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July - September 2015

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TECHNOPOLICYAFRICAThis is the official newsletter of the African Technology Policy Studies (ATPS) Network

ATPS New Board of Directors
Chinese African Babies: A Ticking Time Bomb?
Rethinking Africa’s Growth Pathway: The Role ofYouth and Women

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ATPS Core Functions

INSIDE• The future of renewable energy
technology through biodiesel
production from Jathropha in
Nigeria• Policy Without Practice• Chinese African Babies: A Ticking
Time Bomb?
• Rethinking Africa’s Growth
Pathway: The Role of Youth and
Women• Strides in filing of Patents in
Kenya• Differences in Gender
Involvement Along Cassava
Value Chains• Opportunities• ATPS New Board of Directors• New appointments

EDITORIAL TEAM
Editor- in-Chief: Dr. Nicholas Ozor
Editors:
Dorothy Njagi
Ernest Nti Acheampong
Contributors:
Ayodotun O. Bobadoye  Olajide O. Adeola
Ogechukwu O. Ajoku ESQ
Duncun Mboya
Dr. Joe Ukemenam
Design and Layout: Dorothy Njagi
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Chairman’s message

CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE
I am pleased to note the remarkable progress in
implementing the ATPS Phase VII Strategic Plan (2013- 2018)
and as we move closer to the end of the period we remain
optimistic that we shall have achieved our set goals in the six
strategic focus areas of the ATPS including; STI Research andresearch capacity building (STI-RCB); Intra-Africa and Global
Collaborations and Partnerships (IGCP); Youth and Gender
Empowerment (YGEP); Training and Sensitization (T&S);
STI Knowledge Brokerage, Commercialization and Policy
Advocacy (KB-CPA); and other Cross Cutting Goals (CCGs)  
Through the implementation of these activities, we can beassured to improve the understanding and functioning of STI
policy research and policymaking processes and systems tostrengthen capabilities, social responses and governance of
STI-led sustainable development in Africa.

Prof. Shaukat AbdulrazakI

am delighted and honored to present this edition ofTechnopolicy Africa; this is the second issue of ourrevamped newsletter that was launched in June. I amaware that our first issue received enormous positive
feedbacks from our readers and as a result had impacts
in shaping perspectives on how we can progressively
endeavor to build our continent for our own good and for the
betterment of the future generations. We promise to continue
engaging you with informative stories in science, technology
and innovation.
ATPS under the new leadership of Dr Nicholas Ozor has
consistently been reforming in structure, governance,
capabilities and strategic partnerships in order to affectively
deliver on the expectations and mandate of the organization.
We have recently appointed four new members of Board of
Directors to join in providing strategic direction for the ATPS.
I am happy to present and welcome Mr. Chuma Ikenze, Dr.
Peggy Oti-Boateng, Dr. El Tayeb Mustafa and Prof. Banji
Oyelaran- Oyeyinka to the ATPS family. These fellows havebeen chosen through very rigorous processes involving
key ATPS stakeholders. Their appointments were basedon their long-standing experiences and contributions to
the development of Africa and science, technology andinnovation in particular. This is part of the repositioning of the
ATPS to deliver on their mandate.

Again, ATPS is now concluding its previous years’ audit reports
to ensure that funds are properly expended and accountedfor. This is in line with the commitment of the new leadershipto ensure financial responsibility, controls, and systems inaccordance with international standards. We have deployed
an internationally recognized auditing firm – Deloitte &Touche to carry out the audit and so far great progress havebeen recorded in accomplishing this task.

As a premier STI institution in Africa, our core mandate remains
to champion STI agendas nationally, regionally and globally.
We recognize the need to invest in science and technology foreconomic progress so as to promote growth and prosperity.
Africa should relentlessly examine it’s future with a scienceand technology foundation and strive to come up with longterm effective strategies that can be reaped later.
We are happy to receive approval for a grant from the ClimDev Special Fund (CDSF), a multi-donor fund establishedby the African Development Bank (AfDB) under a tripartite
partnership with the African Union Commission (AUC) andthe Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), and this will go along way in facilitating our mandate in responding to Africa’s
climate change challenges. Our research project aims tobridge climate information gap by strengthening capacities
for climate informed decision-making in Africa. The overall
goal of the project is to reduce vulnerability and foster a food‐secure world through the strengthening of African countries’
capacities to understand and deploy appropriate climate
information and best practices to inform decision-making
and support development planning.
We kindly call on other development partners and donors to
support the new ATPS in implementing activities under its
six strategic focus areas already mentioned above. We wish
to re-affirm ATPS’s commitment to building STI capacities inAfrica for sustainable development and look forward to yourcontinued support in this transformative journey.  I am happy
that this rebranded newsletter is making the desired impacts
in reaching the target audience with proven information andI wish to thank all the contributors to this edition.
Prof. Shaukat Abdulrazak,
Vice-Chancellor, Umma University
Chair, ATPS Board of Directors

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ED’s message

Executive Director’s Message

Iam very pleased to present this issue of the ATPS newsletter– TechnoPolicy Africa. Firstly, I want to congratulate the newly
appointed Board of Directors of ATPS and welcome them into
the family. I am convinced that ATPS will grow in leaps and bounds
through the supports and strategic direction they will offer to theorganization. The fellows are internationally acclaimed scientists
and entrepreneurs in their own rights and I have no doubtsthat they will inject new innovative ideas that will enable ATPS
deliver on its mandate of building Africa’s capabilities in science,technology and innovation (STI) policy research, policymaking andimplementation on the continent.
Over the last few months, we have been working tirelessly with
Deloitte and Touche, an internationally acclaimed auditing firm
to audit and update ATPS’s accounts and records to ensure that
all funds received from partners and donors have been expended
judiciously. This is in line with the current administration’scommitment to financial accountability and responsibility. It isalso part of the efforts to re-assure our donors and partners of ourresolve to put into effective use all finances granted the ATPS for
the implementation of ATPS activities. We are happy to note that
tremendous progress have been achieved in this regards.
I wish to welcome back our Research Assistant, Ayodotun
Bobadoye who recently returned from the United States of America
after a 3 month Fellowship with the Woodrow Wilson Center
for International Studies under the Southern Voices Network
program. Mr Ayodotun spent his fellowship time researching on“Gender, Science, Technology, and Innovation for Sustainable
Development in Africa“. I also wish to warmly welcome our new
Research Assistant Ms. Akukwe Thecla who has recently joined the
ATPS Secretariat with skills in the area of Environment, Water andflood risk management and Food Security.
We have continued to build capabilities, structures, and conditions
for the co-production of scientific knowledge, technologies,
innovations, and policies for sustainable development in Africa.
For instance, our Biodiversity Informatics Policy landscape project
funded by the JRS Biodiversity Foundation has shown that despite
the different conventions, protocols and declarations aimed atcompelling countries to commit to biodiversity conversation,
the impacts of these policies remain elusive. The market scoping
research study on Newcastle disease in village poultry in Nigeria
and Ghana being supported by GALVmed is progressing well andthe report will be presented in October 2015. The research aims
to find out the effects of the Newcastle disease epidemiology,socio-economic impact on the livelihood of small scale village
poultry producers, especially women and to determine availability,
registration status and large scale sustainable distribution
mechanisms of ND vaccines including, thermostable I2, Itanew etc.,
in Nigeria and Ghana. Similarly, the research project on ‘Improving
Agricultural Productivity and Resilience to Climate Change
Using the Land Potential Knowledge System (LandPKS) Mobile
Technology being funded by the Technical Centre for Agricultural
and Rural Cooperation (CTA) is being concluded with tremendous
outcomes on the project showing how the LandInfo app is alreadyhelping farmers, extension agents and land use planners to takefarm decisions with respect to identifying the best soils suitable for
production purposes; its erosion risks; for fallowing, and for otheruses.
Under our Training and Sensitization program, we have partneredwith the Ministry of Agriculture (Fiber Crops Directorate of
the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Authority-AFFA) to train

