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Can We Avoid Maladaptation At All?
Get PDFThe impact of climate change especially in developing economies has called for heightened global attention to tackle climate change. Yet, amidst the urgency to address climate change, emerging literature shows that existing climate change adaptation strategies have the potential to be counterproductive, further worsening the vulnerability of already fragile and vulnerable communities. Indeed, maladaptation cannot to completely avoided, but it can be substantially minimized. Achieving this requires a strong collaboration between science, policy, and practice interface
Results of Creative and Innovative Research: The Success Story of Pataintel, an Innovative Research-Based e-learning Platform From Tanzania
Get PDFdoc، نموذج المراجعين المفتوحين في إفريقيا ، الوحدة الثالثة
Get PDFWellcome Trust في سياق مشروع ممول من .pdf و .docx تم تطوير وثيقة النموذج هذه ، المتوفرة بتنسيق
.Open Peer Reviewers in Africaلتجربة سلسلة من حلقات العمل المكونة من ثلاثة أجزاء تسمى
تهدف هذه الوثيقة إلى مساعدة الميسرين على قيادة نادي مجلة مراجعة ما قبل الطباعة في سياق الوحدة الثالثة من ورشة العمل - مجموعة شرائح نموذج الوحدة الأولى المتاحة هنا ؛ وحدة عرض الشرائح النموذجية للوحدة الثانية متوفرة هنا. يمكن العثور على تفاصيل حول ورشة العمل ومعلومات حول كيفية تشغيل نسختك الخاصة من ورشة العمل في دليل المدرب
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Little Stars: A low-cost, open-source language and literacy professional development programme for pre-Grade R teachers.
No full textMore information about the Little Stars training programme and materials can be found at: www.wordworks.org.zaThis is the first in a series of five research briefs that explore the impact of Little Stars, a story-based teacher training programme on language and early literacy in 4- and 5-year-olds. This brief focuses on key elements of the programme, and on the design of a study to explore how effective it is.
Early Childhood Development (ECD) teachers have a critical role to play in providing language- and print-rich learning experiences for young children.
There is a need for evidence-based, contextually relevant teacher development programmes and resources that support quality language teaching.
The Little Stars programme was carefully designed to meet the specific needs, characteristics and circumstances of early childhood education in low-resource contexts in South Africa.The project was funded by a British Academy research grant (ECE 190079). The research briefs were funded by the Lancaster University FST Impact Fund
Let's make African research discoverable, together
No full textPresentation held at the Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI) 2023 Annual Forum and Global Research Council (GRC) Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Meeting, which took place from November 13th to 17th in Mombasa, Kenya
Breaking Down Silos Across Infrastructures To Improve The Visibility Of African Research Outputs
No full textThis presentation was delivered at Open Repositories 2023 Conference as part of Panel 7: LIBSENSE Africa - Breaking down silos across infrastructures to improve the visibility of African research outputs
Cervical Cancer Prevention Following A Cascade Strategy: Successes And Challenges
No full textThese activities are part of the project: Cervical Cancer Prevention and Care Cascade for women living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, that has received support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation; grant Advancing Cervical Cancer Screening in HIV-positive women (ACCHIVe) —The Cervical Cancer Prevention and Care Cascade (Award number: IZP8Z0_180245). The research is also supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), National Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institute On Alcohol Abuse And Alcoholism (NIAAA), Fogarty International Center (FIC), National Cancer Institute (NCI), and by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number U01AI069924. We acknowledge the funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skodowska-Curie grant agreement No 801076 and support from the Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students for the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship (ESKAS No. 2019.0741). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the funders.The aim of this project has been to improve women’s access to cervical cancer prevention and care following a cascade strategy in Northern Mozambique. Results to date one dedicate examination room for VIA has been established; biopsies are possible now with analysis in Nampula; and LEEP is available on site now (equipment, health worker trained). Some challenges that should be addressed in future: what happen after 2nd referral? Can having an examination room integrated inside the HIV clinic improve screening and treatment uptake
Enhancing South Africa’s Emerging Digital Technologies’ Innovation Ecosystem
No full textSouth Africa is ranked the top innovating mainland country on the African continent in the 2022 Global Innovation Index (GII) (WIPO, 2023). It has the second highest level of funding towards research and development on the continent (currently at 62% behind Kenya at 69% of GDP) (World Bank, 2022), with over 50% of the R&D funds coming from the government as opposed to foreign actors as in many other African countries. The private sector contributes around 23% of R&D spend (DSI, 2023).
The country has a vibrant start-up culture and a strong history of support for new market entrants through venture capital. One of the reasons the country ranks so highly in the GII is because it has three of the top ten highest valued venture capital (VC) deals on the continent in 2021. A significant number of VC deals in South Africa in recent years have taken place in the FinTech space. For example, JUMO, a South African-based FinTech firm, raised US 55 million the year before (Kene-Okafor, 2021).
JUMO uses artificial intelligence (AI) to power its ‘banking-as-a-service’ platform. AI is one of a suite of emerging digital technologies (EDTs) that are starting to transform the innovation space on the African continent. Other EDTs include blockchain, geographic information systems (GIS), internet-of-things (IoT), and new-generation data analytics. We term these new data analytics tools collectively as X-data. This encompasses big data, open data, user-generated data, and real-time data. As more and more companies start to embrace these EDTs, the innovation ecosystem or facilitatory environment needs to be ready to support them. This is important if South Africa is to achieve its national development goals and remain a leading economic light on the African continent.
This policy brief outlines the results of a study into the status of the EDT innovation ecosystem in South Africa. It is part of a comparative study reviewing the status of the EDT innovation ecosystems in South Africa and Kenya. The policy brief findings are of value to those working in the EDT innovation ecosystem, especially those providing policy support in the areas of education, regulation and finance.Research and Innovation Strengthening in Africa Fund
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Evidence-Based Strategies for Promoting Diversity and Inclusion of Library Services for Students with Visual Impairment in Nigeria: University of Lagos Experience
No full textFour Shades of Whiteness: A History of the White South African Beachgoer
Get PDFI consider four moments in the politics of belonging:
1) naivety, the beaches as a white playground in the 1970s, illustrated by newspaper clippings,
2) challenge, consideration of the “All God’s beaches for all God’s people” anti-apartheid beach protests of the 1980s,
3) disruption, late 1990s/early 2000s loss of place and confrontation with the out-of-place black body—as analyzed in work by Durrheim and Dixon, and
4) counter-attack, reclaiming belonging and criticizing (black) government in Covid-19 beach protests of 2020/21. The various senses of belonging and exclusion enacted on South African beaches poignantly reflect the change that has taken place in South Africa more generally. Although my narrative is chronological, the four moments of naivety, challenge, disruption, and counterattack are coexistent potentialities of the politics of belonging