In the media - 2005

• DBSA approved R2,4bn in six months
  14 December 2005, Engineering News
  ... According to the statement, the DBSA's robust financial and knowledge base will be leveraged further to escalate investment in infrastructure and related capacity in line with Government's Contract with the People of South Africa and with NEPAD.
  
  
• Rwanda urges donors to focus their aid on NEPAD programmes
  14 December 2005, ISA Africa
  Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has called on all members of the donor community to focus their aid on those programmes of the receiving nations that are consistent with the NEPAD vision and objectives.
  
  
• Infrastructure vital for economic growth
  9 December 2005, Engineering News
  ... On a broader scale, Nepad – through its African Ministerial Council – is in the process of identifying a high-priority regional water project, which is to be funded by the African Development Bank.
  
  
• 'Water infrastructure essential for economic growth'
  1 December 2005, Engineering News
  ... On a broader scale, Nepad - through its African Ministerial Council - is in the process of identifying a high-priority regional water project, which is to be hosted by the African Development Bank.
  
  
• The case against scientific protectionism
  31 October 2005, SciDev.Net
  Caroline S. Wagner and Calestous Juma argue that scientific cooperation, not competition, must be encouraged as a key ingredient of technological innovation and healthy economies round the globe.
  
  
• Africa not using its agricultural potential
  24 October 2005, SABCNews
  Africa has good agricultural zones, but their potential was not being realised, the chief executive of Nepad's (New partnership for Africa's Development) South African secretariat said today.
  
  
• Nepad develops guidelines to revolutionise science, technology
  19 October 2005, IPPmedia
  The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) has issued a policy document to guide Africa on the implementation of projects to promote Science and Technology programmes.
  
  
• It is time for a new perspective on Africa
  13 October 2005, South Africa The Good news
  ... This is manifested in the continent-wide New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) initiative. From Dakar to Dar es Salaam, from the Egyptian port city of Alexandria to the South African township with a similar sounding name, Alexandra, there is a new spirit of enterprise.
  
  
• African governments back science
  10 October 2005, The Scientist
  The governments of more than 40 African countries attending a meeting in Dakar, Senegal, recently (September 30) pledged their support for a $160 million plan to boost science and technology across the continent.
  
  
• Donor nations pledge support for African science
  3 October 2005, SciDev.Net
  Western nations promised last week to support African efforts to increase scientific capacity using a set of priorities identified by African countries themselves.
  
  
• Africa: ministers call for strong science collaboration
  30 September 2005, SciDev.Net
  The president of Senegal has urged African countries "not to remain passive consumers of new technologies, but to keep in step with the rest of the world in developing an effective research capacity".
  
  
• African energy
  27 September 2005, South Africa The Good news
  ... On energy infrastructure in the African continent, Mkhize said: "PetroSA has the knowledge, skills, technology, and resources to support the challenges of NEPAD energy infrastructure."
  
  
• African science must grasp its window of opportunity
  26 September 2005, SciDev.Net
  A high-level meeting in Senegal later this week provides African states with an opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to integrating science and technology into development plans. The opportunity must not be wasted.
  
  
• Support urged for US$160m plan for African science
  23 September 2005, SciDev.Net
  African and Western governments will next week be asked to support a broad plan to boost science and technology across Africa.
  
  
• SA, Botswana increase science and tech cooperation
  12 August 2005, ITWeb
  South Africa and Botswana are to increase their scientific and technological cooperation in line with a bilateral agreement signed this week.
  
  
• NEPAD establishes southern African Biosciences Hub in South Africa
  8 August 2005, CSIR News
  The Southern African Network for Biosciences (SANBio) was established on Friday 5 August 2005 in Pretoria to strengthen the biosciences capacity in the broader southern African region. SANBio will be a network of technology suppliers from the 12 countries making up the southern African group.
  
  
• Help African science help itself
  27 July 2005, SABCNews
  ...Efforts to increase agricultural production and food security, stem environmental degradation, improve infrastructure and communications, to combat diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/Aids, to end conflicts and wars, and to increase industrial production will require increased support for Africa's capacity to harness science and technology. So says John Mugabe, an advisor on science and technology to the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad), who helped to set up its Forum on Science and Technology for Development.
  
  
• African Union sets up biotechnology advisory panel
  21 July 2005, SciDev.Net
  A panel has been set up to advise the African Union on ways of building capacity to apply and safely handle modern biotechnology.
  
  
• Nepad welcomes G8 support for Africa's agriculture
  11 July 2005, SABCNews
  Professor Richard Mkandawire, the agriculture advisor of New Partnerhip for Africa Development (Nepad), spoke in Johannesburg today and said the G8's support for the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) was to be applauded.
  
  
• G8 leaders give indirect boost for science in Africa
  8 July 2005, SciDev.Net
  The leaders of the world's most industrialised nations (G8) have given their joint backing to the development of "centres of excellence" within science and technology institutions in Africa.
  
  
• G8 leaders must help African science help itself
  1 July 2005, SciDev.Net
  Many African leaders now accept that science and technology have key roles to play in achieving their development goals. The industrialised world must support their efforts to translate this insight into action, says John Mugabe.
  
  
• Science capacity 'imperative' for Africa's development
  11 March 2005, SciDev.Net
  A 17-member international commission set up to review the challenges facing Africa has concluded that science and technology have a critical role to play in promoting economic growth and social progress.
  
  
• Building S&T Capacity with African Partners
  3 February 2005, SciDev.Net
  News reports, transcripts and other material from an international seminar held in London on 31 January and 1 February 2005. The meeting brought together African, British and Canadian policy-makers, researchers and research users to discuss how to collaborate more effectively in building science and technology capacity in Africa.
  
  
• Africa 'needs more world-class research centres'
  1 February 2005, SciDev.Net
  International donors should fund more regional networks of centres of scientific excellence to help countries in Africa learn from each other's experience of carrying out international quality research.