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AFFA’s technical officers on the use of the LandInfo mobile apptechnology. The training will enable them reach the farmers they
serve with accurate information on the potential of their soils to
support productivity especially in the face of climate change.
Already a training of 100 technical staff in 10 counties in Kenya has
been earmarked. ATPS has currently trained 20 technical officers of
AFFA in Kisumu and Baringo counties on the use of the LandInfo
app to support farm decision-making and land use planning.
During the quarter, ATPS staff presented papers in many
international meetings, workshops, conferences and policy
dialogues. Notable among them are: the Ecosystem Based
Adaptation for Food Security conference tagged “Reimagining
African Food Security now & in the future” which was held from 3031 July, 2015 at the UN Complex in Nairobi, Kenya; Africa Geospatial
Forum 2015: Moving towards a Geo-smart Africa held from 18-19
August in Johannesburg, South Africa; launching of the Alliance
for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA) held on 10
September 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya; the Inception Meeting of theAfrican Climate Change Fellowship Program (ACCFP) Phase III heldfrom 21-23 September 2015 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; 3rd Annual
Africa Food Security Conference & Agri- Exhibition 2015 held from
22-23 September, 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya; and the 1st African
Agribusiness Incubation Conference held from 28-30 September
2015 in Nairobi, Kenya among many others.
We continue to solicit for supports from donors and development
partners to help us realize our mission which undoubtedly will
help Africa to implement most of the sustainable development
goals already launched at the United Nations General Assembly.
We assure you of tangible impacts and outcomes for every support
received. You can register to be a member of ATPS by simply fillinga form on our website and get a chance to join the network of
1,500 members. As a member you will be part of building andimplementing STI Initiatives across Africa and in the Diaspora (USA,
UK & Australia) where ATPS has its National Chapters.  You will also
have the opportunity to participate in conferences and trainings
organized by the ATPS.
Dr. Nicholas Ozor
Ag. Executive Director, ATPS

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The Future of Renewable Energy Technology

THE FUTURE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
THROUGH BIODIESEL PRODUCTION FROM JATHROPHAIN NIGERIA
By Ogechukwu O. Ajoku ESQ
Ajoku.ogez@gmail.com

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se of renewable energy has in a long time beena priority in environmental conservation andeconomic development in most African countries.
Investing in renewable energy is a noble move ofalleviating poverty hence promoting economic growth forsustainable development however; most of these energy
sources in Africa remain under- exploited. Biodiesel has
become a popular energy production method due to its
proven benefits like; creating employment, contributing tosocio-economic development, influences reduction in fossil
fuel prices, provides nitrogen fixation in the soil that resultsto overall land productivity, provides stable income for ruralcommunity farmers among others.
Fossil fuels have resulted in many global economic, political,
health and environmental problems. The key challenges
facing the European Union (EU), United State of America(USA) and Asian producers of Biodiesel is the availability ofaffordable and sustainable feedstocks that will not interferewith the food chain. This has resulted to a serious energy
security concern in most countries in these regions. Anotherchallenge is that as more land is earmarked for food crops,
pricing for raw materials for biodiesel production becomesa problem to food stock sustainability. In this regard,
competition between food and fuel will lead to increase in
EU imports for biodiesel. In the US, the competition for land
to plant corn for bioethanol is still under competition, landfor planting food crops and land for planting biodiesel feedstocks. All of these three regions of EU, US and Asia are now
relying on Africa where availability of feedstock for biodiesel
can be developed with cheap labour, abundance of waterand land. Such materials in Africa are biodiesel feedstock that
do not exert any direct pressure and competition with humanfood, and also do not require much land. These are known assecond-generation feedstock (2nd gen raw materials).
In Africa, current biodiesel production efforts are at infancy
stages, in Namibia, Erickson and Mobile Telephone Network(MTN) are developing a project to power base stations using
biodiesel. In Nigeria, for instance, the 2nd generation biodiesel
feedstock that has high potential is Jathropha. The plant is
non-edible, and therefore does not compete with humanfood. Its residue can be exported to, European Union (EU),
United State of America (USA) and Asian Countries. With thelargest telecommunications and technology market in Africa,
Nigeria stands at a strategic location for accessing alternative
energy (Renewable Energy) to power its telecommunicationand technology sector. The possible option in Nigeria is to
produce Jathropha oil, sell to biodiesel producers in Nigeria,
the rest of Africa, Europe, US and Asia, or out rightly produce
Jathropha biodiesel for local, regional and global markets. In
other words, the Global system for Mobile Communications(GSM) services providers in Nigeria alone consume overCreative Commons by Chrisforsyth is licensed under CC BY 2.0

