Climate Change and Economic Development in Africa
Date
2022-03
Authors
Adjaye, John Asafu
Hassan, Rashid Mekki
Azomahou, Théophile T.
Dia, Kamgnia Bernadette
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Abstract
The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) convenes Senior policy seminars to
provide high level African policy makers the opportunity to come together to dialogue
on the results of research conducted by AERC and its affiliates, exchange policy
experiences and interact with the researchers in an atmosphere of peers. The themes
of these seminars are selected based on topicality and contemporary interest to African
policy-making.
AERC Senior policy seminars are forums where policy makers and researchers engage in
uninterrupted deliberations on a set of important issues considered significant to policy
making in Africa. The seminar format insulates the policy makers from pressures related
to their responsibilities and thus, creates an environment for lively professional discourse
on the selected issue. Aside from the specific aims of bringing researchers and policy
makers together, the seminars are directly useful to AERC because they help identify
research imperatives crucial to transforming Africa. They also improve prospects for policy
involvement of the researchers and enhance AERC’s visibility in the policy community.
Consequently, serving to highlight the growing capacity in the region for policy research
and, overall, provide important feedback to AERC for its research and training programmes.