Africa is undergoing multiple multidimensional changes, including rapid population growth, profound transformations in lifestyles and consumption patterns, massive climatic, economic, technological and environmental changes, considerable internal and external migration, unprecedented rates of urbanization, and an epidemiological transition marked by a combination of high-prevalence communicable and non-communicable diseases.
These upheavals have implications for public policies aimed at raising living standards, improving health, fostering environmentally-friendly development and consolidating governance. The scale and speed of these changes, and the challenges they pose, justify researchers from different disciplines working together to better understand the processes at work and to be more useful to decision-makers.
IPORA is a young network, eager to develop while taking the time to lay solid foundations that will enable it to operate over the long term and to deepen each of its chosen research areas
Solid foundations means :
- Good international partnership practices (shared governance, transparency, equity),
- Good research practices (compliance with ethical, regulatory and methodological standards),
- A lucid analysis of asymmetrical geostrategic interests
- A thoughtful approach to interdisciplinarity
