AERC Annual Report 2019/2020
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Date
2020
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AERC
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Abstract
The year 2019/2020 marks the fifth and final year of implementation of the 2015–2020 Strategic Plan. The focus in this final year was to ensure all the targets in the strategy were achieved. This report covers the year 2019/2020 from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020. AERC’s efforts to raise the quality of thematic research papers has started with restructuring of the incentive mechanism and efforts to improve the research administration and management process. This is where most of the pitfalls lie, as well as with internal capacity on the research management process. The improvements will also enhance the participation in research activities of researchers from fragile and post-conflict states, building on the Bridge Programme that has taken shape so far with the help of funds from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). The Training Programme continued to monitor the following collaborative graduate programmes: Collaborative Masters Programme (CMAP); Collaborative Masters in Agricultural and Applied Economics (CMAAE); and the Collaborative PhD Programme (CPP). What is at stake now is the upgrading of the training curricular in its entirety to reflect the frontier of economic teaching and knowledge base. This will be taken up in the next planning cycle to ensure that in future the Academic Advisory Board (AAB) can efficiently monitor and advise on programmatic activities and the delivery/pedagogy mechanism of the Training Programme.