommended target is 1% of GDP for Science Granting Councils (SGC). By this estimate all ...
Knowledge management (KM) strategy guides the coordinating role that Science Granting Councils (SGC) play in ensuring that knowledge management systems are operating optimally. This includes ensuring that financial resources ...
The goal of the Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI) is to strengthen the capacities of the Science Granting Councils in sub-Saharan Africa to manage research, design and monitor research programs, and formulate and ...
This one-day online validation workshop was designed to give a clearer understanding of research/industry collaborations, and to provide recommendations for establishing effective and sustainable research/industry partnerships ...
The scoping study summarizes key models that have been implemented in different countries to strengthen research and industry collaboration, especially between the private and public sectors in Africa. Based on case studies, ...
This integrative literature review critiques and synthesizes secondary data from the Science Granting Councils (SGC) and Collaborating Technical Agencies (CTAs) on communication and knowledge management best practices, and ...