The Webinar on the Response of Science Academies to the COVID-19 pandemic was organised by NASAC in collaboration with the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP). Sixty (60) participants were in attendance, mainly from the academies’ membership and secretariat staff. The inclusion and representation of national young academies was also noteworthy. In this report, this discussion on the […]

This book presents a selection of the presentations that were made in Dar es salaam Tanzania on March 8 – 10, 2018 during the international forum on “Women and Sustainable Development in Africa” sponsored by French Academy of Sciences, Network of African Science Academies (NASAC), The Tanzania academy of sciences (TAAS), Bill and Melinda Gates […]

Download and read the workshop summary report for “Decarbonisation of Transport in Africa: A transport planning perspective“!  Summary Report (English) Summary Report (French) Background Globally, nearly a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions come from the transportation sector. While much focus has understandably been placed on the largest CO2 emitting economies, there is an exciting […]

Please click here to download a copy of the report. There is growing evidence from reports of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that climate change is having detrimental effects on the health of the African population and is in turn cascading into other sectors such […]

In early 2020, members of NASAC Science Education Programme (SEP) Working Group resolved to undertake a baseline survey on the State of Science Education in Africa. The survey would enable NASAC review Science Education in the broad context of its availability as STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) in the curricula of different national education […]

Climate change is happening now in Africa! This is substantiated by the occurrence of prolonged severe droughts and desertification, periodic flash or perennial devastating floods, melting of ice caps, sea-level rise and pest invasion as illustrated in Plate 1. In addition to these climatic hazards, the vulnerability of the African population to climate change is […]

This opinion paper is written in the backdrop of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has severely affected the world (World Health Organization 2020b). While the pandemic has heavily affected people’s health and impacted their ability to earn a living, the question arises whether this impact has amplified existing gender inequalities . COVID-19 is an infectious […]

Please click here to download a copy of the AMASA 2021 report.