10million liters of petroleum diesel to power their stations,banks use diesel generators to provide their services and soforth.
The emergence of Jathropha as an alternative feedstock to
deploying highly priced vegetable oil for producing biodiesel
is an advantage for Nigeria. Nigeria has vast land, very fertileand flat, as well as cheap labour. Jathropha yields well in arid
and semi-arid farm lands, as well as in degraded soils that
does not require much fertilizer and water to produce highyields. It has a shorter plant cycle than palm oil. It has a highoil yield that grows where many human food crops do not,and cannot grow. It is an economic development engine
in poverty stricken regions in Nigeria. It is a sustainable
alternative to deploying human food crops for biodiesel
production. Harvesting of Jathropha is not yet mechanized,
which makes it labour intensive providing employment for
many rural dwellers. It produces high oil, yielding inedible
fruits. It is capable of producing as much as 20 times theenergy it requires to produce it. It is easy to cultivate and cansurvive in degraded soils.
It is most ideal for cultivation on marginal land, thereby
allowing prime areas available for food crops. It does notcompete with resources required to produce food. The flowers
and stems possess medicinal properties and the leaves areused for dressing wounds. The Jathropha plant is desirable asa source of feedstock for biodiesel production and its seedproduce up to 40% oil and also highly resistant to drought
and pest. It takes approximately 12-15 months from planting
to first harvest, thrives successfully on degraded soils. Its
biodiesel can be used in existing standard diesel engines,
while the residue can be processed into biomass to powerelectricity power plant. It also serves as organic fertilizer veryrich in organic fertilizer and in organic matter.
The production of Jathropa is a sure guarantee to poverty
alleviation and a long-term energy solution that is affordable
and has significant benefits to the environment.

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Rethinking Africa’s Growth Pathway

RETHINKING AFRICA’S GROWTH PATHWAY: THE
ROLE OF YOUTH AND WOMEN
opportunity to accelerate growth, reduce poverty and build
a sustainable and peaceful future on the African continent.
The continuous neglect and lack of job provisions for theteaming African youth breed widespread frustration andsocial discontent, which can potentially undermine peace
and political stability.

Second, Africa’s development has not factored in theimportant role and contribution of women in the formal
economic process. Women’s economic role and impact
on economic patterns are often discounted or not fullyrecognized by national policies, statistics and even inlegislation. The continuous under-representation of womenin social, political and economic spheres weakens Africa’s
leverage to achieve its maximum potential of sustainablesocio-economic development. In a nutshell, Africa’s current
pattern of growth is neither inclusive nor sustainable.

Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran / CC BY 2.0

By Ernest AcheampongIn June 2015, Africa’s corporate “gurus”, senior bankers,
renowned entrepreneurs and top government officials
from the 53 African countries and beyond convergedin the beautiful city of Cape Town in South Africa under
the platform of the World Economic Forum for Africa. They
scrutinized and discussed Africa’s economic growth pathways,
status and future prospects within the global economy.

Following the theme, “Then and Now: Reimagining Africa’s
Future”, participants evaluated Africa’s economic progression
over the past 25 years, discussed prevailing insights on thecurrent development landscape and identified innovative
ways of accelerating inclusive growth and fostering asustainable development agenda. This year marked the25th forum in Africa and many questions have been raised
about how this forum has shaped Africa’s economy towards
addressing the fundamental challenges such as poverty,
unemployment, social exclusion, income inequality,
unsustainable resource extraction rates among other things
confronting African countries.
Barely two and half decades ago, Africa’s contribution to global
economy was rarely recognized, and all indications pointed
to a continent destined to fail. However, the dawn of the newmillennium heralded a new era of radical transformation of
Africa’s fortune. A continent that was deemed a “doomed
continent” would turn the tables and become a beaconof hope for the global economy. Africa’s growth showed
incredible economic turnaround, with growth rate 2-3%
faster than the global growth rate. Sustained by a stable
growth rate of average slightly above 5%, Africa’s economy
was ranked as the second fastest growing economy after Asia
from 2001-2010, with 6 countries among the rapidly growing
economies.
The story of Africa’s impressive and stable economic growth isoften told alongside two key disturbing development trends.
First, the rising economic growth has not translated into
adequate job creation for the youth, with unemployment
rate at 6% per annum. Africa’s population pyramid depicts a
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Moving forward, there is a need for a drastic transition froman unsustainable natural resource-based economy to amore service-driven economy. Such a transition will requirea renewal of mindset towards a culture of innovation. This
is not to say that current systems are not innovative. In fact,
the latter part of this century has witnessed the emergenceof multiple innovations, new technologies, new services
and new products that are addressing social and economic
objectives in Africa, and this has significantly contributed
to Africa’s new brand as a “Rising Star”. However, theseadvancements made have not significantly shifted Africa’s
economy away from the conventional production processes.
Innovation is widely seen as a major driver of economic growthand success in the global business environment today. Driving
the innovation process is the need to improve efficiency andeffectiveness of existing systems or create new ones to drive
down cost and improve productivity, reduce negative impact,
create a highly competitive market and advance societies
worldwide. Africa’s new generation of women and youth arecredited with emerging innovations that have put a spotlighton the continent. Tapping into growing digital revolution on
the continent, women and youth are developing strategies
and solutions that are addressing everyday issues andimproving socio-economic conditions of people at both local
and national levels.
The future of prosperous economies in Africa will rely
profoundly on continent’s capacity to innovate, embrace
new ideas and implement them in order to meet pressing
unmet needs and improve people’s lives. African youth andwomen with their innovative minds in the contemporary
era represent a powerful source of inclusive and sustainablesocio-economic growth. The youth and women in Africa
are critical to an African renaissance. Banking on the great
potential, dynamism, resourcefulness, resiliency, andaspiration of major stakeholders, a unique opportunity awaits
Africa in harnessing the enormous potential of this criticalsocial capital. It is therefore essential to scale up investment
in youth and women to enable them play an active rolein development and contribute to addressing persisting
challenges.

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Policy without Practice

POLICY WITHOUT PRACTICE
By Dr. Nicholas Ozor and Dorothy Njagi

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ave public policies become a paradox characterized
by enormous rhetoric from institutions andorganizations involved in biodiversity information
generation and implementation with very little
efforts to substantiate their impacts? This appears to be thecase for biodiversity policies in sub-Sahara Africa. Different
institutions have explicitly declared their commitments increating conservation policies; legislation, institutions andinternational agreements on biodiversity, which is, quite aremarkable step. However, the impacts of these policies are
yet to be felt, putting into consideration the fact that we areliving in the wake of catastrophic climate change phenomena.
Sub-Sahara African countries have established a remarkable
number of policies following the emergence of several
international environmental agreements, protocols andconventions.   Majority of these countries have gone a stepahead to separate these policies to specifically address
different biodiversity features such as forests, wildlife,
environment, marine, and agriculture among others. It isnotable that apart from the primary benefit of conserving
the environmental balance, there is also the economic
achievement that is drawn from the implementation of thesepolicies.
Africa in particular should ultimately seek to reconstructbiodiversity conservation activities as a matter of urgency as
it stands the most vulnerable to the climate change threats.
The rate at which activities such as poaching of wild animals,
urbanization, overexploitation of mining fields, the growing
population, deforestation, unregulated development andanthropological misuse is taking place is alarming and needs
to be addressed without delay to avoid further loses.

on the intrinsic value that biodiversity resources hold both
environmentally and economically.
Africa has enormous potential and is well endowed with
abundant living things, agricultural potential, fresh water
sources, arable lands among other biodiversity resources.
However, it still stands at a crossroad simply because thepolicies are still stacked in files with no strong commitment for
implementation. The time is now to put policy into practice.

