Africa Science Diplomacy Education And Training For Sustainable Development (SD & ED)

The Africa Science Diplomacy Education and Training for Sustainable Development is a long term policy framework to address Africa’s most pressing challenges. It is the initiative of the ASDPN International, to strengthen Science Diplomacy education and training and develop an action plan for Africa, that covers formal and non-formal education, capacity building and information networking components, among others, and to explicitly include a focus on Science and Technology enhanced learning towards achieving the United Nations Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. This is justified by the fact that Africa continues to grapple with a myriad of threats and challenges that range from environment, health, agriculture, conflicts among others which can be addressed if there is proper education and training on Science Diplomacy for Sustainable Development at all levels.

The main objective of the Africa Science Diplomacy Education and Training programme is to raise community awareness on science and diplomacy towards Sustainable Development in Africa, while at the same time training and enhancing community education on Science and Diplomacy, through various formal education, training, lifelong learning and capacity building programmes and projects envisaged to fundamentally improve health care, agriculture, environment, science, as well as the societal and economic state of Africa for the benefit of the people of Africa and closely aligning these actions with the African Union Agenda 2063 and the United Nations Programmes on the Sustainable Development Goals.

ASDPN International will at all times and across all social levels work vigorously to ensure that gender issues are taken in to consideration when conceiving, examining, developing and implementing Science Diplomacy Education and Training for Sustainable Development in the continent.