<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://en.unesco.org/system/files/Fostering%20Open%20Access%20to%20Scientific%20Research%20and%20Scholarly%20Publications%20(OA)%20in%20Africa.pdf">https://en.unesco.org/system/files/Fostering%20Open%20Access%20to%20Scientific%20Research%20and%20Scholarly%20Publications%20(OA)%20in%20Africa.pdf</a><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
</div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><b><font color="#ff0000"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The project will aim to examine an inclusive and participatory modality to implement Open <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
</div></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Access to Scientific Information and Research (OA) and develop approaches for upstream <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
</div></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">policy advice and building partnerships for OA and strengthen capacities at various levels to <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
</div></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">foster Open Access. <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div></span></font></b></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
<br></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div></span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Recent reviews on Africa’s quest to achieve MDGs have provided ample evidences that as <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
</div></font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">the continent enters a new era of sustainable development, access to knowledge are still <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
</div></span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">uncertain, which is in turn causing lapses in providing economic security, literacy, and <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
</div></span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">creating opportunities for innovations. As a result, with all of the progress in Africa, poverty is <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
</div></span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">still the only prospect, and hunger a condition of life, for a shockingly large portion of the <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
</div></span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">continent's people</span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
</div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">. UN has collectively upgraded the context of Knowledge in its <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div></span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
</div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">development dialogue and now regards it as a “Knowledge challenge”. <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div>
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