Research Africa

Research-Africa

http://www.research-africa.net/

metaLAB was responsible for putting together a consortium and securing significant funding from DFID to improve African science and technology human capacity across the board by providing services to meet the practical and professional needs of principal researchers and consultants, young researchers, research and innovation administrators and managers.

The original vision for Research Africa service was as a viable and practical approach to strengthening pan-African research support services in ways that will ultimately yield tangible contributions, generated in Africa, to the goal of poverty alleviation.

The consorium partners are SARIMA (Southern African Research and Innovation Managers Association), Research Research and The Association of Commonwealth Universities are working to develop

Research Africa delivers an integrated portfolio of paper based and digital information services to individuals and institutions across every part of Africa – in ways that do not exclude even the most fragile and poorly funded research environment.

Research Africa will work if it enables both individual researchers and research institutions to find better ways to network, collaborate and contribute to formulating a research agenda that contributes directly to poverty alleviation in Africa - at a price that offers a clear value for money proposition.