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Knowledge Generation

The Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (OSAA)¡¯s strategic role is articulated in its strategic agenda. Its implementation hinges on a comprehensive and broad-based collaboration featuring a partnership and technical cooperation framework, which catalyzes Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 17, and Aspiration 7 of the African Union's Agenda 2063, as they lie at the heart of both development frameworks and articulate mechanisms for collaboration and joint action on thematic areas of mutual interest.

OSAA¡¯s strategic agenda is clustered around six thematic areas of intervention which inform its knowledge generation work:

1. Financing for Development: Access to financing, combat Illicit financial flows, enhancing international tax cooperation, engaging credit rating agencies, and reducing the cost of remittances.

2. Sustainable Development to Promote Sustainable Peace: inclusive and equal institutional practices by countering conflict economies and build cohesive diverse societies as a driving force for peace.

3. Governance, Resilience and Human Capital: human capital at the center of policymaking in Africa toward resilient societies.

4. Science Technology and Innovation: closing the gap on digital literacy and digital divide; tackling intellectual property rights to achieve a leapfrog development.

5. Industrialization, Demographic Dividend, and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA): Harness the demographic dividend to stimulate industrialization through African Continental Free Trade Area.

6. Energy and Climate Action: Africa¡¯s energy mix, climate change and green growth, energy transition, and environmental policies.