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THE AERC 2020–2025 STRATEGIC PLAN

The Activities

These include:

» Conducting fundraising visits and submitting funding proposals to potential
funding partners;

» Establishing an AERC endowment fund and fundraising for it and its governance
linked to the Board;
» Establishing with targeted African governments country-specific capacity
building projects for policy analysis;

» Expanding membership of the AERC’s Central Bank Governors Forum;

» Expanding membership of the AERC Board to African regional institutions;

» Establishing partnerships with private-sector philanthropic foundations,
companies, and/or businesses;
» Conducting collaborative research in topical themes or areas of mutual interest/
benefit in partnership with private sector foundations;

» Partnering and conducting consultative conferences on macroeconomic issues
and the business environment with private sector foundations;

» Establishing a women’s scholarship fund in partnership with private sector
foundations in Africa;
» Acquiring permanent office space to house the AERC Secretariat; and

» Conducting AERC governance meetings.

The Outputs

These efforts will result in deepening of partnerships and sustaining of current funding
partners, with new ones established besides those in Europe and America who already
fund AERC. An endowment fund will be established. African governments will establish
country-specific, capacity-building projects for policy analysis. The Central Bank
Governors Forum membership will be expanded as will the African regional membership
of the AERC Board. Partnerships will be established with private-sector philanthropic
foundations and with a jointly established women scholarship fund. Collaborative
research projects and consultative conferences will be conducted jointly. The AERC will
be housed in a permanent office space.

Outcome 3: Raise participation of underrepresented countries and groups in AERC
research and graduate training to expand access.

To increase participation and obtain a critical mass of women and nationals from fragile
and post-conflict African nations benefitting from AERC’s capacity-building interventions
in both research and graduate training, AERC will:

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