South Africa
Official Name: Republic of South Africa
Capital: Pretoria (executive), Bloemfontein (judical) and Cape Town
(legislative)
Independence Day: 27 April 1994
Currency: South African Rand (ZAR)
Key Result
15,000 women and youth reached through four community-based projects implemented focused on drug rehabilitation, gender-based violence and skills development.
The Skills Initiative for Africa (SIFA) set up a financing facility to support innovative vocational training initiatives in South Africa.
More than 500 small scale livestock farmers on how to plant, process and use Tephrosia bio-acaricide have been trained with support of local leadership.
Sensitised Government officials to incorporate the Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) model into existing school feeding programmes, to ensure that school meals are locally sourced through a continent-wide mapping and experience sharing exercise.
85 Million hectares of land on the continent have been committed for restoration through the application of the restoration opportunities assessment methodology by 2030. South Africa committed 3.6 million hectares.
700 traditional council members committed to mainstream climate change in agriculture in their communities, based on A Provincial Early Action Strategy (REAS) documented and disseminated for the Kwa-Zulu Natal Province. Furthermore, the strategy was translated into the local language IsiZulu and disseminated to 1200 change agents.
Related
Projects
African Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation (AMRH)
A critical AU Model Law aimed at harmonizing medical products regulatory systems in Africa was endorsed by African Heads of State and Government at the January 2016 AU Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The AU Model Law will contribute towards accelerate the regulation of safe, quality and affordable medical products and technologies in South Africa.
South Africa has a registered RCORE specialized in quality assurance and quality control of medicines called North West University (NWU) – Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa – WHO Collaborating Centre for the Quality Assurance of Medicines. RCOREs are institutions with specific academic and technical regulatory science expertise and training capabilities capable of producing regulatory workforce in Africa.
African Union Smart Safety Surveillance (AU-3S) Programme
African Union Smart Safety Surveillance (AU-3S)
Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP)
CAADP Implementation: South Africa launched the CAADP implementation process on the 20 October 2011 and is working towards signing compact.
Provincial stakeholder consultations were completed as an input to the national CAADP Compact and Investment Plan.
NEPAD also supported South Africa in conducting an agriculture public expenditure review.
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Food and Nutrition Security
Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) programmes: Following the completion of three case studies in Southern Africa (Botswana, Namibia and South Africa), individual countries were sensitised to incorporate the Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) model into existing school feeding programmes, and ensuring that procurement for the programmes was locally sourced.
A mapping of existing school feeding programmes (both regular and Home-Grown-School Feeding HGSF models) in Africa was completed and shows that close to 90 per cent of countries have implemented school feeding programmes, with a growing number adopting the HGSF model.
Programme for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC): Integrating the care and support of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVCs) into the implementation of Home-Grown-School-Feeding Programmes (HGSF) was advanced through a pilot programme in Kenya and Nigeria with the aim to ensure that OVCs are targeted for school feeding and given additional skills to prepare them to be more self-reliant. A situation analysis report for South Africa was completed as part of sharing best practices on OVC support.
Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA)
Project : TAH programme
Description : This is phase I of the continental connectivity programme that focuses on completion and standardisation of the TAH missing links by 2030
Project : Single African Sky phase 1 (design and initial implementation)
Description : Single African Sky is a continental programme that will create a high-level, satellite-based air navigation system for the African continent
Project : Yamoussoukro Decision implementation
Description : Accelerate Yamoussoukro Decision implementation by identifying countries that are ready to fully implement it, and discussing and agreeing with both their governments and airlines to launch the voluntary club on a full membership basis;
Project : ICT Enabling Environment
Description : This programme would improve the environment for the private sectors to invest in high-speed broadband infrastructure
Project : ICT Terrestrial for Connectivity
Description : This programme has two main components: secure each country connection by at least two broadband infrastructure and ensure the access to submarine cable to all landlocked countries
Project : Internet Exchange Point (IXP) programme
Description : The aim of this programme is to provide Africa with adequate internet node exchange to maximise internal traffic
Project : North–South Power Transmission Corridor
Description : 8,000 km line from Egypt through Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe to South Africa
Project : Central African Interconnection
Description : 3,800 km line from the DRC to South Africa through Angola, Gabon, Namibia and to the north to Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon and Chad
Project : North-South Multimodal Corridor
Description : This programme is designed to modernize the highest priority multimodal ARTIN corridor in Southern Africa on modern standards and facilitate travel of people and goods across the borders between South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and DRC
Project : Southern Africa Hub Port and Rail Programme
Description : This programme aims at responding to Southern Africa challenge in developing sufficient port capacity to handle future demand from both domestic sources and landlocked countries
Project : Lesotho HWP Phase II – water transfer component
Description : Water transfer programme supplying water to Gauteng Province in South Africa
African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100)
Rural Futures
Fish Governance and Trade
Gender
Results:
•359 291 women capacitated through CSO and grassroots organizations including 92 Local authorities and state government in the six geopolitical zone of Nigeria. Namibia 13 Council has implemented Action Plan for Gender Aware Service Delivery and 384 Parliamentarian in the region of Tigray, Amhara and Somalia facilitated research support from 250 graduated students for Gender Aware Parliamentarian Oversight.
•74 435 women empowered economic and financial terms: Income generation skills; Deployment of technical assistance to boost agriculture production for both consumption and commercial purposes; Accessing agricultural extension services; Promotion of gender inclusiveness in decision making; Creation of enabling environment to access land; Land tenure and legalization of land title for women; Youth job creation; SME management; Informal and Regional Trade development.
