Forskningssamarbete med UNESCO 2020-2022 Research Cooperation with UNESCO 2020-2022 Detta initiativ syftar till att stärka bräckliga STI-system och styrning i utvalda afrikanska länder, med målet att uppnå följande effekter: medlemsstaterna genomför UNESCOs rekommendation om forskning och forskare (RS|SR 2017) och stärker därmed transdisciplinära och inkluderande STI-system mot uppnåendet av SDG och utvecklingsagendan för Afrikanska unionen 2063.

För detta ändamål kommer de specifika föreslagna åtgärderna att kombineras för att säkerställa att initiativets resultat är att intressenter i 6 pilotländer - nämligen Ghana, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Tanzania, Moçambique och Zimbabwe - vidtar åtgärder för att stärka sina nationella och regionala STI-policyer, styrning av STI och institutioner inom forskning och innovation i enlighet med RS|SR 2017. Dessutom kommer en kontinentalt påverkanskampanj söka säkerställa att RS|SR 2017 nyttiggörs utanför de 6 pilotländerna.

I varje pilotland kommer effektiv bevakning av RS|SR 2017s tillämpning, i slutet av 2021, att ge både riktmärken mot vilka STI-system kan bedömas; och ett ramverk för riktat policystöd som syftar till att utveckla bevakningskapacitet och kapacitet att planera konkreta åtgärder för att göra framsteg mot riktmärkena. This UNESCO initiative aims at strengthening fragile STI systems and governance in selected African countries with the objective of achieving the following impact: Member States implement The UNESCO 2017 Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers (2017 RS|SR), thereby strengthening transdisciplinary and inclusive STI systems towards the achievement of the SDGs and the African Union 2063 Development Agenda.

To this end, the specific proposed actions will combine to ensure, as the output of the initiative, that stakeholders in 6 pilot countries - namely Ghana, Sierra Leone, Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Namibia and Zimbabwe - are taking measures to strengthen their national and regional STI policies, governance of STI, and institutions in research and innovation in accordance with the 2017 RS|SR. In addition, continental advocacy for the 2017 RS|SR will seek to ensure that benefits extend beyond the 6 pilot countries.

In each pilot country, effective monitoring of the 2017 RS|SR will provide, by end 2021, both a benchmark against which STI systems can be assessed and a framework for targeted policy support to develop both monitoring capacity and the capacity to plan concrete nationally contextualized action to make progress against the benchmark. Insatsens överripande mål är följande:

"strengthening fragile STI systems and governance in selected African countries with the objective of achieving the following impact: African societies create, curate and use scientific knowledge to make inclusive and evidenced-informed decisions, improving the quality of life and resilience of their citizens, and contributing to the achievement of SDGs 9.5, 16.6, 16.7, 17.6 and 17.18, the African Union 2063 Development Agenda (Aspirations, 1,2 and 7) and STISA2024". 

Denna inverkan ska åstadkommas genom att följande resultat uppnås:

"the specific proposed actions will ensure that governments and national science institutions in six pilot countries are taking measures to strengthen their national and regional STI policies, governance of STI, and institutions in research and innovation in accordance with UNESCO's 2017 Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers (2017 RS|SR). In addition, Africa-wide advocacy for the 2017 RS|SR will ensure that benefits extend beyond the six pilot countries and lessons learnt on good practices of coalition of scientific collaboration in response to the SDGs are shared".

I detta syfte avser insatsens att producera konkreta resultat på fäljande fem olika nivåer, i form av output-mål:

1. Preliminary assessment and benchmarking of pilot countries national STI systems against the standards defined by the 2017 RS|SR and the AU Agenda 2063 supported in an inclusive and participatory manner

2. Awareness of and commitment to the 2017 RS|SR and its 10 key areas among African governments and science institutions raised by targeted advocacy in support of its relevance to SDG challenges

3. Capacity of government officials, policy makers and researchers strengthened in-country to design inclusive STI policies that better implement the 2017 RS|SR and support the SDGs

4. National governments in pilot countries empowered to report in an inclusive and participatory manner on the implementation of the 2017 RS|SR

5. Policy advice and technical support to government officials and policy makers provided to facilitate development of Action Plans to strengthen their national and regional STI policies, governance of STI, and institutions in research and innovation in accordance with the 2017 RS|SR and on the basis of the monitoring conducted under Output 4.