National biodiversity strategies need to be thoroughly
adhered to by member countries. Indicators such as global
warming should not be ignored and ecosystem based
adaptations need to be harnessed so as to protect the future
generations from negative effects of ecosystem integrity.
Urbanization and industrialization have been seen to be themajor threats to biodiversity as many countries are investing inenergy and infrastructure in a bid to develop their economies
and eradicate poverty. These countries are quickly moving
to address hurdles like unemployment, growing youth
population and insecurity by investing more in technologies
and industrialization. However, for sustainable development
to be achieved, a balance needs to be struck to ensure that
one area of the economy does not progress at the expenseof the other.

It is time to move fromplan to action, from policy
to practice in the area of
biodiversity conservation
using data, information andtechnologies to leapfrog
transformations on the
African continent

It is time to move from plan to action, from policy topractice in the area of biodiversity conservation using data,
information and technologies to leapfrog transformations on
the African continent. A holistic approach is for all relevant
actors including policymakers, private sector, researchers andother drivers of change to get involved in implementation.
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Chinese African Babies

Chinese African Babies- A ticking time bomb?
of their work contracts, no formal or legal arrangements are put
in place for the welfare of both mothers and/or the children.
Inadequate knowledge on the extent of such problems meansthat no formal support mechanisms are being developed forthe women and children and as a result the promotion of good
public health sexual practices are missed. These are raising key
issues and fundamental questions under the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Unlike the USA andthe Vietnamese GI children, China has no policy to assimilate
these African children as citizens, leaving them more vulnerable
in Africa where culture can have its own adverse effects on
the right of these children. All these dilemmas and emerging
problems could possibly be the next Africa’s time bomb.

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By Dr. Joe Ukemenam

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istory has it that the present unresolved issues
become the problems of tomorrow, thus it isparamount to remain aware of the consequences
attached to a particular event or phenomenon.
Chinese men in Africa are increasingly fatheringchildren and leaving women, usually unmarried andvulnerable girls, as single mothers. As a result, it is estimatedthat over 400,000 children have been left without fathers andthe number is likely to increase if the trend continues without
being critically addressed.
As several commercial Aircrafts fly hundreds of Chinese workers
daily into African cities, a Chinese interpreter informs that theseworkers (pre-dominantly males) arrive usually unaccompaniedby their families or partners and have an average of twelve
months’ initial contract, in most cases without a break clauseor absence from the African theatre. Unlike other internationalorganizations where staff must take leave at appropriate times
or annual leave to visit family, the Chinese largely use a different
system that does not promote regular or frequent leave such asthat of other experts and missions staffs in Africa.
Currently, there is a visible increase in the number of children
fathered by Chinese men in Africa with women who are either
under age or poor being the most vulnerable. In Kenya, there isevidence of these Chinese footprints in areas along Thika Road
where numerous of them had been contracted by the Kenyan
government to construct the infamous, Thika Super Highway.
With more Chinese contracted projects being commissioned,
like the Lamu Port- Southern Sudan- Ethiopia Transport(LAPSSET), this challenge is likely to get out of hand more
quickly than foreseen. What is more worrying about these
Chinese men menace, is that they do not take ownership of
their paternity responsibilities.
Reform Corporation UK - an International Development
Agency with support from the United Kingdom Parliamentand in collaboration with ATPS UK has established that themost significant and worrying issue is the fact that mostof these babies are left without the parental care and noinheritance rights from their Chinese fathers. As a result, theAfrican communities often ostracize these unmarried mothers.
When the Chinese fathers leave the African theatre at the end

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number of females and underage girls that are involved in thesaga. Apart from these sexual activities resulting in increased
unwanted and un-planned pregnancies that are not being
taken care of, the fight against HIV/AIDs is also undermined andnot supported by these behaviours. In addition, no one knows
exactly the pattern, extent or the mutation of this phenomenon
in Africa today. Paradoxically, very little is currently thoughtof the density of this dynamic phenomenon resulting in theneglect and rejection of these African babies fathered by
Chinese men by either or both parties.
A survey shows that very little has been published regarding
this phenomenon although there are records of increasing
marriages and resultant children between Chinese men
and African women. Chinese men who are not in marriage
situations remain sexually active in any event but the patterns
have not been seriously explored, documented and explainedfor its compliance with local child protection legislations andpublic health policies. This important omission must be a wakeup call for Africa’s policy makers and child protection agencies
around the world and demands urgent comprehensive study.
There is an urgent need to investigate the pattern, extent andconsequences of this emerging paradigm. In addition, prroperly
establish current and future policy requirements, cultural, legal
and humanitarian issues emerging from the phenomenon.
Such phenomenon could include those, which if not addressed
now, could amount to the next African ‘time bomb’ in the near
future. There is need for greater knowledge of the potential
dangers to the society of these uncontrolled associations, theinherent public health challenges and compliances under theUnited Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC).
In order to fully confront the dilemma posed by this challenge,a deeper and systematic analysis is required urgently in order tounderstand the pattern and extent of this emerging paradigm,
set out adequate interventions (policies or otherwise) that will
safeguard these vulnerable children, their vulnerable and childmothers, girls and other new potential victims.

China has no policy toassimilate these African
children as citizens

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Filing of Patents in Kenya

Strides in filing of patents in Kenya
In 2007, for the first time, the patent applications in Kenya
exceeded the 100 mark, a trend which has been maintainedsince.
This trend is consistent with the worldwide patent applications
trend, which also experienced a continuous growth between
1995 and 2012 with exception of a slight decrease in 2002 and amore pronounced decrease in 2009, which was associated withthe global financial crisis.
“Our analysis reveal that majority of the patents (21.96 percent)took duration of between 25 months and 36 months (2 years
to 3 years) to be granted, while the longest patent application
took 183 months to be granted, Dr. Bollo said.

