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Break-out session 2
Group 3: Capacity development
Chair: Gordon, Christopher
Rapporteur/ presenter: Sepo Hachigonta
Transition Team member: Heide Hackmann
What do we mean by Capacity
Building?
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Researchers
Supporting mechanisms for researchers
Institutions
Decisions makers
Systemic
Development partners
Practicing community
Any Future Earth Support projects should have a capacity
building component
What work is on-going in the region?
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Open society foundation (Curriculum)
CCAA- climate change adaptation
START
SARUA
GARP
CODESA (Research and action +REDD)
ANSTI
CCAFSS
AfriCAN climate – EU
Cornege
TRECCE
MASMA
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Missing capabilities of existing
initiatives as relates to Future Earth
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Mapping the landscape to learn best practices
Research in transformational praxis
Capacity building in Transformation praxis
Capacity Building of academic researchers of
Africa (Ourselves) to understand the Future Earth
vision
Who are the key actors? Which additional actors need to be
engaged?
 Open society foundation (Curriculum)
 CCAA- climate change adaptation
 START
 SARUA
 GARP
 CODESA (Research and action +REDD)
 ANSTI
 CCAFSS
 AfriCAN climate – EU
 Cornege
 TRECCE
 MASMA
 African academe of science
List is Endless
Gaps and Needs for Future Earth
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Integrated science
Ensuring that capacity building is integral and cross cutting among
all future earth programmes
Platforms for sharing information - ICT
Looking at success stories
Use of joint degrees to be encouraged.
Isolated project vs. coupled/ consortium funding
Funders to target leadership building
Leadership training
Brain drain /gain
Mapping and assessment of who is doing what - future earth to fill
identified gaps
New capabilities needed in context of
Future Earth
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Development of experts* who can work in trans
disciplinary sectors
Science, policy research capacity
Science management
Enhancing community of practice (COP)
Need for up-scaling and out scaling
Need for integration
Monitoring effectiveness of policies
Influencing science and tech training- Educators
Capacity to collaborate
Knowledge mediation
Tool to monitor policy effectiveness
Communication skills
Take Home Message
Capacity Building is a long tern activity
Possible role for FE in resource mobilization
Success of Future Earth depends on systemic Capacity
Development driven by Africans for Africans