Priorities

Our vision is an Africa that is free of poverty and well integrated into the global knowledge economy. It is this vision that underpins our programmes and projects.

Our goals are:

• to enable Africa to harness and apply science, technology and related innovations to eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development; and
• to ensure that Africa contributes to the global pool of scientific knowledge and technological innovations.

Our programmes and projects will be implemented through regional, continental and international cooperation in science and technology. They focus on the following:

• Improving infrastructure or facilities for R&D and promote sharing of such facilities;
• Creating institutional and policy arrangements that enable African countries to mobilize and share their scarce resources to conduct science and generate technological innovations;
• Strengthening the continent’s human skills base by increasing the number of scientists, technicians and engineers.
• Improving the quality and intensity of regional cooperation
• Building a strong political and civil society constituency for science and technology in Africa.
• Improving the quality of science, technology and innovation policies of African countries through processes that promote sharing of experiences and policy learning.
• Strengthening the capacity of regional economic bodies to mainstream science and technology into their sectoral programmes and projects.
• Promoting the application of science and technology to achieve specific MDGs; and
• Promoting innovative ways and means of financing science and technology in Africa.