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By Duncan MboyahThe rate of youth unemployment in Kenya accounts
for over 40% of the youth population. Every year, we
witness graduation ceremonies where thousands ofgraduates leave institutions of higher learning withhopes of joining the job market. However, thesenumbers do not translate to the number of available jobs inthe market. This situation has prompted the youth to establish
their own employment opportunities to avoid years of endless‘tarmacking’. The number of youths in Kenya venturing into
entrepreneurship activities has remarkably increased forcing
them to come up with start-ups/innovations especially inscience and technology. The number of innovation hubs andyouth empowerment organizations has also increased with an
aim to build capacity and empower the youth.
At the same time, it is imperative for the youth to be informed
about patenting their ideas so that other people do not claim
to own them, which would kill their dreams. Kenya has madetremendous progress in patent applications since the year
1994, the first time when a patent was granted in the country.
Previously, patent applications in Kenya had a negligible
contribution to the growth of worldwide patent applications
as it accounted for approximately 0.011 percent of thepatent applications worldwide in 2012. But a lot has changed
especially during the period 1990 – 2013, where a total of 2,388
patents were filed in Kenya and 633 patents, representing 26.5
percent of the total applications were granted.
“The long-term trend shows that there has been a continuous
growth in the number of patent applications filed in Kenya,with exception of 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2006 and 2013
in which there was a decline in patent applications from theprevious years,” the Director of Scinnovent Centre, a policy anddevelopment think tank in Kenya, Dr. Maurice Bolo said during
the launch of the study in Nairobi.
He said that even though there were indicators of a decline of
6.9 percent from the number of patents applications filed in2012, it shows that Kenya is on the right track. He observed that
this low rate in terms of patents granted formed the basis forthe determination of the duration taken for a patent to warrant
grant.

By Kenyan law, patents filed through the national route takea minimum statutory period of 18 months. In cases where it
has taken less time, these were applications filed before theIndustrial Property Act (2001) came into force; hence the 18
months period was not applicable then.
During the period under review, companies filed 1,375 patents,
out of which 496 were granted representing 78.4 percent of thetotal patents granted.
The government filed 8 applications and was granted 2 patents
which is 0.3 percent of the total patents granted.
At the same time, public research institutes filed 69 applications
and were granted 25 patents, which represent 3.9 percentof the total patents granted. Universities and other learning
institutions filed 69 patents, and were granted 10 patents,
which is 1.6 percent of the total patents granted.
Individual inventors filed 581 applications and got 60 patents
granted, representing 9.5 percent of the total patents grantedin this period.
“A total of 278 patent applications were filed by various formsof partnerships, 40 of these were granted patents representing
6.3 percent of total patents,” Dr. Bollo noted.
Dr. Bollo noted that out of the 633 patents granted, 73.6 percent
were Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) while only 26.4 percent
were national patents.
He further revealed that from the study, only 42 of the 396 utility
models filed were granted, while 714 of the 1,392 industrial
designs filed were granted.
Dr. Bollo further revealed that some utility models were rejected
due to failure to meet the protection set criteria for an invention,
failure to submit the required fees and lack of response to thepast correspondences.
Intellectual property rights are seen as important in economic
development because they provide a mechanism of turningknowledge from a public good to a private good that can be
traded and subjected to market forces and also help to makefreely available technical information since full disclosure is arequirement for granting the protection.
However, the awareness about, application for and use of
intellectual property is characteristically low in developing
countries.Kenya’s patents are handled by Kenya Industrial
Property Office (KIPO), a body that was formed in 1994.

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African Women Participating in STEMAFRICAN WOMEN PARTICIPATION IN SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS(STEM): WHY SO FEW?
By Ayodotun Oluwafemi BobadoyeT

he importance of science, technology and innovation(STI) for sustainable development and peacebuilding in Africa cannot be over-emphasized. The
quest for natural resource control is one of the major
causes of civil unrest and conflict in most African countries.
The continent accounts for three-quarters of the world’s
platinum, half of its diamond and chromium, and one-fifth of
the world’s gold and uranium supply. Many African countries
are fast becoming home to major oil and gas production
sites, with about 20 countries now producing crude oil.
STI is important for the discovery, exploration andtransformation of the natural resources in the continent
to finished products. African leaders realizing the need totransform Africa from natural resource based to a knowledge
based and innovation led economy through massive
investment in STI adopted the Science, Technology andInnovation Strategy for Africa (STISA 2024). For STISA 2024
to achieve its mission, the gender disparity between men
and women especially in Science, Technology, Engineeringand Mathematics (STEM) courses and professions must be
addressed; this is because STEM training forms the bedrock
for producing scientist, engineers and innovators that will
drive the continent’s STI agenda.
Women account for over 50% of the available humanresources in Africa. In order for the continent to achieve
its goal of transforming Africa to knowledge based andinnovation led society, it has to maximize the inherent
potential of the African woman. Research has shown thathigher female earnings and bargaining power in Africatranslate into greater investment in childhood education andhealth and nutrition. This in turn leads to economic growthand development in the long term.
Despite the clamor for increased female participation in the
STEM related courses and professions, there seems to be aslow uptake in STEM activities when compared to other fieldsof study by women in most part of the world. Societal beliefs
and learning environments affect the girl child interest inmathematics and science subjects. In Africa, one major
reason for gender inequality in math and science education isa child’s early environment. Boys tend to be brought up to be
independent and solution driven, while there is a propensity
to call on girls to be subservient and affectionate. The modeof teaching STEM courses in most schools are also genderbiased; most math and science teachers are male; math andscience books including the examples and illustration inthem are male authored.
In addition, the issue of differences in cognitive ability basedon sex, particularly in mathematics remains hotly contested.
One area of gender difference where cognitive abilities are
disputed is spatial skills, which are believed to be importantfor engineering and other scientific field. There is the belief
that boys perform better in tasks using spatial orientationand visualization while girls outperform boys on tests relying
on verbal skills. However, research has shown that similar up

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bringing and simple training improves spatial skills.
African women also have peculiar challenges, which
include traditional norms and beliefs like, women should
be responsible for taking care of the children, elderly andsick, which reduces their chances of going to school. Sexualand reproductive health issues also affect female educationin Africa. About 530,000 African women die every year fromchildbirth and about 80% experience complications during
pregnancy.
To address the issue of women participation in STEM fields inAfrica, there should be gender mainstreaming in STI policies
and strategies in African countries. Policies should take into
account customs, tradition and peculiar needs of womenin the region. These policies should include gender-based
affirmative action, which ensures appropriate representationof women in decision making at all levels, reviewing of theeducational curriculum from elementary class to the university
to remove gender bias, gender awareness training for scienceand mathematics teachers should be an important part of theschool curriculum in African countries.
There should be increased mentorship and sponsorshipprograms for girls in STEM fields, increased representation of
female role models, celebrating of female scientist in Africa so
as to serve as role models and networking amongst female
scientists in Africa through publications, meetings and virtual
discussion groups. This will promote collaboration with fellow
scientists and also create new opportunities to make it easierfor the exchange of ideas, knowledge and information.
There is also the need to conduct research that collects
and analyzes gender-disaggregated data for informed
policy decisions. Further, proper monitoring of policy andstrategy implementation; the constraints and progress ofthe policies and strategies should be documented and bestpractices should be identified through impact assessmentand evaluation. Finally, there is the need to launch nationaland regional campaigns that will raise awareness about theimportant contribution of women in science, technology
and innovation in Africa. All stakeholders in Africa should be
involved in charting a new era of development for African
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Differences in Gender Involvement along Cassava Value Chains

