Decolonising Methodologies to Sustainability in Africa In the Global South, ‘coloniality’ has long been associated with political rule over subordinated countries. Struggles for ‘decoloniality’ have evolved from the undoing of colonial rule to the even more fundamental challenge of freeing knowledge, practice, and culture from deeper worldwide concentrations of incumbent power. In keeping with the more […]
UKRI, together with our COP26 delivery partners for climate adaptation and resilience in the UK and overseas, will hold a series of online events starting in June. This is to mark the run-up to the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow in November 2021. Collaborative international efforts The aim […]
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), New Climate Institute Whether the global climate can be stabilised at a warming of 1.5°C depends on whether the goals and measures of climate policy by 2030 are sufficiently ambitious. Failure to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement would ultimately undermine the achievement of just […]
The African Research and Impact Network (ARIN) is inviting you to participate in a virtual Tomorrow’s cities’ African regional Urban DRR Research and Policy workshop co-organized by Nairobi Risk Hub and UNDRR to be held on Thursday 31st March 2022 between 2:00p.m-4:00 p.m. East African Times (EAT). ARIN is the regional DRR research and policy dialogue convener for Nairobi City Risk Hub under the Tomorrow’s Cities Hub funded by the UKRI’ […]
Background Global challenges are multi-faceted and demand an interdisciplinary research approach. Methodological framing including models, people, tools plays a central role in achieving interdisciplinary research. This is because methodological framing defines who to engage with research, the tools to be applied, target impact of the research among others. Yet experiences from most ECRs in Africa […]
Background Think Tanks are a central part of Africa’s knowledge system. They generate objective and cutting-edge research and connects Africa to best international research practices and partnerships for SDGs. However, in the last decade, Africa has witnessed erosion of some of the hitherto key knowledge producing think tanks due to several factors including organisational failures, […]
Background African Research Institutions face uphill task in writing competitive grant proposals that can compete with the developed countries’ submissions. Leadership of research projects operating in Africa has traditionally been dominated by researchers from developed countries as PIs with those from Africa often take the role of CO-Is or research assistants. This is partly due […]
Background Given the complexity and emergent characteristics of innovations in emerging economies such as Kenya, there is a need for models that can measure the dynamic nature of innovations in these countries. In an attempt to measure and champion relevant policy engagements on innovations within institutions while promoting practical skills necessary to create innovations that […]
Background The challenges facing Africa’s research systems are complex. There are no straight fixes to them. Instead, multiple pathways and interpretations exist. But how can we appreciate this multiplicity of options and ensure that no one is left behind in the efforts to transform the continent’s research systems? This edition will focus on unpacking various […]
Background Globally, we are all affected by climate change, but vulnerable communities bear a disproportionate burden. Africa is experiencing temperature and rainfall above normal variability(6th IPCC report), which manifest in the local communities in terms of loss of livelihoods, poverty, famines, prolong droughts, food and water insecurity, biodiversity loss, and humanitarian challenges among others. Governments […]
Background African institutions and researchers are part of several research partnerships. Some of these partnerships are based on short term specific projects while others are based on specific research ideas. The rapidly changing research environment and funding landscape has left little space for researchers to reflect on what models of partnerships have worked and how […]
Background Science-policy interface remains a major area of attention in Africa where investment in research remains relatively low due to the ‘perceived’’ weak connection between research, policy, and practice. There have been thoughts that strengthening innovation as well as knowledge translation and user sensitizing are pathways that can help strengthen research-policy and practice linkages. This […]