•25 438 women support through institutional based capacity building
74 435 women empowered economic and financial terms: Income generation skills; Deployment of technical assistance to boost agriculture production for both consumption and commercial purposes; Accessing agricultural extension services; Promotion of gender inclusiveness in decision making; Creation of enabling environment to access land; Land tenure and legalization of land title for women; Youth job creation; SME management; Informal and Regional Trade development.
25 438 women support through institutional based capacity building
Climate Change Fund
Use of Agro-Meteorological information towards Climate Change Adaptation
Two Results Levels:
National Level-
• Extension agents trained at provincial level;
• Extension agents trained at district level;
• Farmers trained at provincial level;
• Farmers trained at district level;
• Report on Data Analysis;
• Regional/Provincial Early Action Strategy (REAS) documented and disseminated;
Regional Level- Kwazulu Natal Province
• 700 Traditional Council members in KZN committed to minimizing practices contributing to climate change in their communities
• Clear understanding and definition of climate change in IsiZulu amongst the 1200 participants consulted established
• Partnerships established, with four areas of collaboration agreed; including: Climate Smart Agriculture practice; studies and information on climate change and agriculture nexus; integration of youths into possible opportunities that investment in climate change adaptation will create, and management and strengthening of ecosystem services
African Science Technology and Innovation Indicators (ASTII)
The project was introduced in South Africa in September 2007, although the country had prior experience in R&D data collection and on innovation dating back to 2002 and 2005 respectively.
The ASTII project is overseen by the Department of Science and Technology and implemented by the Centre of Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (CeSTII) under the Human Sciences research Council (HSRC).
Using its own resources, the country carried out both R&D and Innovation surveys. Moreover, South Africa supported the NEPAD/ASTII team since the inception of ASTII and continues to share its experiences with other AU member States during NEPAD/ASTII in-country training workshops. Accordingly, the country has an observer’s status during annual meetings of the OECD Working Party of National Experts on Science and Technology Indicators (NESTI).
Data for both R&D and Innovation core indicators of the country were collected and featured in the first African Innovation Outlook report (AIO-2010) as well as in the second (AIO-2014).
Contact: Mr. Godfrey Mashamba (godfrey.mashamba@dst.gov.za), Chief Director/General manager, S&T Investment, Department of Science and Technology ; and Dr Neo Molotja (NMolotja@hsrc.ac.za), Senior Research Specialist.
Websites: http://www.dst.go.za and www.hsrc.ac.za/en/departments/cestii
Capacity Development
Results (2013 – 2015)
Advocacy and Strengthening of Negotiation Capacities on Post-2015 Development Agenda through the Common African Position (CAP):
• The multi-stakeholder framework of engagement specifically enhanced dialogue towards ensuring the required mass to influence the Post-2015 Global Agenda and Development Goals relevant to the Continent;
• This intervention helped strengthen country and regional level negotiating capacities for the effective incorporation and articulation of Africa’s priorities as enshrined in CAP in the final Global SDGs;
• The project enabled the participation of African stakeholders at the Means of Implementation Engagement, 3rd Financing for Development Conference and the UN General Assembly that adopted the new SDGs. This ensured the incorporation of Africa’s development priorities into the new goals through developing essential negotiation capacities;
• Through the CAP/SDGs space on the Africa Platform for Development Effectiveness (APDev), knowledge products and negotiation documents, as well as, policy briefs where successfully disseminated to the African negotiators in New York and kept the continent’s stakeholders informed of the overall process;
• Development and dissemination of post-2015 Policy Briefs on “Financing and Partnerships” and “Structural Economic Transformation and Inclusive Growth”. These are priorities outlined in the CAP and the policy briefs where utilized in the negotiation process for the African continent.
Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC):
• Africa secured the hosting of the 2nd High Level Meeting (HLM) of the Global Partnership. This was attained through robust negotiation and facilitating a common voice from Africa with regards to this critical engagement by the NEPAD Agency. The 2nd HLM will be held in Nairobi Kenya;
• The NEPAD Agency advocated for the full inclusion and participation of Africa’s Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in conducting the 2nd GP Monitoring Exercise. This was a fundamental achievement considering the RECs are the continent’s building blocks with regards to socio-economic transformation;
• The Africa Action Plan on Development Effectiveness (AAP) was granted the status of an official Global Partnership Initiative (GPI) at the Planning Meeting in Brussels. The AAP was developed by the NEPAD Agency in consultation with African multi stakeholders. This has enabled the Agency to successfully mobilize resources towards the implementation of the AAP.
Presidential Infrastructure Champion Initiative (PICI)
Project : North-South Corridor Road/Rail Project
Description : Construction of a multi-modal trans-continental interconnector
Description : The use of political gravitas and goodwill to unblock and facilitate political bottlenecks affecting the implementation of ICT broadband and optic fibre projects on the continent
Africa UN Food Systems Summit Knowledge Hub
Agriculture Technical Vocational Education and Training (ATVET)
African Institute for Mathematical Science (AIMS) – Next Einstein Initiative
Project: AIMS- South Africa
Decsription: AIMS South Africa is a centre for education and research in Cape Town, South Africa. AIMS South Africa was established in 2003 as a partnership project of the following 6 universities: Cambridge, Cape Town, Oxford, Paris Sud XI, Stellenbosch, and Western Cape. AIMS centres operate in Senegal, Ghana, Cameroon, and Tanzania.
Country Results:
By December 2015, 13 graduates joined the AIMS South Africa alumni group which brings the total number of graduates to 591 of which 30% are women from 35 different African countries, since the Institute was opened in 2003. In total, 47 South Africans (including 16 women) have graduated from AIMS South Africa.
Bursaries for South African students at AIMS are provided by the National Skills Fund"