Differences in Gender Involvement Along
Cassava Value Chains
By Olajide O. Adeola
Department of Agricultural Economics
University of Ibadan, Ibadan NigeriaT

he continued changes in the social roles andresponsibilities of men and women have called
for the documentation and appraisal of genderroles and relations in value chains. This is to enable
development intervention agencies such as; Food andAgriculture Organization (FAO), International Instituteof Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and policy makers in thegovernment institution to target the right beneficiaries when
incentives and resources are to be delivered to actors like;cassava farmers, processors and marketers. It is against thisbackdrop, that a study chose to appraise the gender roles
along the cassava value chain in some areas of Oyo west in
Oyo state, Nigeria.
Evidence from the research showed that most of the actors
were male, with poor education. Information on the modeof acquisition of the major factor of production employedindicated that at least half of the sample depended on otheractors to rent processing machines; some inherited theirs
while others depended on their spouses. The prevalent tasks
for males and females were also examined and it showed thatthe production node was dominated by men particularly
for strenuous tasks such as land preparation while females
were more involved at the processing node. But somecomplementary roles which involved the physical aspects
of processing such as water expressing were mainly handled
by men. Contrary to expectation the tasks at the marketing
node involved more men than women; the assumption wasthat women should be the ones handling cassava sales since
they dominated at the processing point. In terms of labour
employment, more jobs were created for men than for
women.

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removing the bottlenecks faced by actors and an equitableparticipation of both men and women along the nodes of
the chain.
Oluwafunmiso   Adeola   Olajide   is a lecturer in the
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Ibadan.
She specialized in Farming and Rural Systems Economics andher research interests include Food Security, Living Standard,
Climate Change and Gender issues. She is a member of several
professional associations including the African Association ofAgricultural Economist. She is currently a visiting scholar at
the United Nations University-Institute for Natural Resourcesin Africa, Accra, Ghana..

The constraints that these actors faced include inadequate
supply of input materials, credit inaccessibility, high costof production materials and poor pricing of products.
Challenges faced by processors are, inadequate capitaland storage facility, spoilage during processing, cost oflabour, transportation to processing site, lack of improved
processing equipment and time spent on processing These
problems are at varying degrees. Marketers were constrainedby inadequate supply of cassava tubers for purchase, highcost of transportation, poor pricing of products, credit
inaccessibility and high cost of facilities such as vehicles.
However, farm inaccessibility was not a constraint, meaningthat they all had access to the farms they purchased cassava
tubers from. Educational exposure, credit constraints andthe sphere of influence in decision making with respect tothe business enterprise are factors, which limit productivity
hence profitability.

Food sufficiency andsecurity can only beguaranteed by removing
the bottlenecks faced byactors and an equitableparticipation of both men
and women along the nodesof the chain

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Opportunities

OPPORTUNITIES2015 Clean Cooking Forum
November 10-13, 2015 location: Accra Ghana

21st session of the Conference of the Parties to theUnited Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (COP21)
Nov 30 2015 - Dec 11 2015, Location: Paris, France
In 2015, France will be hosting and presiding the 21st
Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21/
CMP11), otherwise known as “Paris 2015” from November
30th to December 11th. COP21 will be a crucial conference,as it needs to achieve a new international agreement on
the climate, applicable to all countries, with the aim of
keeping global warming below 2°C. France will therefore
be playing a leading international role to ensure points ofview converge and to facilitate the search for consensus by
the United Nations, as well as within the European Union,
which has a major role in climate negotiation
http://www.cop21.gouv.fr/en

Join 400 global leaders and practitioners gathered
to help accelerate adoption of cleaner, more efficientcooking solutions. The bi-annual event will bring together
stakeholders to share knowledge, learn best practices andforge new partnerships during four-days of informative
sessions, networking, site visits, and clean cooking
demonstrations. The Forum theme Accelerating Markets.
Scaling Solutions will mark the Alliance’s 5th Anniversary
and convene global stakeholders to share best practices andbusiness models, forge new partnerships, and strengthen
the sector toward a 100 million household clean cooking
adoption goal by 2020.
http://cleancookstoves.org/events/154.html

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
To host a side event and exhibit in the Africa Pavilion
November 30th - December 11th 2015 Location: Paris,
France6th Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security
Oct 30 2015, Location: Kampala, Uganda
The 6th edition of the ADFNS will be commemorated
under the theme, “Empowering Our Women, Securing
Our Food, Improving Our Nutrition”. This theme ties neatly
with the declared 2015 “Year of Women Empowerment
and Development towards Africa’s Agenda 2063”. As
substantiated in the foregoing section, it is obvious thatempowering women on the continent is a catalyst to
improving the continent’s status of food and nutrition
security, vis-à-vis contributing substantially to ending
hunger and reducing stunting to the desired level.
http://nepad.org/conferences/6th-africa-day-food-andnutrition-security

The African Union Commission (AUC), the UN Economic
Commission for Africa (UNECA), the African Development
Bank (AfDB) and the NEPAD   Planning and Coordinating
Agency (NPCA) are pleased to call for proposals to host side
events at the African Pavilion during COP21/CMP11 in Paris
from November 30th to December 12th, 2015.
The organizing committee invites proposals to host
90-minute climate related side events in Hall 3 of the “Africa
1” area of the Africa Pavilion at the Paris-Le Bourget sitewhere the COP21 will be held
http://climdev-africa.org

Inaugural Conference of the Specialized TechnicalCommittee (STC) on Agriculture, Rural Development,
Water and Environment
Oct 5 2015 - Oct 9 2015, Addis Ababa , Ethiopia
Theme: Advancing concerted action for improved
livelihoods in Africa

NEW APPOINTMENT
Ms. Thecla I. Akukwe is a Research
Assistant at ATPS. Her responsibilities
include; desk studies, developing
proposals, field works, data analysis
etc. She holds a B.Sc degree and an
M.Sc (Environmental Management)
degree in Geography from the
University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She
won the University of Nigeria,
Nsukka and Chief Enoch Ifediora Oli
prizes for the Best Graduate in the
Department of Geography for the
2006/2007 Session. She also took a short course in Flood
Risk Management at UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands
and she is presently pursuing a Ph.D programme in
Environmental Planning and Management, at the
University of Nairobi.

