• Tanzania achievement of lower middle income status: why we must not celebrate as yet

    A new STIPRO Policy Brief is out. Here is a summary of what the Brief is all about: Tanzania has been declared to have moved from low to lower middle income country as from 2020. While this is a laudable achievement, given the low contribution of the manufacturing sector to the GDP and lack of the science, technology and innovation (STI) strategy to support the growth of this sector, further movement to the higher and equitable level of income can seriously be hampered, or even a possibility of a country slipping back to the previous, lowest level of income. To prevent this situation, the brief proposes a number of steps that should immediately be taken, including aligning industrial strategy with the STI strategy, and support of start-ups on agro-processing and other value adding ventures such as those in minerals and other natural resources – using latest technology available. To read more about the Brief  please Click Here 


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  • Press release: ENRICH in AFRICA – A new EU-Africa network, building capacity for European and African innovation actors, officially kicks-off activities

    ENRICH in Africa (EiA) – An online platform for supporting the EU-African Innovation Community officially kicked-off its activities in an online meeting in January. EiA, funded through the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme and coordinated by Steinbeis 2i in Germany, brings together many key stakeholders from the innovation landscape of Europe and Africa to address the needs for capacity development of incubators, accelerators, and entrepreneurs in both regions. The project aims to set-up a network of incubators and accelerators and build capacity for the delivery of quality services for European and African innovators as well as support the exchange of knowledge and co-creation activities between the two continents. The project will be extending the existing ENRICH network, also present in the USA, Brazil, and China, alongside the additional India network which also kicked off at the end of last year. In its initial phase, EiA activity will primarily connect European and African innovators to the high-quality services provided by the incubators and acceleration programmes engaged in the pilot phase. ”We are thrilled to be able to work with such a strong group of partners to add additional value to the innovation ecosystem of Europe and Africa. There is such…


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  • Think Tanks in Africa: Bridging Knowledge, Policy and Practice

    This film is a part of a series that captures key lessons learned by African Think Tanks that participated in the Think Tank Initiative over the last 10 years. This video features interviews with staff members from Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Research Organization (STIPRO). The story captures the challenges and opportunities that think tanks face across East and West Africa in their efforts to achieve economic, social and political change. The Think Tank Initiative (TTI) helped to strengthen policy research institutions – think tanks – in 20 developing countries over 10 years through a mix of core funding and support for capacity development. The stories in this video provide a first-hand account of how this support impacted think tanks in Africa.


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  • Africalics Pre-conference Meeting

    STIPRO in collaboration with UDSM and COSTECH held a one day meeting on 17th April 2019 with Tanzanian scholars  discussed the  upcoming fourth AfricaLics conference on 22-24th October 2019.  The objective of this  meeting was to increase the number of accepted papers from Tanzania in the AfricaLics conference in 2019. The Venue was at University of Dar es Salaam, Confucius Institute (CI) Conference Room, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.   Prof. Mohammed Sheikh…


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  • Thinking Industrialization and Energy In Tanzania

    STIPRO is planning to hold a one day multi stakeholder event and discuss Challenges and opportunities of energy for industrialization in Tanzania. The event is to take place on the 5th of October at the COSTECH conference room. The main objective of the roundtable event is to discuss challenges and opportunities of access to reliable energy for industrialization—addressing the information gap and charting the way forward. Key stakeholders are invited to participate and enrich the content and consequent outputs of this activity. Drawing from the long-standing experience in multi-stakeholder engagements and coordination of the national level policy dialogues, STIPRO brings together the key stakeholders on the energy and industrial development sectors for this roundtable. Invited participants for the roundtable will represent the policy and regulatory bodies from relevant government ministries and departments, energy and manufacturing investors, industry associations, international development agencies, academia and think tanks on energy and industrial sectors, and the press. Aside from the selected informed expert presentations, participants will be able to discuss and share their experiences and network. Topics…


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