South Africa’s science and technology funding agency, the National Research Foundation (NRF), has this week (Sunday to Thursday) been hosting the Science Granting Councils Initiative in Sub-Saharan Africa (SGCI) Annual Forum. Established in March 2015, this unites the NRF’s counterparts in 17 African countries. The member States are Botswana, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. South Africa is not a member of the SGCI but, through the NRF, helps fund it. The other non-member funders of the initiative are Canada’s International Development Research Centre, the German Research Foundation, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
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