Research
SAIIA's research agenda is informed by South Africa and Africa's international engagement on key issues related to addressing the continent's political and economic marginalisation; furthering good governance and political stability in the region, and ensuring that Africa is placed on a more sustainable growth path. SAIIA achieves these objectives by doing solid, forward-looking research on issues of concern to the continent, by building research capacity in South Africa and the region, by providing a platform for informed debate and by making input into policymaking on issues of concern to Africa. Our research agenda is thus strongly policy focused and is clustered according to both thematic and country/region-specific themes.
The thematic clusters are: Governance and Democracy (both at a national and a continental level); Trade and Investment (at a country, continental and multilateral level); Emerging Powers & Global Challenges; and Security and Conflict Resolution (mostly directed at South Africa and Africa's role in addressing conflict and insecurity in the region with partners from the north). Our country/region specific programmes are divided into two clusters: South African foreign policy engagement and our African Drivers Programme. The last research cluster on SAIIA's research agenda straddles both region/country-specific research and global themes such as climate change, gender, global governance and migration. However, all our research themes are of a cross-cutting nature.
