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THE AERC 2020–2025 STRATEGIC PLAN




                 Contents




               Vision, Mission, Objectives, and Core Values                                            i

               List of Tables                                                                         iii

               List of Charts                                                                         iv

               List of Figures                                                                        iv


               List of Acronyms                                                                       v

               Foreword                                                                              vii

               Executive Summary                                                                      ix




               About the African Economic Research Consortium                                         1

               Capacity Building Success Story                                                        3

               Thirty Years of Evolution                                                              4

               Regional and Global Influence                                                          8

               Changing Regional Dynamics                                                            11

               AERC and the Future of  Economic Capacity Building                                    12

               The 2020–2025 Strategic Plan                                                          15

               Strategic Alignment with International and Regional Development Goals                 15

               2020–2025 Strategic Goal                                                              16

               Strategic Themes                                                                      16

               The AERC Governance and Management                                                    35


               AERC Risk Management                                                                  38
               Monitoring and Evaluation for Strategic Plan 2020–2025                                41


               Financing the Strategy                                                                43

               Appendix I: Innovation Incubator Concept                                              52

               Appendix II: Theory of Change                                                         53

               Appendix III: Monitoring and Evaluation Proposed Framework                            70

               Appendix IV: Monitoring and Evaluation Plan                                           82




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