The Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Member Organization (SSARMO) includes 17 African countries* who are participating in the Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI) in Sub-Saharan Africa – a multi-partner, multi-institutional initiative established in 2015 aimed at strengthening institutional capacities of Science Granting Councils in the region.
The regional membership application was made in response to a statement of the 98th IIASA Council meeting in June 2021, which conceptualized a regional membership model aimed at bringing together multiple countries within a region, who are facing similar challenges, but may not have the means or capacity as individual countries to join IIASA as national members.
* Botswana, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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News
12 December 2023
Giacomo Falchetta receives the IAMC Best Online Poster Award
20 October 2023
Successful joint workshop supports equitable development in rural Africa
03 October 2023
Enhancing knowledge and capacity on water quality in Uganda
Events
Focus
09 November 2023
IIASA Connect: Building impactful regional communities
08 November 2023
Adapting water needs for agriculture in South Africa
Publications
Avidar, O. (2024). A holistic framework for evaluating and planning sustainable rural drinking water projects in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Rural Studies 107 e103243. 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103243. Jurasz, J., Guezgouz, M., Campana, P.E., Kaźmierczak, B., Kuriqi, A., Bloomfield, H., Hingray, B., Canales, F.A., Hunt, J. , Sterl, S., & Elkadeem, M.R. (2024). Complementarity of wind and solar power in North Africa: Potential for alleviating energy droughts and impacts of the North Atlantic Oscillation. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 191 e114181. Leip, D., Rovenskaya, E., & Wildemeersch, M. (2024). Risk-adjusted decision making can help protect food supply and farmer livelihoods in West Africa. Communications Earth & Environment 5 (1) e101. 10.1038/s43247-024-01242-9. Ghio, D., Goujon, A. , Natale, F., Alfredo, A., & Petroliagkis, T. (2023). Assessing populations exposed to climate change: a focus on Africa in a global context. Population and Environment 45 (4) e28. 10.1007/s11111-023-00439-y. Falchetta, G. , Semeria, F., Tuninetti, ., Giordano, V., Pachauri, S. , & Byers, E. (2023). Solar irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa: economic feasibility and development potential. Environmental Research Letters 18 (9) e094044. 10.1088/1748-9326/acefe5.