African NYAs: SCIENTIFIC INPUT TO ACHIEVING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs)

1. Name and Academy

Name:
Academy:
Role in Academy:

The science academies and global policy frameworks

2. How do you see the role of African science academies -- whether young or senior -- in helping to implement politically endorsed global and regional policy frameworks, such as the SDGs and AU's STISA 2024? Please be as specific as possible.

What your academy is doing now

3. To what extent does your academy engage with the SDGs and/or STISA 2024 and their respective implementation?

Which SDGs and/or STISA 2024 priorities have explicitly been discussed in meetings/workshops of your academy?

Since January 2014, has your academy published (or is about to publish) academy reports/outputs that are relevant to the SDGs and/or STISA 2024, and – if so -- to which goals/themes specifically? Please give details of these outputs.

In the next 12-18 months, is your academy planning to work on goals/themes relevant to the SDGs and/or STISA 2024?

Which ones?

4. Has your academy identified any particular goals or themes under the SDGs and/or STISA 2024 that warrant particular attention?

If so, what are they?

5. To what extent is your academy involved in providing policy advice in general at a (i) local, (ii) national, (iii) regional/continental, or (iv) global level, either on its own or in collaboration with other academies/partners?

Space Cell	Regularly Involved	Occasionally Involved	Never Involved
(i) Local	(i) Local: Regularly Involved	(i) Local: Occasionally Involved	(i) Local: Never Involved
(ii) National	(ii) National: Regularly Involved	(ii) National: Occasionally Involved	(ii) National: Never Involved
(iii) Regional/Continental	(iii) Regional/Continental: Regularly Involved	(iii) Regional/Continental: Occasionally Involved	(iii) Regional/Continental: Never Involved
(iv) Global	(iv) Global: Regularly Involved	(iv) Global: Occasionally Involved	(iv) Global: Never Involved

What your country is doing now

6. To what extent, and how, is your country responding to its political obligation to implement the SDGs and STISA 2024?

Is your country prioritizing particular goals/themes?

If so, which ones?

Do you know who your national (heads of) delegation to the UN and AU are?

If so, are you in frequent contact with them regarding implementation of the SDGs?

Does your national (senior) academy play a role in this process?

If so, how?

If no, why not?

7. Are members of your academy appointed to positions within government departments or fulfilling advisory roles within your government? If yes, do they formally engage/seek advice from your academy/other academy members?

If yes, what works well?

If no, why not?

8. Have you cooperated with your national (senior) science academy on research and/or policy issues related to these policy frameworks?

If yes, in what way? What works well, what less so?

If no, why not? What would help facilitate this cooperation?

9. Do you know of a country you think is exemplary in its implementation of the SDGs and/or STISA 2024? If yes please specify and include what makes it exemplary?

Supporting the activities of your Academy

10. Do you know of examples of good practice (recent reports/projects/initiatives) relevant to the SDGs and/or STISA2024 that this project could draw on as case studies? If so, please give details. These should already have demonstrated impact (please specify).

11. How can this IAP project strengthen these existing initiatives?

12. If this IAP project could address two specific areas relevant to the implementation of global and regional policy frameworks, what would they be?

13. Is there a specific initiative your Academy would like to undertake in relation to the aims of the project for which you would like to receive support?

14. Who within your academy has been involved in completing this questionnaire?

African NYAs: SCIENTIFIC INPUT TO ACHIEVING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs)

A survey of the African national science academies to inform a new IAP project and support academies’ advice