Advancing the 2030 Agenda in African cities through knowledge co-production

Buyana, Kareem; Paulavets, Katsia; McClure, Alice; Oni, Tolu; Visagie, Justin; Croese, Sylvia; Ambole, Amollo; Osano, Philip; Wantim, Mabel

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“…This addresses academic, sectoral, and cultural asymmetries by engaging in meaningful dialogue early on during conceptualisation. Allowing the space for stakeholders to express their aspirations encouraged an inclusive process that leveraged stakeholders' expertise, skills, and resources (Buyana et al, 2020). Inclusivity also addressed unequal power relations, especially in LMIC contexts, by ensuring fair and equitable distribution of resources, division of labour, and benefits and risks of research (Gunasekara, 2020).…”

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“…Academic structures and traditions, in many cases, presented significant constraints to relational and individual factors. Disciplinary structures and cultures are deeply entrenched in academia, creating epistemological and methodological differences that can hamper relational factors such as communication and understanding (Bark et al, 2016; Buyana et al, 2020; Datta, 2018; Ely et al, 2020; OECD, 2020; Pohl et al, 2010; Roy et al, 2013). Discipline‐specific heuristics, including ideas of rigour and validity, can be a formidable barrier, especially among distant disciplines, for example, across HASS and STEM (Clark, Tomich, et al, 2016; Marzano et al, 2006; OECD, 2020).…”

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“…Another highly cited enabler is employing an adaptive project management approach that embraces complexity by allowing for flexibility in time and resource allocation and managing different stakeholders' priorities (Datta, 2018; Ely et al, 2020; Norström et al, 2020; OECD, 2020). In LMIC contexts, flexible project structures encouraged greater local engagement by enabling learning, building ownership and commitment, and allowing autonomy in priority‐setting and implementation (Buyana et al, 2020; Ely et al, 2020; Ridde & Cappelle, 2011; Sillitoe, 2018; van Breda & Swilling, 2018). In addition, project managers play facilitator, integrator, and synthesiser roles essential in managing communication, establishing group dynamics, achieving balanced participation, promoting understanding between stakeholders, and ensuring all backgrounds and knowledge were valued (Bark et al, 2016; Black et al, 2019; Clarke et al, 2017; Cundill et al, 2018; OECD, 2020; Pohl et al, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Contributing to the achievement of sustainable development goals: knowledge on water, sanitation and health risk in Cotonou and Lomé cities

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The paper explores how a project implemented in the framework of the LIRA2030 Africa programme is contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) on water, sanitation and health in the West African coastal cities of Cotonou (Benin) and Lomé (Togo). Based on co-produced knowledge on water, sanitation and health risks, collected through a transdisciplinary approach, we investigated socio-ecological sanitation and the applicability of an Ecohealth model to support SDGs 3, 6 and 11. According to our findings, the basis for the achievement of SDGs in these cities lies in addressing bad sanitation and hygiene related to a linear urban metabolism, poor groundwater quality and the occurrence of health risks (malaria, gastroenteritis, diarrheal). In this regard, the projects contributed by developing socioecological sanitation facilities for groundwater quality improvement and protection and for health risk reduction. An Ecohealth model was also developed to help improve and maintain the quality of groundwater in the study cities to promote healthy living and for sustainability. Social impacts of the SDG achievement could really help in sustainable development and the well-being in the coastal West African cities.

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“…Schaal, 2008) to a more grounded understanding of it as a dynamic, iterative process of knowledge exchange among all the actors involved (Boswell and Smith, 2017). Buyana et al (2020) note that knowledge co-production has particular relevance for African cities, as it can help both researchers and policy makers to "anchor" global aspirations-such as those expressed in the SDGs -in the realities of local contexts. Buyana et al, citing the "complexity" and "uniqueness" of African cities, go on to make a case for increasing the scholarship on knowledge co-production emanating from researchers embedded in these contexts.…”

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“These are the realities”: insights from facilitating researcher-policymaker engagement in Nigeria’s household energy sector

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Energy has been a key focus of government policy in Nigeria for decades, yet little improvement has been seen in rates of access among the population. Our paper assesses the inputs to policymaking in this context and interrogates the role of scientific evidence and knowledge co-production in the process. Through key informant interviews and participatory workshops with stakeholders, we addressed the practical question of how to strengthen the contribution of evidence to national energy policymaking processes. Two windows of opportunity were identified for this: the critical stage of problem definition; and the time lag between policy adoption and implementation. By engaging proactively with policymakers on these fronts, academic researchers working in knowledge co-production arrangements can make quick inroads into a policy space that has largely excluded them to date. This case is instructive for academics and knowledge brokers in similar contexts where a diminished status for scientific evidence might make more ambitious exchanges with policy difficult, to begin with.

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Advancing the 2030 Agenda in African cities through knowledge co-production

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Enabling transdisciplinary research collaboration for planetary health: Insights from practice at the environment‐health‐development nexus

Enabling transdisciplinary research collaboration for planetary health: Insights from practice at the environment‐health‐development nexus

Contributing to the achievement of sustainable development goals: knowledge on water, sanitation and health risk in Cotonou and Lomé cities

“These are the realities”: insights from facilitating researcher-policymaker engagement in Nigeria’s household energy sector

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