The overall objectives of the Inaugural Conference of
the AU Specialized Technical Committee on Agriculture,
Rural Development, Water and Environment is to review
relevant strategic goals, facilitate mutual accountability
and Identify synergies, linkages and complementarities
in on-going agriculture, rural development, water andenvironment related initiatives, and their implications
on the achievement of the overarching goals of Africa
Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation(3AGT) agenda for attaining food and nutrition security,
reduce poverty, boost intra-African trade, and enhance
resilience of production systems and livelihoods to Climate
Change and related shocks.
h t t p : / / w w w. n e p a d . o r g / f o o d s e c u r i t y / i n a u g u r a l conference -specialized-technical- committee -stcagriculture-rural-development-

Miss Akukwe has 6 years teaching and research experienceand has published articles in reputable journals and has
also participated in some sponsored research/projects
including; Resilient Agriculture-based Livelihoods andResilient Agricultural Landscape (RESALL) among others .

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New Appointments

ATPS NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Prof. Banji OyelaranOyeyinka
istheDirector,
Regional
Office for Africa (ROAF)
UN-HABITAT. Banji isalso a Professional
Fellow in Technology,
Innovation Policy andDevelopment at United
Nations
UniversityMERIT, Maastricht, theNetherlands and a Visiting professor; Innovation
Policy and Development at the Open University,
Milton Keynes, UK.

Dr. Peggy Oti-Boatengis the Senior ProgrammeSpecialist for Science andTechnology for Africa
and Coordinator, African
Network of Scientific andTechnological Intuitions(ANSTI), UNESCO, Regional
Office for Southern Africa.
She has over 30 years
professional experience in teaching, research anddevelopment and consultancy service in Science,
Engineering, Technology and Innovation (SETI),
science-policy-society and sourcing for funding.

He holds a PhD in Science, Technology Management
and Innovation Policy from SPRU, University of
Sussex, UK and MSc Chemical Engineering from
University of Toronto, Canada. His main areas ofinterest include Innovation Systems in Comparative
Perspective, Sectoral Innovation Systems in Industry
and Engineering, Innovation and Economic
Development and Industrialization and Latecomer
development.

Peggy has a passion for harnessing SETI for solving
basic needs of food, energy, water, health andsustainable environment for the poor and thepromotion of technologies. She holds a PhD in
Food Technology and Nutrition from Universityof Adelaide, Australia and BSc Biochemistryfrom Kwame Nkrumah University of Science andTechnology, Kumasi, Ghana.

Mr. Chuma Ikenze,
is the CEO & Founder ofKenzel, LLC, a Technology
and Financial Management
Solutions firm, with over
35 years of experience inprivate as well as public
sector activities. Chuma isan International Business
Development expert who
has assisted companies
seeking opportunities in the sub-Saharan African
Market.

Dr. El Tayeb Mustafa,
has been Presidentof Future UniversitySudan since 2011
and is the former
DirectoroftheDivision for Science
Policy & Sustainable
Development
at UNESCO, memberoftheSudanese
National Academy of Sciences, member of the ArabAcademy of Sciences and corresponding member ofthe Royal Academy of Science (Belgium).

His passion is to facilitate effective transfer oftechnology and management know-how into theAfrican economies. Chuma holds an MBA degreefrom Cornell University, Ithaca NY. He is also a
registered Certified Public Accountant in the UnitedStates of America and an Enrolled US Taxation (IRS)
specialist.

He is a member of the Governing Board of theInternational Research and Training Centre in China, amember of the Governing Board of the International
Center for South-South Cooperation in STI in Kuala
Lumpur, and a member of the organizing committee
for the Daejeon Global Innovation Forum, Korea.

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National Chapter Coordinators

ATPS National chapter Coordinators
Australia
Mr. David Doepel
Chair, Africa Research Group, Murdoch
University
90 South Street
MurdochWestern Australia 6150
Tel: +61418912287
Email: d.doepel@murdoch.edu.au
Benin
Dr. Roch L. MONGBO
Senior Lecturer & Researcher
FIDESPRA/Univ. of Abomey Calava and
CEBEDES – XU dodo
02 BP 778
Cotonou, Benin
Tel: +229-21304139
Cell : +229 95 96 64 46
Email: rmongbo@intnet.bj or
Rochl_mongbo@yahoo.com
Botswana
Dr. John MOTHIBI
Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering &Technology
University of Botswana
P/Bag 0061
Gaborone, Botswana
Tel:     +267 3554348
Fax:    +267 3952309
E-mail: mothibij@mopipi.ub.bw
Burkina Faso
Dr. Benoit KABORE
Université de Ouagadougou
01 BP 4487
Ouagadougou 01
Burkina Faso
Tel: 226 812008/380715
Email: benkabor2003@yahoo.fr
CameroonDr. Sylvester NDESO ATANGA
Lecturer, Epidemology & Public HealthFaculty of Health Sciences
University of Buea
P.O. Box 63
South West Province
Republic of Cameroon
Tel: + 237-75816047
Cell: +237-99841433
Email: ndesoatpscamnet@rocketmail.
com

Cote d’Ivore
Dr. Arsène KOUADIO,
Associate Professor, University of
Abidjan-Cocody ; Researcher, CIRES
Director, Laboratoire de croissance
Economique
Executive Director, Institut pour leDéveloppement (IPD),
Coordinator, ATPS Côe d’Ivoire,
Coordinator, RIA Côte d’Ivoire,
Fellow Researcher, AERC, Poverty
Economic Policy (PEP),
Cocody, Boulelevard Latrille
08 B.P. 1295 Abidjan 08, Côte d’Ivoire
Tel : +225 22 44 60 99
Fax: +225 22 48 82 84
Mobile : +225 07 98 46 80 / 05 95 97 91
E-mail: arsene.k@ipd-ci.org
arsenekk@yahoo.fr
arsenekouadio@hotmail.com
Egypt
Ms. Manal Moustafa SAMRA
Focal Point Coordinator
45 Noubar Street, Bab El-Louk
8th Floor, Apt 29,Cairo
Egypt
Tel: +20105005284
Email: mmsamra@gmail.com
EthiopiaMr.  Wondwossen BELETE,
Ag. National Coordinator
Director of Intellectual Property
Protection and Technology Transfer,
Ethiopian Industrial Property
Organization (EIPO)
Email: wondwossenbel@yahoo.com
GambiavacantGhana
Dr. Fred AMU-MENSAH
Senior Research Scientist
CSIR Water Research Institute
P.O. Box M.32
Accra, Ghana
Tel: +233-24-4748197
Fax: +233 21 77 7170
Email: assabil@aim.com orobeyie@gmail.com

