Climate Change and Economic Development in Africa
Date
2022
Authors
Adjaye, John Asafu
Hassan, Rashid Mekki
Ouédraogo, Mahamady
Dia, Kamgnia Bernadette
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Publisher
African Economic Research Consortium
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 programs.
Exchange of country-specific experiences is particularly important in these seminars. The
policy makers are normally identified for their interest in policy research issues and the
level of seniority of the policy makers is generally right, leading to detailed discussions.
Researchers are reasonably well balanced between Anglophone and Francophone, and
attendance by Francophone policy makers is always encouraged.