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HSRC Annual Report 2016/17
PART B: Performance Overview
Socio-economic and Environmental Transformation of African Communities through Renewable Energy
The study is directed at unravelling the real and potential contribution of renewable energy technologies to the overall
national energy landscape in various countries. Data were collected in Tanzania, the DRC, Kenya, Mozambique and Ghana.
The Campus Lecture Series
As part of AISA’s capacity building mandate, this initiative enabled AISA researchers to present lectures to post-graduate
students at various universities in South Africa, with a special focus on research methodology and practical aspects of
empirical data collection in the field. About 435 students were reached during 2016/17.
The Africa Young Graduate Scholars (AYGS) Conference
Originally designed as one of AISA’s capacity development initiatives, the AYGS Conference targets emerging scholars
who are supported to showcase their scientific work during the conference. The conference was successfully held in
March 2017 in collaboration with the universities of Fort Hare and of Johannesburg. Selected papers from the conference
will be published in a special issue of the journal,
Africa Insight
.
AISA Press
The AISA Publications Unit is a conduit through which the research outputs of AISA are disseminated. Publications are
fromdiverse contributors with a keen interest in African affairs, and accommodate internal and external publishing clients.
Africa Insight
is the unit’s flagship journal and serves as a platform to collate and disseminate researched knowledge
on African affairs. The journal is an International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) and Department of Higher
Education and Training (DHET) accredited and peer-reviewed journal.
Performance
Apart from the journal, AISA also published several books and policy briefs (see Table 1).
Table 1: High level summary of publication outputs in 2016/17
Publications
Title/Volume
Africa Insight
Journal
(3 volumes)
(29 journal articles)
Volume 45
1
(4)
Volume 46
2
(1)
Volume 46
2
(2)
Books
(7)
(103 chapters)
Natural and human-induced hazards
1
Management and mitigation of acid mine drainage in South Africa
1
Regenerating Africa: Bringing African solutions to African problems
1
Peace education for violence prevention
1
Sizonqoba! Outliving AIDS in Southern Africa
1
New African thinkers: Agenda 2063: Drivers of change
2
Sustainability, climate change and the green economy
3
Policy briefs
(7)
Governing African extractives for development: Lessons from Ghana’s petroleum revenue
management law
1
Addressing terrorism threats around the globe: What Africa could learn from some of the
recent terrorist attacks around the world
1
Disrupting cycles of violence in Africa: Unlocking complex dimensions of human security
1
The G20’s role in improving quality of life through sustainable energy and urban
infrastructure in Africa
1
Culturally congruent sexuality education for Namibia
1
Levering m-governance innovations for active citizenship engagement
1
How inclusive is Namibia’s inclusive education policy?
1
¹ Publications with HSRC staff contributing to indicators 1.2, 1.3 and 1.8, but also including external contributions
² Collaborated publications through HSRC Press contributing to indicator 1.2
³ External contributor publications with no direct link to HSRC indicators, but forming part of a continued service delivery initiative in seeking
support funding for sustainability purposes and inclusion of broader knowledge to increase the African footprint and research development