Strategy to achieve Gender Responsiveness in the Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund (Rsif): 2020-2025

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Publication Date (Issue Year)

9-2020

Name of Author

Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund (Rsif)

Language

English

Abstract

Strategy to Achieve Gender Responsiveness in the Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund (Rsif): 2020-2025

Africa’s development challenges include how to increase agricultural productivity, move beyond resource extraction and farm-based enterprises towards higher value enterprises, reduce environmental degradation, achieve food and nutrition security, and tackle the triple disease burden (non-communicable, communicable, and reproductive health related). Advances in applied science, engineering, and technology (ASET) fields are essential to finding effective solutions to these complex development problems and will require harnessing Africa’s human resources, both women and men (Okeke et al., 2017; Tiedeu, 2019).1 Unfortunately, only a fraction of women’s potential contributions is currently being harnessed. Women make up 30% of researchers in science fields in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), roughly the same as the global average of 28% (Huyer, 2015). Data (Bunting et al., 2014) from nine flagship African universities for 2010/11 show female student enrolment in undergraduate and postgraduate science, engineering, and technology fields ranges from a low of 25% (Edward Mondlane University) to a high of 45% (Cape Town University and University of Mauritius)

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Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund (Rsif). (2020). Strategy to achieve Gender Responsiveness in the Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund (Rsif): 2020-2025., 1-38. Retrieved from https://thehive.icipe.org/rsif-reports-institutional-documents/1