ARUA 2025 Conference Call for Papers

Conferences Grants @The African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) in Digital health & health technologies
  • Post Date : January 27, 2025
  • Apply Before : February 25, 2025
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Background
Africa possesses immense human and natural resources. Yet, the continent faces some of the most severe social and economic challenges worldwide. High rates of poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition, and insufficient healthcare continue to pose significant challenges in many African countries. The lingering impacts of colonialism, the slave trade, and ongoing geopolitical conflicts have left a lasting impact on the continent’s economic structures and its response to various forms of shocks. Infectious diseases disproportionately affect Africa compared to other regions, and labour productivity is only about 20% of the global average, hindering economic growth. This low productivity is further aggravated by inadequate use of technology, a mismatch of skilled labour and an uncompetitive business environment for private sector development. Also, corruption and poor governance have been associated with resource mismanagement and inadequate investment in infrastructure and public services.

Despite the myriad of interventions from various actors both from within and outside the continent, to address many of these challenges, including those of higher education institutions, recent findings suggest that progress has been limited. Africa performs quite poorly on several indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) including those on poverty, food insecurity as well as access to health care, clean water and energy, with little or no sign of transformation in the coming decades. Africa’s performance in attaining the targets set out in Agenda 2063 has been mixed, with notable progress in some areas alongside significant challenges in others. There is therefore an urgent need to adopt more holistic and new approaches to reverse these worsening trends, improve the quality of life and positively affect the path of transformation. Key to Africa’s transformation is research and innovation, and higher education institutions have a critical part to play in the process.

ARUA 2025 Conference Call for Papers

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  • Opportunity ID 9478
  • Types of opportunities ConferencesGrants
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