Description

Each year, the SGCI through Scinnovent convenes a Masterclass that brings together the Initiative's participating Councils and other key stakeholders around the world to deliberate and develop interventions in strategic areas of interest to the Councils and the wider science, technology and innovation (STI) community. To facilitate sharing of lessons and good practices, the SGCI commissions a state-of-the-art paper on a topic of interest for Africa's development to inform the Masterclass. The theme selected for 2020 was "Ethics and Integrity in Research and Innovation for Development" This policy brief resulted from a paper that was prepared for discussion during the Masterclass. The work leading to this policy brief was commissioned by the Scinnovent Centre under the Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI) for Sub-Saharan Africa. The authors and Scinnovent Centre acknowledge the funding support received from Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), South Africa's National Research Foundation (NRF), the United Kindom's Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO)) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).