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Kenya
Mr. Kenneth Williams Aduda
Senior Research Fellow
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University
P.O. Box 201 - 40601
Bondo, Kenya
Tel: +254 057 - 2501804
Fax: +254 057 - 2523851
Email: adudakenwo@gmail.com
Lesotho
Mr. Denis Sekoja Phakisi
Acting National Coordinator
Manufacturing Manager
Loti Brick
P.O. Box 8008, Maseru 100, Lesotho
Tel: +266 5885 3389
Fax: +266 22310071
Email: ds.phakisi@lycos.com
Liberia
Dr. Wollor Emmanuel TOPOR
National Coordinator
Acting Dean
College of Science and Technology
University of Liberia
Tel: + 231-6875802
Email: wollortopor@yahoo.com
MalawiProf. Henry MLOZA-BANDA
Contacts
Prof. Henry MLOZA-BANDA
Professor of Agricultural Ecology
University of Malawi
Faculty of Agriculture
Lilongwe, Malawi
Cell: +265 888 854 123
Email:  mlozab@yahoo.co.uk
Mali
Dr. Sidiki Gabriel DEMBELE
Agrochimie/Agroforesterie et Fertilitédes sols
Bureau Ouest-Africain d’Appui
Organisational et de Technologies
Appropiées
B.P. E 3730, Bamako, Mali
Tél. : (223) 226 2012
Fax : (223) 226 2504
Cell : (223)   71 3806
Email: sidikigabriel@hotmail.com orousmanenia2000@yahoo.fr

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MoroccoProf. Dr. Saïd BOUJRAF
Proposed National Coordinator
Director of the Clinical Neuroscience
Laboratory
Department of Biophysics and Clinical
MRI Methods
Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy,
University of Fez
BP. 1893; Km 2.200, Sidi Hrazem Road,Fez 30000, MoroccoTel: +212 667 780 442
Fax: +212 535 619 321
E-mail: sboujraf@gmail.com
MozambiqueEng. Lourino Alberto CHEMANE
ICT and Planning Advisor
Executive Secretariat, ICT Policy
Commission
Bairro da Coop
Rua Particular Dr. Antonio de Almeida
61 R/C Direito, Maputo
MoçambiqueTel:    +258 21 309398
Fax:    +258 21 302289
Cell : +258 82 3110700
Email: chemane@infopol.gov.mz
NigeriaProf. Michael C. MADUKWEProfessor, Department of Agricultural
Extension
University of Nigeria
Nsukka, Enugu State
Nigeria
Tel:    +234 42 771019
Fax:    +234 42 771500
Cell: +234  803 700 6968
Email: madukwe@hotmail.com or
madukwemichael@yahoo.com

National Chapter Coordinators

Sierra Leone
Mr. Chris SQUIRE
Head, Dept of Mechanical Engineering
Fourah Bay College
University of Sierra Leone
Mount Auroel
PMB Freetown Sierra Leone
Tel:    +232 22 227831
Fax:    +232 22 227453
Cell:   +232 76 610600
Email:  squirechris15@yahoo.com
SenegalDr. Papa Alioune Sarr NDIAYEESP BP 15475 DAKAR Fann
SénégalTél : Bureau (221) 864 54 18
Fax : (221) 864 21 43
Domicile (221) 820 23 88
Cellulaire (221) 634 58 88
Email : pndiaye@ucad.sn or 		
papealiounen@yahoo.fr
South africa
Professor Mark SWILLING
Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1,
Matieland, 7602, South Africa
Cell: +27(0)83-459 7417
Tel: +27(0)21-881 3196
Fax: +27(0)21 - 881 3294
Email: swilling@sun.ac.za
Sudan
Mrs. Nadia Hassan SIDAHMED
Economic Studies Department
Industrial Research & Consultancy
Centre (IRCC)Sudan
Tel: +249 911449106
Email: nadiahsh@yahoo.co.uk

Prof. Femi OLOKESUSI
Nigerian Institute for Social andEconomic Research (NISER)
P.M.B 5 UI Post Office
Oyo Road, Ojoo, Ibadan, Nigeria
Tel:    +234 2 8103345/8102904
Fax:     +234 2 2413121
Email: femioloke@yahoo.com

Swaziland
Dr. Musa DUBE
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Agriculture
University of Swaziland
Luyengo Campus
P. O. Luyengo, Swaziland
Tel:    +268 527 40 21
Fax:   +268 527 40 21
Cell:    +268 618 15 79
Email: madube@agric.uniswa.sz

RwandavacantTanzania
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United Kingdom
Mrs. Martha Ada UGWU
Proposed National Coordinator
59 Highgrove Road
Walderslade, Chatham
Kent, ME5 7SF, UK
Tel: +4401634310389/07985476289
Email: Martha.ugwu@yahoo.co.uk
Martha@ugwu.fsworld.co.uk
UgandaMr. John Okuonzi
National Coordinator
ATPS Uganda Chapter
Kyambogo University
Faculty of Engineering, Department ofElectrical and Electronic Engineering,
P.O. Box 1, Kyambogo, kampala, uganda
Tel: +256 782 353034
E-mail: jokuonzi@kyu.ac.ug or
okuonzijohnie@yahoo.com
United states of America.
Dr. Anthony C IKEMENational Coordinator
President & CEO
Clintriad Pharma Services
102 Pickering Way, Suite 200
Exton, PA 19341
Tel: 484.753.3405
Cell: 215.380.9920
Fax: 610.384.5455
Email: aikeme@clintriad.com
ZambiaMs  Lilian  ZULU
Coordinator, Centre for Energy
Environment and Engineering Zambia(CEEEZ)  Ltd, 176 Parirenyatwa Road
Suite B. Fairview, P/B E721
Lusaka, Zambia
Tel/Fax: +260 211 223118
Email: ceeez@zamnet.zm;
lmunyeka@yahoo.com
Zimbabwe
Mr. Benson ZWIZWAI
Deputy Director
Institute of Development Studies
P. O. Box 880
Harare, Zimbabwe
Tel:    +263 4 333341/3
Fax:    +263 4 333345
Cell: +263 912245614
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