CODESRIA/OSSREA/AAPS : Inventory of the role Role of Regional Research Organisation in Africa/Dissemination Workshop - 10-11, April, 2003

in DOUALA, CAMEROON.

 Three - regional social science research organisations - CODESRIA, OSSREA, and AAPS - launched a study in 2001 to carry out an inventory of their role in social knowledge production and dissemination in Africa. The aim of the study is to establish, in a systematic manner, the ways in which by their work, the regional organisations contribute to the evolution of the African knowledge system especially at a time of crisis, reform and transformation in African higher education. The researchers who undertook the studies were requested to focus on four broad issues: the contribution of regional scientific organisations to social science knowledge production in and on Africa, their role in the dissemination of this knowledge, their input into the valorisation and use of their research results, and their relationships with the universities.

A Methodological Workshop, as well as a Review Workshop were organized as part of the process leading to the finalisation of the study. We are now at the point of disseminating the findings of the researchers to a wider, select group of scholars.