AERC Annual Report 2014/2015
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Date
2015
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AERC
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The current fiscal year marked a significant period for AERC as the Consortium entered the final year of the strategy period 2010–2015. It provided an opportunity to take stock of our achievements and to continue to restructure in a bid to achieve the goals we set in the strategic plan. The year also witnessed remarkable efforts channelled towards developing the AERC Strategic Plan 2015–2020. During this period, efforts were geared towards broadening our geographical outreach and increasing the participation of women in AERC research and training activities in line with the current strategy’s ambitions to increase the presence of under-represented countries and groups. The annual Senior Policy Seminar and the 2014 Biannual Research Workshops were successfully convened. The June 2014 biannual workshop was held in Accra, Ghana, from 1 to 5 June 2014 with a total of 93 researchers – of whom 20 were Collaborative PhD Programme (CPP) students – in attendance. In total, there were 16 female participants. The December 2014 biannual workshop was held from 30 November to 4 December 2014 in Lusaka, Zambia, with a total of 91 researchers (of whom 12 were CPP students). There were 13 women (15%) among the participants. Plenary sessions marking the beginning of the biannual research workshops are renowned vehicles for updating researchers and policy makers on frontier topics in the economics discipline—with a bearing on economic development in Africa. The 39th Plenary Session of the biannual research workshop on Public Finance: Tax and Expenditure Reforms in Africa was officially opened by Dr. Henry A.W. Wampah.