Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE)
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2011)
Reporting Period: 2011
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI)
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- Relatively weak national innovation systems in most African countries.
- Lack of requisite scientific and technological capabilities to effectively apply STI for development.
- Limited public expenditure on R&D.
- Weak institutional linkages and collaboration.
- Poor R&D infrastructure.
- Low levels of technological readiness and innovation capacity.
- Shortage of skilled scientific manpower.
- Underdeveloped or nonexistent venture capital and other financial instruments for innovation.
- Lack of coordination among regional and international institutions supporting STI in Africa.
Mitigation Strategies
- Develop explicit national innovation policies with clear benchmarks and implementation strategies.
- Increase government spending on STI to at least 3% of national budgets.
- Invest in science, engineering, and entrepreneurship skills training.
- Improve R&D and science infrastructure.
- Establish funding agencies dedicated to funding public and private R&D and innovation activities.
- Invest in capacity building in innovation policy development and promote regional innovation policy dialogue.
- Develop regional innovation strategies and build alliances for funding regional innovation activities.