Africa
Seminar: Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Strategy for Africa (STISA-2024)
Organised by the Human Sciences Research Council (South Africa) Invited Presenters: Dr Mahama Ouedraogo Ag. Director of the AUC/HRST, African Union Commission Associate Professor Clapperton C. Mavhunga Program in Science, Technology and Society, MIT, USA Dr David Ockwell Deputy Director (Research), STEPS, University of Sussex, UK Senior official (tbc) Department of Science and Technology, RSA...
Realising the Transition: Addressing the challenges of low carbon energy and development in Africa
Royal Society 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, LondonThe ‘Rising Powers, Clean Energy and the Low Carbon Transition in Southern Africa’ team, are running a one day international workshop titled ‘Realising the Transition: Addressing the challenges of low carbon energy and development in Africa’ in London on February 3rd 2015. The workshop will mark the culmination of our ESRC project on The Rising...
STEPS Africa launch – Low carbon Africa: Development Pathways out of Poverty
Crowne Plaza Hotel Nairobi, KenyaThe STEPS Africa Sustainability Hub was officially launched on 12 June 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya at a workshop entitled Low carbon Africa: Development Pathways out of Poverty. The event brought together 100 international delegates drawn from government, industry, universities and civil society to explore and share ideas and approaches on pathways towards developing low carbon...
Low Carbon Development in Africa
This event aimed to shape the research, policy and practice agendas for low-carbon development in Africa. It was also the launch event for the STEPS Africa Sustainability Hub. Low Carbon Development in Africa workshop. Photo: STEPS Centre In Sub-Saharan Africa, two-thirds of people still lack access to electricity. Working for economic development and reducing poverty,...
Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS): Challenges of Nation-wide Scaling up and Sustainability
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomThis event will be live streamed (see below) and a video recording will be available afterwards. Since its innovation in Bangladesh in 2000, Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) has spread to more than 65 countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America where more than 400 million people are now living in open defecation free (ODF) environments....
STEPS Centre events at ‘Our Common Future’ conference
Various Paris, FranceFrom 8 - 10 July, STEPS Centre members will be participating in the international conference Our Common Future Under Climate Change in Paris. The conference comes ahead of the UN's COP21 conference in December. It looks at the state of knowledge about, and the range of responses to, climate change. Find out about our research...
COP21 side event: Climate Relevant Innovation-system Builders (CRIBs)
Salle 1, Climate Generations Area Le Bourget conference centre, Paris, FranceClimate Relevant Innovation-system Builders (CRIBs): how to strengthen the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism Climate Generations area, Salle 1 Le Bourget Conference Centre, Paris 4 December at 15.00-16.30 Listen to the audio recording COP21 side event: How to strengthen the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism by Stepscentre on Mixcloud About this session The session focuses on how the UNFCCC...
One Health for the Real World: zoonoses, ecosystems and wellbeing
This symposium, being held 17-18 March 2016 at the Zoological Society of London, will bring together leading experts from different fields to discuss the topic 'Healthy ecosystems, healthy people'. Co-organised by the STEPS-led Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium and ZSL, in partnership with the Royal Society, it will: Present new interdisciplinary frameworks for a real-world...
STEPS Seminar: Charles Tonui on the co-management of mangrove forest in Gazi Bay, Kenya
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United Kingdom‘The Role of Community Based Organisations and Associations in Co-management of Forests in Kenya: The case of Mikoko Pamoja Community Based Organisation (MPCBO) and Gogoni-Gazi Community Forest Association (GOGACFA) in the Co-management of Mangrove Forest in Gazi Bay, Kenya’ STEPS Seminar with Charles Tonui, African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), Kenya. All are welcome to...
Power and Methods (ARIN webinar)
14.30-16.30 (East Africa Time/Nairobi) 5 March 2021, online Subscribe to our Events newsletter During 2021, the African Research and Impact Network (ARIN) are convening a series of events and engagements on Methods. The ARIN events explore the question of Decolonising Methodologies to Sustainability in Africa. In the Global South, ‘coloniality’ has long been associated with...
SRI 2021: Showing leadership in sustainability science – Lessons from the Global South and beyond the academy
The upcoming 2021 Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress (SRI) is hosting a session on leadership in sustainability science, narrowing in on what lessons can be drawn from the Global South. Among the session's speakers are two STEPS Centre colleagues: D. Parthasarathy, co project leader of the TAPESTRY Project, and Joanes Atela of the STEPS Africa...