The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) is a constituting office of the Open Society Foundation. OSISA’s core mandate is the promotion of democracy and good governance and human rights advocacy. OSISA’s work on South Africa often is intertwined with the evolving Emerging Powers, especially China and the BRICS, in Africa. (Carayannis & Olin, 2012)
Website: http://www.osisa.org/
Fahamu is a pan-African organisation that collaborates with social movements and grassroots organizations to tackle the causes of social injustice in Africa. Fahamu supports and addresses the needs of economically oppressed communities and vulnerable and marginalised segments of the society for people-centred and democratised change. Fahamu further strengthens and nurtures movements for social justice by generating and sharing knowledge to serve activism; bridging the gap between theory and practice; capacity building for civil society actors; public policy advocacy and creating platforms for analysis and debate.
Through its Emerging Powers in Africa project, Fahamu Africa has provided an analysis platform of coherent knowledge frameworks on Africa’s engagement with actors such as Read More
The Heinrich Boll Stiftung (HBS) is a governance international non-governmental organization keen to promote democracy and human rights. HBS is an affiliate of the Green Party, which is a German political party.
The HBS East and Horn Africa office based in Nairobi has in the past hosted dialogue platforms between African civil society leaders, Chinese researcher and policy makers in the evolving discourse on China-Africa cooperation.
The platform has in the past offered field visits to researchers and policy practitioners for learning and analysis on new and evolving development models emerging from China-Africa cooperation. (HBS China, 2014)
Website: https://ke.boell.org/categories/international-dialogue
Oxfam International is an international non-governmental development organization whose core mandate is poverty alleviation and promotion of equality across all aspects of life. As a non-governmental development organization, Oxfam International has a dedicated policy and research component, which informs the organization’s rights-based approach to development practice and campaigns.
Through their policy and research component and in collaboration with the Oxfam African Union Office based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Oxfam International in March of 2016 launched the Africa-China Dialogue Platform (ACDP). The objective of the ACDP is to promote and facilitate meaningful and constructive policy dialogue and partnership between Chinese and African citizens, policy researchers and stakeholders.
The ACDP is keen to Read More
China House is a relatively new start up NGO whose core mandate is to “integrate the Chinese into Africa.” China House as an organization is keen to harness African based Chinese business’ corporate social responsibility capacities for social integration in African communities. (Li, 2015; Liu, 2016)
Website: http://www.chinagoingout.org/
The Sino Africa Centre of Excellence (SACE) Foundation is a Nairobi based Think Tank whose core mandate is to promote China-Africa economic exchanges through trade and investment. SACE operates as a one-stop advisory shop cum applied Think Tank for either Chinese business interests in Africa or African business interests in China. In line with this objective SACE also offers work placements for university graduates from China and Africa.
SACE’s flagship research publication was the “China Business Perception Index: Survey on Chinese Companies’ Perception of Doing Business in Kenya,” which sought to understand the attributes of Chinese companies in Kenya and how the business environment and culture impacted on their productivity. Read More
University of the Witwatersrand’s department of Journalism hosts the Wits China Africa Reporting Project. The project was initiated in 2009 through a funding grant from the Open Society Foundation. The mandate of the project is to enhance both the quality and quantity of journalistic reporting on China in view of its rise and influence in Africa. The Project continues to address issues around the many myths, uncertainties and generally poor reporting of the role of China in Africa, not just in economic spheres but also in such other fields as politics, diplomacy, and the environment. The objective of the project is to promote objective and balanced reporting on China-Africa Read More
Voted as the leading sub-Saharan think tank five consecutive times (2009-2013), the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) is a centre for research excellence on South Africa’s and Africa’s international relations along the themes of social development, foreign policy, governance and economic policy.
SAIIA’s research and analyses on South-South cooperation on trade, development, politics and diplomacy, includes its China-in-Africa research project that has also generated the China-Africa fact sheet and the China-Africa toolkit, the later being a continental research catalogue of bilateral relationship between African countries and China. In collaboration with Global Economic Governance (GEG) Africa and Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS) International, SAIIA has as well developed Read More
The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) was founded in 1988 as a centre committed to promoting economic policy research and economic policy research capacities in Africa for better economic management in sub-Saharan Africa. The AERC has made analyses on the impact of China-Africa economic engagement on some East, West and Central African countries, which it has published as policy briefs. (AERC, 2016; Carayannis & Olin, 2012)
Website: http://aercafrica.org/
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) traces its roots back in the early 1970s as the premiere pan-African social science organization committed to social science research analysis and cataloguing. (Bujra, 2003; Carayannis & Olin, 2012; CODESRIA, 2016)
In its mandate to promote the holistic and multidisciplinary production of African knowledge through social science research, CODESRIA is committed to filling the knowledge gaps in the Sino-Africa discourse. (Carayannis & Olin, 2012; CODESRIA, 2016)
Website: http://www.codesria.org/spip.php?