Scoping study

The purpose of the study is to establish a sustainability science landscape view in relation to Africa’s contextual concerns, African ways of knowing (epistemology and ontology) and schools of thought, and state of sustainability science funding and use this to inform what FEACHL niche, focus and strategies. The envisaged strategies include building an African community of practice, building synergies between Africa regional hubs and clusters, and contributing to global knowledge and discourses on sustainability science based on African perspectives and realities.

The objectives of the scoping study are:

1. To produce a substantive, rigorous analysis of the Sustainability Science Landscape in Africa that provides baseline information on the existing and absent sciences, voices, priorities, structural support, (African and African-international) networks, types of resources, and MEL approaches.
2. To develop a strategic document to guide the work of the AHLC in (i) connecting the sustainability science research community within Africa to Advance sustainability in Africa, (ii) developing mechanisms that advance leadership for Sustainability Science in Africa (e.g., association roadmap, capacity development programme, MEL framework and science clusters, and (iii) advancing and advocating for African participation and priorities at the global level.

The intentions of the scoping study are consistent with the insights generated from a transformations to a sustainability research network, which was led from Africa, namely: (i) contextual profiling and sharing narratives, (ii) reflection on existing learning in nexus issues contexts, (iii) deliberating the conceptual foundations research, and (iv) deliberating methodological approaches.

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